Research Links: Secondary Sources

Adams, Henry, The Education of Henry Adams, An Autobiography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918.
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Baldwin Locomotive Works. Exhibit of Locomotives by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago Illinois, May-October 1893. Philadelphia: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1893.
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Baldwin Locomotive Works: Illustrated Catalog of Locomotives. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1871.
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Carnegie, Andrew. Triumphant Democracy: Fifty Years' March of the Republic. New York: Scribner and Sons, 1886.
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Casson, Mark. The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Chandler, Alfred D. Henry Varnum Poor, Business Editor, Analyst, and Reformer. New York: Arno Press, 1956.

-The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977.
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Chandler, Alfred D., ed., The Railroads: Pioneers in Modern Management. New York: Arno Press, 1979.

Cochran, Thomas C. Railroad Leaders 1845-1890, The Business Mind in Action. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953.

Dobbin, Frank. Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Dunlavy, Colleen A. "Organizing Railroad Interests: The Creation of National Railroad Associations in the United States and Prussia," Business and Economic History, Second Series, vol. 19 (1990): 133-142.

- Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Harris Corporation. "Founding Dates of the 1994 'Fortune 500' U.S. Companies," The Business History Review, vol. 70, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 69-90.
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McCraw, Thomas K. "American Capitalism" in Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions, ed. Thomas K. McCraw, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Micklethwait, John, and Adrian Wooldridge. The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea. New York: Modern Library, 2003.

Perkins, Charles E. "Organization of the Railroads" Personal Papers, 1885, in The Railroads: Pioneers in Modern Management Alfred Chandler, ed. New York: Arno Press, 1979.

Perrow, Charles. Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.

White, Richard. "Information, Markets, and Corruption: Transcontinental Railroad in the Gilded Age," The Journal of American History, vol. 90, no. 1 (June 2003): 19-43.
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- Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2011.

Whitten, David O., and Bessie E. Whitten. The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive, and Industrial Enterprise. Westport, CT.: Praeger Publishers, 2006.