| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England. By Michael J. Connolly. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xii, 210 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1499-1.)

This book, a revision of a recent doctoral thesis on entrepreneurial politics and railroad development, offers useful contributions to debates over the market revolution and capitalist transformation in antebellum New England. It explores politics, economic ideas, and party differences over economic development, and it seeks to offer an interpretation that transcends the distinction some historians have made between market and nonmarket ideologies. I must declare an interest: I have been associated with the "moral economy" perspective on early American development with which Dr. Michael J. Connolly takes issue.

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