This book grew out of the concern to correct the “seriously misleading picture of the degree of physical integration of American railroads”. Why would anyone care or even how would the authors be sure of what the correct maps would look like? They would have to put a lot of research into the project and it is obvious that they did.

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The authors, George Taylor and Irene Neu, started out by focusing on the transportation problem of the mid to late nineteenth century. The United States expanded rapidly prior to the Civil War. In 1860, the United States was secondary in industry. The authors state that “American output of both products (pig iron and steel making) exceeded that of any country.” The writers went on to say that in 1860 that manufactured goods in the United States were less in value than the goods in Great Britain, France, and Germany. By 1890, the United surpassed the leading countries.

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