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Another Wreck on the New Haven: Accidents, Risk Perception, and the Stigmatization of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 1911–1914
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- Social Science History / Volume 39 / Issue 4 / Winter 2015
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- 01 December 2015, pp. 613-646
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The Great Sidetrack War: In Which Downtown Merchants and the Philadelphia North American Defeat the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1903–19041
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- The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Volume 13 / Issue 4 / October 2014
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- 24 October 2014, pp. 500-531
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- October 2014
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On the Track of Efficiency: Scientific Management Comes to Railroad Shops, 1900–1930
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- Business History Review / Volume 84 / Issue 3 / Autumn 2010
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- 14 April 2011, pp. 501-526
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- Autumn 2010
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Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age. By John C. Burnham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. viii + 336 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-08177-5.
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- Business History Review / Volume 84 / Issue 4 / Winter 2010
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- 14 April 2011, pp. 836-838
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- Winter 2010
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Paul F. Paskoff. Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xvii + 324 pp. ISBN 978-0-8071-3268-5, $48.00 (cloth).
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- Enterprise & Society / Volume 9 / Issue 4 / December 2008
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 841-843
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Running Out of Steam: Federal Inspection and Locomotive Safety, 1912–1940
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- The Journal of Economic History / Volume 67 / Issue 4 / December 2007
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- 01 December 2007, pp. 884-916
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- December 2007
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The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. By Werner Troesken. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. x + 318 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures, appendix. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-262-20167-4.
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- Business History Review / Volume 81 / Issue 3 / Autumn 2007
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- 13 December 2011, pp. 581-583
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- Autumn 2007
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TMI Twenty Five Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and its Impact. By Bonnie A. Osif, Anthony J. Baratta, and Thomas W. Conking. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 158. $24.95.
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- The Journal of Economic History / Volume 65 / Issue 1 / March 2005
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- 15 March 2005, pp. 268-269
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- March 2005
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Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840–1920. By Steven W. Usselman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 398. $65.00 cloth; $25.00, paper.
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- The Journal of Economic History / Volume 63 / Issue 1 / March 2003
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- 11 March 2003, pp. 277-279
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- March 2003
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The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865–1914. By Nancy Cohen. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 318. $22.50, paper.
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- The Journal of Economic History / Volume 62 / Issue 3 / September 2002
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- 11 October 2002, pp. 894-895
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- September 2002
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Regulating Transportation of Hazardous Substances: Railroads and Reform, 1883–1930
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- Business History Review / Volume 76 / Issue 2 / Summer 2002
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- 13 December 2011, pp. 267-297
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- Summer 2002
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My Sisters Telegraphic. By Thomas C. Jepsen. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 231. $49.96, cloth; $21.95, paper.
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- The Journal of Economic History / Volume 61 / Issue 2 / June 2001
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- 13 August 2001, pp. 564-565
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- June 2001
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The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. By Sara E. Wermiel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. viii + 301 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86311-2.
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- Business History Review / Volume 75 / Issue 1 / Spring 2001
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- 13 December 2011, pp. 202-204
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- Spring 2001
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Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870–1920. By Roy Rosenzweig. Cambridge, London, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 304. $29.95.
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- The Journal of Economic History / Volume 44 / Issue 3 / September 1984
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 903-904
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- September 1984
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Determinants of Mortality Among New England Cotton Mill Workers During the Progressive Era
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- The Journal of Economic History / Volume 42 / Issue 4 / December 1982
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 847-863
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- December 1982
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Flexible Exchange Rates, Northern Expansion, and the Market for Southern Cotton: 1866–1879
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- The Journal of Economic History / Volume 33 / Issue 2 / June 1973
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- 11 May 2010, pp. 399-416
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- June 1973
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Earnings of American Civil Engineers 1820–1859
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- The Journal of Economic History / Volume 31 / Issue 2 / June 1971
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- 11 May 2010, pp. 407-419
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- June 1971
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Rates of Return Earned on Investment in Formal Technical Education in the Ante-Bellum American Economy
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- The Journal of Economic History / Volume 30 / Issue 1 / March 1970
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- 03 February 2011, pp. 251-255
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- March 1970
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