| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. By Amy G. Richter. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xvi, 272 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2926-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5591-X.)

In Home on the Rails, Amy G. Richter takes on an intriguing subject: the relationship between early railroad travel and gender norms. The new form of transportation moved people faster and more efficiently than they had ever been moved before and, as is well-known, created a cascading series of unforeseen changes in manifold areas of social life. Particularly significant for the purposes of Richter's study is the fact that the growing popularity of the railroad in the antebellum years was reshaping the public sphere at precisely the same moment when the private sphere of the home was enjoying its greatest prestige, thus ensuring that there would be mutual influences.

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