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- Railroads / History, United States / General
- Level
- Business
- ISBN
- 9780521001069
- Subject Area
- Transportation, History
- Publication Name
- Regulating Railroad Innovation : Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 19.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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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 involved disputes over the appropriateness and desirability of particular technologies. For nearly a century, railroad technology persistently posed novel challenges for Americans, prompting them to reexamine their most cherished institutions and beliefs. Covering a now neglected aspect of American history, Usselman traces their myriad struggles in rich detail.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521001064
ISBN-13
9780521001069
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1872450
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Publication Name
Regulating Railroad Innovation : Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920
Language
English
Subject
Railroads / History, United States / General
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Transportation, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2001-043216
Reviews
"Steven W. Usselman's Regulating Railroad Innovation is a meticulously researched, carefully written, and long-awaited study of innovation in American railroading...His is a contextual account that captures the interactions of railroads with historical processes, resulting in a rich and mulitlayered narrative." Business History Review, "[T]his book sheds important new light on the interplay of technical change, business innovation, and political influence...it is both informative and compelling in illuminating an elusive subject." Journal of Interdisciplinary History, "Usselman offers a fascinating account of he history of the early development of the railroad in the US and the pressures to innovate.... The many excellent stories and several photos included illustrate several of the railroad's innovations during this era. Recommended." Choice, "...a superb study of technological innovation in the first century of railroading. Both a deep analysis of the changing pattern and style of railroad innovation and a broad consideration of its relationship to the development of American society, Usselman imbeds technology in a richly detailed history in which contingency and social choice play central roles. The book's focus on innovation and its analysis of the connections between technological change and economic, social, and political conditions are original and make it the most important study of the rise and development of the modern corporation since Alfred Chandler's The Visible Hand. The book deepens as well our understanding of American political economy." 2003 OAH Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony, "egulating Railroad Innovation is a pathbreaking fusion of the histories of technology, business, and politics. As no historian has ever done before, Usselman demonstrates the complex interactin of these forces, and does so for a topic as tangled as any in American history: the almost unbelievably intractable subject of railroading during the years 1840 to 1920." Thomas K. McCraw, Harvard Business School, "Usselman uses his subject, technological innovation in railroading, as a jumping off point for a comprehensive and stunningly original treatment of American business and political, as well as technological, history from the second quarter of the nineteenth century until World War I. The result is so impressive that, if I were asked to recommend a single book on this period of American history, I would now unhesitatingly pick this one." Naomi R. Lamoreaux, University of California, Los Angeles, 'The authors's interdisciplinary stance has enabled him to demonstrate the nature of the interelations and interactions which have taken place between the various elements of the railroad system and to present us with an holist view of the railroad industry. Such an exceptionally detailed and well researched study is uncommon. Its high order of scholarship, and combination of breadth and assiduity, enables the author to make an original, stimulating and valuable contribution to the field of contemporary business history.' Economic History Review, 'This superb book should be required reading for anyone with the slightest interest in understanding the transformation of the United States from its predominantly rural condition in the mid-nineteenth century to the urbanized and industrial society found in the immediate aftermath of the First World War … Usselman's magisterial command of the sweep of American political debate on technology over the best part of a century brilliantly contextualizes his myriad detailed insights into the evolution of the railroad machine. This book deserves to become a classic text on American history in the modern period.' Journal of Urban History, "...the book contains valuable insights on the sources and nature of technological change....The casae study of how these networks evaluated and helped improve and diffuse new rail technology around the turn of the twentieth century is nicely done and emphasizes the importance of incremental technological improvements in productivity growth." Journal of Economic History, 'For those interested in the questions of innovation and technological adaptation and adoption in late nineteenth-century railroads, they will find much to consider.' Business History, "This will stand as an important work, not only in the history of technology and economic and business history but in American history in general for years to come." EH.NET, 'Such an exceptionally detailed and well-researched study is uncommon. Its high order of scholarship, and its combination of breadth and assiduity, enable [Usselman] to make an original, stimulating, and valuable contribution to the field of contemporary business history.' The Economic History Review, 'Regulating Railroad Innovation is an awesome volume. Steven Usselman displays the skills of a craftsman in weaving together an interdisciplinary story that shows how technology is central to understanding the development of the world's leading industrializing economy.' American Nineteenth Century History, 'This superb book should be required reading for anyone with the slightest interest in understanding the transformation of the United States from its predominantly rural condition in the mid-nineteenth century to the urbanized and industrial society found in the immediate aftermath of the First World War ... Usselman's magisterial command of the sweep of American political debate on technology over the best part of a century brilliantly contextualizes his myriad detailed insights into the evolution of the railroad machine. This book deserves to become a classic text on American history in the modern period.' Journal of Urban History, "Steven Usselman describes the was in which young America's political values and mature America's engineering genius shaped railroad innovation. Masterfully mixing middle-level generalizations and encompassing detail, his history of railroading ranges from an early era of dynamic change to a recent one of stasis." Thomas P. Hughes, University of Pennsylvania, author of Rescuing Prometheus
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
385.097309034
Lc Classification Number
Tf23 .U58 2002
Table of Content
Part I. Assembling the Machine, 1840-76: 1. Engines of expansion and extraction: the politics of development; 2. Acquiring technology: insider innovation; 3. Patent problems: inventors and the market for technology; Part II. Running the Machine, 1876-1904: 4. Patent remedies: politics, jurisprudence, and procedure; 5. Mastering technology, channeling change; 6. Standardizing steel rails: engineered innovation; 7. Engineering enshrined; Part III. Friction in the Machine, 1904-20: 8. Reluctant innovators: the annoying allure of automatic train control; 9. The limits of engineering: rate regulation and the course of innovation; Epilogue: the enduring challenge of innovation.
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2002
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