Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840 1920. By Steven W. Usselman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 398. $65.00 cloth;$25.00, paper.

Abstract

As its title suggests, the focus of this work is on the process and context of railroad innovation rather than its economic causes and consequences. The book reflects a wide reading in both primary and relevant secondary sources and the author s extensive use of the corporate records of the Pennsylvania and Burlington railroads.