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Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920 Book

Efforts to create and mold new technologies have been a central, recurrent feature of the American experience since at least the time of the Revolution. Many of the most tumultuous events in the nation's history have, at their core, involved disputes over the appropriateness and desirability of particular technologies. In Regulating Railroad Innovation, historian Steven Usselman brings this neglected aspect of American History to light. For nearly a century, railroad technology persistently posed novel challenges for Americans, prompting them to reexamine their most cherished institutions and beliefs. Usselman traces their myriad struggles in rich detail.Read More

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  • 0521001064
  • 9780521001069
  • Steven W. Usselman
  • 11 March 2002
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 414
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