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Regulating railroad innovation: business, technology, and politics in America, 1840-1920

Steven W. Usselman
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page viii)
  • Preface and Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART I. ASSEMBLING THE MACHINE, 1840-1876 (page 13)
    • 1 Engines of Expansion and Extractions: The Politics of Development (page 15)
    • 2 Acquiring Technology: Insider Innovation (page 61)
    • 3 Patent Problems: Inventors and the Market for Technology (page 97)
  • PART II. RUNNING THE MACHINE, 1876-1904 (page 141)
    • 4 Patent Remedies: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Procedure (page 143)
    • 5 Mastering Technology, Channeling Change (page 177)
    • 6 Standardizing Steel Rails: Engineered Innovation (page 215)
    • 7 Engineering Enshrined (page 242)
  • PART III. FRICTION IN THE MACHINE, 1904-1920 (page 269)
    • 8 Reluctant Innovators: The Annoying Allure of Automatic Train Control (page 273)
    • 9 The Limits of Engineering: Rate Regulation and the Course of Innovation (page 327)
  • Epilogue: The Enduring Challenge of Innovation (page 381)
  • Index (page 389)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
BHR 77.2 (Summer 2003): 297-300 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30041147
AJLH 46.4 (Oct. 2004): 504-505 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3692410
JAH 90.2 (Sep. 2003): 661-662 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3659503
JEL 41.4 (Dec. 2003): 1319-1321 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3217497
TC 45.1 (Jan. 2004): 159-161 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40060587
JEH 63.1 (Mar. 2003): 277-279 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3132523
EnS 5.2 (Jun. 2004): 334-336 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/enterprise_and_society/v005/5.2sicilia.html
JIH 34.3 (Winter 2004): 476-477 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history/v034/34.3klein.html
Citable Link
Published: c2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780511102561 (ebook)
  • 9780521806367 (hardcover)
  • 9780521001069 (paper)
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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