Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Berens, Charlyne, and Nancy Mitchell, “Parallel Tracks, Same Terminus: The Role of Nineteenth-Century Newspapers and Railroads in the Settlement of Nebraska,” Great Plains Quarterly, 29 (Fall 2009), 287–300.
Cohen, Jim, “Divergent Paths, United States and France: Capital Markets, the State, and Differentiation in Transportation Systems, 1840–1940,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (Sept. 2009), 449–97.
Correia, David, “Taking Timber, Earth, and Water: The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Struggle for New Mexico’s Land Grants,” Natural Resources Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 949–62.
Troitskaia, L. M., “Predstaviteli kontinental’noi Evropy o SShA pervoi poloviny XIX v.: Svidetel’stva ochvidtsev (po materialam zhurnala ‘The North American Review’)” (The United States as seen by continental European travellers in the 19th century: From materials of “The North American Review”), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 35–54. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.
Harinck, George, Mijn reis was geboden: Abraham Kuypers Amerikaanse tournee (My journey was necessary: Abraham Kuyper’s American tour). (Verloren: Hilversum, 2009. 192 pp. €19,00, isbn 978-9-0870-4128-1.)
Janin, Hunt, and Ursula Carlson, Trails of Historic New Mexico: Routes Used by Indian, Spanish, and American Travelers through 1886. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. viii, 223 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-4010-8.)
Veenendaal, Guus, ed., with H. Roger Grant, Een Amsterdammer in Amerika 1866–1867: Verslag van de reis van Claude August Crommelin door de Verenigde Staten en Canada (An Amsterdam citizen in America, 1866–1867: Report of the journey of Claude August Crommelin through the United States and Canada). (Amsterdam: De Bataafsche Leeuw, 2009. 178 pp. €19,95, isbn 978-9-0670-7647-0.)
Kornweibel, Theodore, Jr., Railroads in the African American Experience: A Photographic Journey. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xvi, 557 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9162-5.) Heavily illustrated.
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