Alternative Tracks by Gerald Berk

Alternative Tracks by Gerald Berk

Alternative Tracks reveals a nineteenth-century rival to this political economy-an equally efficient and more democratic system of regional railroads regulated according to republican principles.

A lean but provocative, timely, insightful, and forcefully written challenge to the conventional wisdom about industrial America's political economy-- Ellis W. Hawley Review of Politics [A] model of sophisticated social science history... Berk forcefully rebuts the assumption found in nearly all historical accounts that the railroad structure that developed was inevitable... As effectively as anyone has, he makes a formidable case that it could have been otherwise. -- William Roy Contemporary Sociology Berk has offered some powerful questions for future scholars to keep in mind, and no student of railroad history or the history of business can afford to overlook this book. -- Mark Wahlgren Summers American Historical Review An ambitious effort to make sense of how the modern American state was fashioned. -- Richard A. Harris American Political Science Review Berk's concise volume... provides a reinterpretation along corporate liberal lines of the factors leading to the rise of the great interregional railroad systems in America during latter half of the nineteenth century. -- Paul J. Miranti Business History Review

Gerald Berk is associate professor of political science at the University of Oregon.

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ISBN 13	9780801856365
ISBN 10	0801856361
Title	Alternative Tracks
Author	Gerald Berk
Series	The Johns Hopkins Series In Constitutional Thought
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published	1997-09-17
Number of pages	256
Prizes	Winner of American Political Science Association Politics and History Section: J. David Greenstone Award 1995 (United States)
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