Book Reviews By Subject (Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services)

Subject:
Economic Planning and Policy
Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc
Siegelbaum, Lewis H.
Patterson, Perry L.
Economic Planning and Policy
Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Europe
Mar 21, 2012

Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825-1862
Miner, Craig H.
Malone, Laurence J.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Jun 23, 2011
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
Maurer, Noel
Yu, Carlos
Arroyo Abad, Leticia
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Historical Geography
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
North America
Jun 22, 2011
When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America
Nye, David E.
Neufeld, John
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Mar 1, 2011
Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson
Kelley, Blair L. M.
Moreno, Paul
Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Oct 14, 2010
Tracks Across Continents, Paths through History: The Economic Dynamics of Standardization in Railway Gauge
Puffert, Douglas J.
Bogart, Dan
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Oct 12, 2010
Two Centuries of Solidarity: German, Belgian, and Dutch Social Health Insurance, 1770-2008
Companje, K.P.
Hendriks, R.H.M.
Veraghtert, K.F.E.
Widdershoven, B.E.M.
Murray, John E.
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Europe
Sep 30, 2010
Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War.
Egnal, Marc
McGuire, Robert A.
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Servitude and Slavery
Military and War
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Aug 24, 2010
Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878-2007
Hausman, William J.
Hertner, Peter
Wilkins, Mira
Edelstein, Michael
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
May 3, 2010
The Rise and Fall of the American System: Nationalism and the Development of the American Economy, 1800-1837
Ha, Songho
Wahl, Jenny
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Mar 23, 2010
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Stiles, T. J.
Whaples, Robert
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Dec 30, 2009
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
Leeson, Peter T.
, Peter
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
18th Century
North America
Oct 2, 2009
Across the Borders: Financing the World's Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Roth, Ralf
Dinhobl, Gunter
Bogart, Dan
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Sep 21, 2009
Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
Franch, John
Whaples, Robert
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Jul 1, 2009
Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945
Chick, Martin
Neufeld, John
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jun 1, 2009
Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market
Clarke, Sally H.
Offer, Avner
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Apr 28, 2009
Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940
Bakker, Gerben
Pokorny, Michael
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Apr 27, 2009
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
Weinberg, Steve
McCannon, Bryan C.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Jan 19, 2009
Heat, Power and Light: Revolutions in Energy Services
Fouquet, Roger
Smil, Vaclav
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Medieval
Europe
Dec 29, 2008
East Meets West: Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire
Cottrell, Philip L.
Fraser, Monica Pohle
Fraser, Iain L.
Cosgel, Metin
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
Middle East
Dec 18, 2008
The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization
Wiley, James
Bucheli, Marcelo
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Oct 1, 2008
Quantitative Economic History: The Good of Counting
Rosenbloom, Joshua L.
Hansen, Mary Eschelbach
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Sep 25, 2008
Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
Siegelbaum, Lewis H.
Patterson, Perry L.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Europe
Aug 5, 2008
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
Norton, Peter D.
Troesken, Werner
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Aug 4, 2008
Troubled Waters: Steamboats, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860
Paskoff, Paul F.
Allen, Michael
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Aug 3, 2008
Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century
Oliver, Michael J.
Aldcroft, Derek H.
Rockoff, Hugh
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Jun 7, 2008
Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad
Grant, H. Roger
Beck, Bill
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Apr 5, 2008
From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity
Munson, Richard
Sicilia, David B.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jan 19, 2008
Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia
Schocket, Andrew M.
Adams, Sean Patrick
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Jul 18, 2007
Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants
Barry, Kathleen M.
Howard, Vicki
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jun 28, 2007
Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950
Williamson, Jeffrey G.
Pamuk, Sevket
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Jun 24, 2007
The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
Rose, Mark H.
Seely, Bruce E.
Barrett, Paul F.
Childs, William R.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
May 24, 2007
The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age
Mom, Gijs
Hultén, Staffan H
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Mar 27, 2007
Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870
Taylor, James
Michie, Ranald C.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
Europe
Mar 11, 2007
Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
Perelman, Michael
Vedder, Richard
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jan 18, 2007
The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c. 1550-1630
Lesger, Clé L
Neal, Larry
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
17th Century
Europe
Jan 11, 2007
Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840
Perren, Richard
Craig, Lee A.
, Lee
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Dec 19, 2006
The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-century France and England
Pedley, Mary Sponberg
Danforth, Susan
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
18th Century
North America
Nov 15, 2006
Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920
Thiesen, William H.
Sicotte, Richard
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Nov 2, 2006
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy
Fishlow, Albert
Majewski, John
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Sep 24, 2006
Estadísticas históricas de España: Siglos XIX - XX
Carreras, Albert
Tafunell, Xavier
Drelichman, Mauricio
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Europe
Aug 15, 2006
Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
Lubetkin, M. John
Fender, Ann Harper
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Jul 23, 2006
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
Ruddiman, William F.
Whaples, Robert
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
General or Comparative
General, International, or Comparative
Jul 20, 2006
The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive and Industrial Enterprise
Whitten, David O.
Whitten, Bessie E.
Mason, David L.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Jul 2, 2006
Historical Statistics of the United States, Volume Four: Economic Sectors
Carter, Susan B.
Gartner, Scott Sigmund
Haines, Michael R.
Olmstead, Alan L.
Sutch, Richard
Wright, Gavin
Alston, Lee J.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jun 25, 2006
The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century
