Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865-1917

by Gerald Berk and Professor Gerald Berk

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801846560
• ISBN13: 9780801846564
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.