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Enterprise and Society 2006 7(3):581-591; doi:10.1093/es/khl012
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Company, State, and Region: Three Approaches to Railroad History

Albert Churella

Southern Polytechnic State University

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Don L. Hofsommer. The Tootin’ Louie: A History of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xvi + 374 pp. ISBN 0-8166-4366-0, $39.95 (paper).

Don L. Hofsommer. Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland: Iowa’s Railroad Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xiii + 349 pp. ISBN 0-253-34515-4, $75.00.

Don L. Hofsommer. Minneapolis and the Age of Railways. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xiii + 337 pp. ISBN 0-8166-4501-9, $39.95.

Railroad history has survived a near-death experience. Once at the leading edge of business history and the Chandlerian synthesis, this sub-discipline largely fell out of favor with academic audiences, becoming the province of the railfan. In recent years, however, a new generation of historians has reawakened interest in the railroads, often by adopting perspectives alien to the traditions of first-generation railroad history. A prolific Don Hofsommer has not only . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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