| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Robert G. Angevine. The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2004. Pp. xvii, 351. $65.00.
Robert G. Angevine's book would be more accurately titled The Railroads and the Army. Angevine describes the relationship between the army and railroads in terms of a series of developmental phases. From the earliest rail construction up to the end of the 1820s, West Point produced surveyors and railroad engineers who played important roles in the growth of railroad companies. From that point until the Civil War, the army lost interest in railroads. The Civil War saw the beginning of army-railroad cooperation in response to belated recognition of the strategic importance of rail transport. Following the war, the army and the railroads in the West developed a relationship of "symbiosis," in which the army provided security in return for cheap transportation.	1
Across this chronology of development, Avengine tells three different stories, with varying degrees of success. The first consists of a finely crafted, thoroughly researched, well-written account of the development of the U.S. Army officer corps and military attitudes toward a new mode of transportation. Angevine is at his best here. His accounts of the jockeying for position within the military bureaucracy and its consequences for army rail policy have important lessons for military history, and for today. One is left to wonder what lessons might be drawn for current debates about reforming the military organization, the military procurement system, and the defense intelligence establishment.	. . .

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