| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. By Robert G. Angevine. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xx, 351 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-8047-4239-1.)

This fine work of scholarship has a misleading title. Robert G. Angevine does not come close to exploring the full range of interactions between railroads and governments in nineteenth-century America. Rather, he focuses upon relations between railroads and the United States military. Angevine is concerned in particular with the ways the military influenced construction of lines during the first half of the nineteenth century, with the administration of railroads during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and with the symbiosis that emerged between railroads and the military in the Northwest following the Civil War. On these topics, he writes with great clarity and command, offering a stream of valuable insights derived from a truly impressive range of primary and secondary sources.

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