| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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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. xvii + 351 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00.)

The Railroad and the State is an exemplary monograph. Combining prodigious research and crisp prose, historian Robert Angevine provides a cogent analysis of the complex relationship between domestic railroads and the U. S. Army in the nineteenth century. The author uses this relationship to illuminate a number of subjects, including the origins of military-industrial-academic cooperation, responses to technological change, and the political evolution of the United States. In so doing, he showcases the broader historical significance of the technological, environmental, and industrial development of the American frontier.

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