Childs, William R.
Libecap, Gary
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Mar 2, 2006
Private and Public Enterprises in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990
Millward, Robert
Toninelli, Pier Angelo
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Europe
Feb 19, 2006
Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990
Bukowczyk, John J.
Faires, Nora
Smith, David R.
, David
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jan 19, 2006
Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective
Lindberg, Michael
Todd, Daniel
Tassava, Christopher
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Nov 6, 2005
Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-century Makassar
Knaap, Gerrit
Sutherland, Heather
Prakash, Om
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
18th Century
Asia
Oct 30, 2005
The Rexall Story: A History of Genius and Neglect
Smith, Mickey C.
Fischbaum, Marvin
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Sep 10, 2005
La conexión cubana: Narcotráfico, contrabando y juego en Cuba entre los años 20 y comienzos de la Revolución
Rovner, Eduardo Saenz
McGreevey, William
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Aug 21, 2005
Order against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913
Summerhill, William
Fishlow, Albert
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Aug 2, 2005
The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
Kinney, Thomas A.
Dicke, Tom
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Jul 31, 2005
L'électricité en réseaux: Networks of Power
Hughes, Thomas
Neufeld, John
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jun 21, 2005
The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
Angevine, Robert G.
Surdam, David
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Mar 23, 2005
Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970
Gilbert, Erik
Sheriff, Abdul
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Asia
Feb 8, 2005
How Cartels Endure and How They Fail: Studies of Industrial Collusion
Grossman, Peter Z.
Sicotte, Richard
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jan 24, 2005
Oil and Development in Venezuela during the 20th Century
Salazar-Carrillo, Jorge
West, Bernadette
Rubio, M. del Mar
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Nov 17, 2004
The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad
Mohowski, Robert E.
Grant, H. Roger
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Nov 11, 2004
Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920
Usselman, Steven W.
Schramm, Jeff
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Sep 13, 2004
The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
Starr, Paul
Galbi, Douglas
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Sep 8, 2004
Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat
Clark Jr., John E.
Adams, Sean Patrick
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
May 25, 2004
Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002
Saunders Jr., Richard
Childs, William R.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Apr 8, 2004
Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909
Singer, Jonathan W.
Troesken, Werner
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Jan 8, 2004
Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893
Munro, J. Forbes
White, Nicholas J.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
Middle East
Oct 15, 2003
Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization
Roberts, William H.
Surdam, David
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Sep 1, 2003
Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
Gorman, Hugh S.
Castaneda, Christopher J.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Aug 16, 2003
Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry
Linden, F. Robert van der
Dunn-Haley, Karen
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
May 27, 2003
A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing
Benson, John
Ugolini, Laura
Alexander, Nicholas
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
Europe
May 13, 2003
Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft
Oliver, Michael J.
Ranieri, Ruggero
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jan 27, 2003
The State, Regulation and the Economy: An Historical Perspective
Magnusson, Lar
Ottosson, Jan
Kanazawa, Mark
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Jul 2, 2002
British Petroleum and Global Oil, 1950-1975: The Challenge of Nationalism
Bamberg, James
Brown, Jonathan
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
General, International, or Comparative
Mar 3, 2002
Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900-1970
Saunders Jr., Richard
Huneke, William
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Feb 19, 2002
To Wire the World: Perry M. Collins and the North Pacific Telegraph Expedition
Dwyer, John B.
Nonnenmacher, Tomas
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Jan 13, 2002
Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War
Surdam, David G.
Ransom, Roger L.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Nov 13, 2001
Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Larson, John Lauritz
Majewski, John
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Jul 22, 2001
Making Connections: The Long-distance Bus Industry in the USA
Walsh, Margaret
Singleton, John
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Feb 15, 2001
Railways in Britain and the United States 1830-1940
Channon, Geoffrey
Churella, Albert J.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Jan 9, 2001
Airline Executives and Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from the Airmail Era to the Dawn of the Jet Age
Lewis, W. David
Tarry, Scott E.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Oct 25, 2000
Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade, and the Railways, 1917-1924
Heywood, Anthony
Hayward, Oliver
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
Europe
Sep 14, 2000
The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy
Gibson, Andrew
Donovan, Arthur
Boyce, Gordon
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Sep 10, 2000
The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman
Klein, Maury
Churella, Albert J.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Aug 28, 2000
Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History
Fogel, Robert W.
Davis, Lance
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Jun 30, 2000
Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the South
Thomas, William G.
Childs, William R.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
May 8, 2000
Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System
Mueller, Milton L.
Kraft, Jeff
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Feb 11, 1999
From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
Churella, Albert J.
Scranton, Philip
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Jan 6, 1999
Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860
Malone, Laurence J.
Wallis, John Joseph
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Oct 22, 1998

Subject:
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Historical Geography
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism
Heinrich, Thomas R.
Brown, John K.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: Pre WWII
North America
Aug 11, 1997

Subject:
Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
Sheriff, Carol
Laurent, Jerome K.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
19th Century
North America
Jul 13, 1997

Subject:
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Cities of Heat and Light: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America
Rose, Mark
Castaneda, Christopher J.
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
Aug 20, 1995

Subject:
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Servitude and Slavery
Military and War
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

The Gas Station in America
Jakle, John A.
Sculle, Kieth A.
Dicke, Tom
Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII
North America
May 15, 1995