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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Michael J. Connolly. Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England. (Shades of Blue and Gray Series.) Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 210. $44.95.

Michael J. Connolly's short book is about the controversy over railroad construction in an area bounded by Boston and Salem, Massachusetts in the south, and Concord, Manchester, and other New Hampshire towns north of the Merrimack River. A debate, which he reconstructs largely from newspapers and the politics of the New Hampshire state legislature, unfolded between Whigs who championed railroad development without equivocation, and Jacksonian Democrats who resisted the taking of private land for railroad rights of way. Whig politicians of Boston and Salem reacted to the decline of sea trade by advocating more railroad construction from their towns to the west, including lines that crossed over into New Hampshire. The taking of land for railroad track could be justified, said the Whigs, as being in the public interest. Resistance to this came from a vocal group of "radicals" in New Hampshire who said that a private corporation could in no way represent the public interest, and that construction of railroads in New Hampshire would simply put trade in their towns under the private control of Whig capitalists from Boston.

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