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Article: Angevine, Robert G.: The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2005
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Angevine, Robert G. The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press 368 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-8047-4239-1 Publication Date: July 2004
Much has been written on the development of the railroad in the United States as an economically transforming enterprise of the nineteenth century. Other works cover the evolution of the U.S. Army during the same time. Robert G. Angevine, a research analyst at the Strategic Assessment Center (SAIC) who also serves as an adjunct assistant professor at George Mason University and American University, has woven the two together in a ground breaking study, ...