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9780801856365 Academic Inspection Copy

Alternative Tracks

The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865-1917
  • ISBN-13: 9780801856365
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Gerald Berk
  • Price: AUD $71.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/08/1997
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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Alternative Tracks provides a novel interpretation of industrialization and political development in the United States. Focusing on the critical case of railroads, Gerald Berk shows that alternative forms of economic organization and governmental regulation existed in the late nineteenth century. Constitutional choices, not technological imperatives or economic interests, determined the outcome in the twentieth century: a centralized industry regulated according to liberal principles of redistribution. 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.

""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.""

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