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The Railroad and the State
War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
Robert G. Angevine
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The Railroad and the State

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Introduction

1.Internal Improvements, the State, and the Military in the Early National Period, 1800-1827

2.The U.S. Military Academy and Engineering Expertise, 1802-1832

3.Railroads and the Rhetoric of National Defense, 1827-1838

4.Surveying the Railroads and the Military Approach to Industrial Development, 1827-1838

5.Railroads, Resignations, and the Rise of Military Professionalism, 1832-1848

6.A New Phase in the Relationship Between the Army and the Railroads, 1848-1861

7.The Civil War and the Beginning of Army-Railroad Cooperation, 1861-1865

8.Civilization, Concentration, and the Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, 1865-1870

9.The Fruits of Symbiotic Exchange, 1870-1898

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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