Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Benson, Erik, “Rivals of a Kind: The Anglo-American Commercial Aviation Rivalry, 1939–45,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 26 (2008), 103–15.
Bostanoglu, Bruce, “Amerika ve Osmanli’nin akdeniz’de Baslayan seyir defteri” (The logbook of America and the Ottomans’ beginning on the Mediterranean Sea), Dogu Bati: Düsünce Dergisi (Istanbul), 42 (June–Aug. 2007), 212–25. In Turkish.
Lankford, Kelly, “Arctic Explorer Robert E. Peary’s Other Quest: Money, Science, and the Year 1897,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (March 2008), 37–60.
Luff, Jennifer, “Surrogate Supervisors: Railway Spotters and the Origins of Workplace Surveillance,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Spring 2008), 47–74.
Özmen, Cansu Özmen, “19. yüzyil Amerikan–Osmanli iliskilerinin Amerikan yazinina etkisi ve seyahatnâmeler” (Nineteenth-century American-Ottoman relations’ influence on American literature and travelbooks), Dogu Bati: Düsünce Dergisi (Istanbul), 42 (June–Aug. 2007), 194–212. In Turkish.
Robinson, John W., “Phineas Banning: Southern California’s Transportation King and Port Admiral,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 72, Winter 2007), 4–25.
Stone, Richard D., and Michael Landry, “The Railroad Capacity Crisis: After Cutting to the Bone and More, Trains Are Back,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 26 (2008), 63–72.
Kennedy, Todd, “Hitting the American Highway: The Ontology of the Hobo-Hero in Twentieth-Century American Culture” (University of South Carolina, 2007). Order No. DA3280329.
Vogel, Andrew, “Narrating the Geography of Automobility: American Road Story, 1893–1921” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3264571.
Yandle, Paul D., “‘The Relapse of Reconstruction’: Railroad-Building, Party Warfare, and White Supremacy in Blue Ridge, North Carolina, 1854–1888” (West Virginia University, 2006). Order No. DA3275180.
Jonnes, Jill, Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xiv, 368 pp. Cloth, $27.95, isbn 978-0-670-03158-0. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-14-311324-9.)
Mauch, Christof, and Thomas Zeller, eds., The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1767-6. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1768-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Rhodes, Joel P., A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: The Life of Louis Houck. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 298 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1798-1.)
Schwantes, Carlos A., and James P. Ronda, The West the Railroads Made. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xxii, 229 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-295-98769-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Semsel, Craig R., Built to Move Millions: Streetcar Building in Ohio. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiv, 293 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-253-34985-9.) Heavily illustrated.
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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