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Transportation, Travel, and Exploration

 

Allan, Chris, “The Brief Life and Strange Times of the Hickel Highway: Alaska’s First Arctic Haul Road,” Alaska History, 24 (Fall 2009), 1–29.

Churella, Albert J., “Delivery to the Customer’s Door: Efficiency, Regulatory Policy, and Integrated Rail-Truck Operations, 1900–1938,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 98–136.

Cohen, Jim, “Divergent Paths, United States, and France: Capital Markets, the State, and Differentiation in Transportation Systems, 1840–1940,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 449–97.

Hamilton, Shane, “The Populist Appeal of Deregulation: Independent Truckers and the Politics of Free Enterprise, 1935–1980,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 137–77.

Kopp, Peter, “By Rail and by Road: Nevada Landscapes in Women’s Transcontinental Travelogues, 1873–1920,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 52 (Spring 2009), 3–32.

Levinson, Marc, “Two Cheers for Discrimination: Deregulation and Efficiency in the Reform of U.S. Freight Transportation, 1976–1998,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 178–215.

Morser, Eric John, “Hinterland Dreams and Midwestern Rails: Public Power and Railroading in Nineteenth-Century La Crosse, Wisconsin,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 376–410.

Newland, Paul, “Look Past the Violence: Automotive Destruction in American Movies,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 1, 2009), 5–20.

Puschendorf, L. Robert, “Two Trails of the Twentieth Century: John C. Nicholson and Newton, Kansas,” Kansas History, 32 (Autumn 2009), 154–67. Heavily illustrated.

Robinson, Michael F., “Why We Need a New History of Exploration: Lewis and Clark, Alexander von Humboldt, and the Explorer in American Culture,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.

Rose, Mark, “The Political Economy of American Transportation,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 90–97.

 

Burke, James C., “North Carolina’s First Railroads, a Study in Historical Geography” (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2008). Order No. DA3338740.

Frank, Jerritt James, “Marketing the Mountains: An Environmental History of Tourism in Rocky Mountain National Park” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3336872.

Mackie, Steven Wade, “Travel as Education for Ecophilia: A Rural Teacher Educator’s Thought Experiment” (University of Oklahoma, 2008). Order No. DA3337126.

Tiemeyer, Philip James, “Manhood Up in the Air: Gender, Sexuality, Corporate Culture, and the Law in Twentieth Century America” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3345887.

 

Hyde, Charles K., Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. xviii, 307 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8143-3446-1.) Heavily illustrated.

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