The Visible Hand and the New American Biology: Toward an Integrated Historiography of Railroad-Supported Agricultural Research

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dc.contributor.author Amidon, Kevin
dc.contributor.department World Languages and Cultures
dc.date 2018-02-16T23:46:14.000
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-30T05:47:46Z
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dc.date.copyright Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2008
dc.date.issued 2008-07-01
dc.description.abstract <p>In the early twentieth century, American railroad companies faced new challenges. The railroad network had developed fully, broad political opposition was gaining teeth in new, enforceable federal legislation, and financial markets-first established to support railroad expansion- had begun to move beyond railroads. Railroad companies answered with a wide range of new managerial and scientific practices. Recent scholarship that goes beyond the traditional disciplinary separation of technological, political, managerial, economic, and scientific concerns has enabled historians to recognize that agricultural research pursued in concert with other institutions empowered railroads to address all of these challenges in the period between 1900 and 1930.</p>
dc.description.comments <p>This is a manuscript of an article from Agricultural History 82 (2008): 309, doi:<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3098/ah.2008.82.3.309" target="_blank">10.3098/ah.2008.82.3.309</a>. Posted with permission. Not for quotation or distribution.</p>
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dc.source.uri 10.3098/ah.2008.82.3.309
dc.subject.disciplines History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
dc.subject.disciplines Political History
dc.subject.disciplines Social History
dc.subject.disciplines United States History
dc.title The Visible Hand and the New American Biology: Toward an Integrated Historiography of Railroad-Supported Agricultural Research
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