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Bristling with original insights into the way federalism structured railroad development and national state building in the US, Railroads and American Political Development is a model of multi-method scholarship, which weaves statistical analysis and case studies into an elegant narrative. With this book, Zachary Callen joins a select group of eminent social scientists, who have taught us to see the relationship between Western industrialization and political development anew through careful study of the railroads. Gerald Berk, author of Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865 1917

Zachary Callen deftly probes the interface between federalism and the emergence of the railroad system in the antebellum era. He carefully traces the gradual shift away from state-centered railroad policy, pointing out that difficulties in promoting and coordinating railroads were common and induced western states to take the lead in calling for federal assistance. This volume casts welcome light on the nascent movement for federal control of the rail network and raises far-reaching questions about the nature of federalism in the American constitutional order. --<b>James W. Ely Jr, </b> author of <i>Railroads and American Law</i> We know a lot about American national state building. But Callen tells a story that puts the states and federalism front and center. It's a refreshing perspective on how national capacities are built through the actions and inactions of other levels and branches of government. --<b>Patricia Strach</b>, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration & Policy, University at Albany Bristling with original insights into the way federalism structured railroad development and national state building in the US, <i>Railroads and American Political Development </i> is a model of multi-method scholarship, which weaves statistical analysis and case studies into an elegant narrative. With this book, Zachary Callen joins a select group of eminent social scientists, who have taught us to see the relationship between Western industrialization and political development anew through careful study of the railroads. --<b>Gerald Berk</b>, author of <i>Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865-1917 </i> In this thoughtful new book, Zachary Callen reveals the politics of space at the center of America's antebellum railroad saga. The political energy of railroads played out in state legislatures, in Congress, and the tensions within and between them. An innovative reading of early American federalism, its limits and its long-run reverberations in American industrialization and political development. --<b>Daniel Carpenter</b>, Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University Zachary Callen employs geographical information to enhance and transform our understanding of the development of America's railroad system and its interconnections with American political development. An innovative and important work. --<b>Daniel D. Sledge</b>, author of <i>Health Divided: Public Health, Individual Medicine, and the Making of Modern American Health Policy</i>

Zachary Callen deftly probes the interface between federalism and the emergence of the railroad system in the antebellum era. He carefully traces the gradual shift away from state-centered railroad policy, pointing out that difficulties in promoting and coordinating railroads were common and induced western states to take the lead in calling for federal assistance. This volume casts welcome light on the nascent movement for federal control of the rail network and raises far-reaching questions about the nature of federalism in the American constitutional order. --James W. Ely Jr, author of Railroads and American Law We know a lot about American national state building. But Callen tells a story that puts the states and federalism front and center. It's a refreshing perspective on how national capacities are built through the actions and inactions of other levels and branches of government. --Patricia Strach, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration & Policy, University at Albany Bristling with original insights into the way federalism structured railroad development and national state building in the US, Railroads and American Political Development is a model of multi-method scholarship, which weaves statistical analysis and case studies into an elegant narrative. With this book, Zachary Callen joins a select group of eminent social scientists, who have taught us to see the relationship between Western industrialization and political development anew through careful study of the railroads. --Gerald Berk, author of Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865-1917 In this thoughtful new book, Zachary Callen reveals the politics of space at the center of America's antebellum railroad saga. The political energy of railroads played out in state legislatures, in Congress, and the tensions within and between them. An innovative reading of early American federalism, its limits and its long-run reverberations in American industrialization and political development. --Daniel Carpenter, Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University Zachary Callen employs geographical information to enhance and transform our understanding of the development of America's railroad system and its interconnections with American political development. An innovative and important work. --Daniel D. Sledge, author of Health Divided: Public Health, Individual Medicine, and the Making of Modern American Health Policy Zachary Callen employs geographical information to enhance and transform our understanding of the development of America's railroad system and its interconnections with American political development. An innovative and important work. --Daniel D. Sledge, author of Health Divided: Public Health, Individual Medicine, and the Making of Modern American Health Policy In this thoughtful new book, Zachary Callen reveals the politics of space at the center of America's antebellum railroad saga. The political energy of railroads played out in state legislatures, in Congress, and the tensions within and between them. An innovative reading of early American federalism, its limits and its long-run reverberations in American industrialization and political development. --Daniel Carpenter, Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University Bristling with original insights into the way federalism structured railroad development and national state building in the US, Railroads and American Political Development is a model of multi-method scholarship, which weaves statistical analysis and case studies into an elegant narrative. With this book, Zachary Callen joins a select group of eminent social scientists, who have taught us to see the relationship between Western industrialization and political development anew through careful study of the railroads. --Gerald Berk, author of Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865-1917 We know a lot about American national state building. But Callen tells a story that puts the states and federalism front and center. It's a refreshing perspective on how national capacities are built through the actions and inactions of other levels and branches of government. --Patricia Strach, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration & Policy, University at Albany

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Zachary Callen is assistant professor of political science at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA.

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