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The railroad and the state : war, politics, and technology in nineteenth-century America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Angevine, Robert G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Railroads and state > United States > History > 19th century.
Railroads > Military aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army > History > 19th century.
Industrial mobilization > United States > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Internal improvements, the state, and the military in the early national period, 1800-1827
  • The U.S. Military Academy and engineering expertise, 1802-1832
  • Railroads and the rhetoric of national defense, 1827-1838
  • Surveying the railroads and the military approach to industrial development, 1827-1838
  • Railroads, resignations, and the rise of military professionalism, 1832-1848
  • A new phase in the relationship between the Army and the railroads, 1848-1861
  • The Civil War and the beginning of Army-railroad cooperation, 1861-1865
  • Civilization, concentration, and the construction of the transcontinental railroad, 1865-1870
  • The fruits of symbiotic exchange, 1870-1898.