Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Maps -- PART I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Problem and Its Setting -- PART II. The Era of Preparation -- Chapter 2. Boston as a Center of Capital, 1820-1845 -- Chapter 3. Moving into Railroad Investment: Experience in the East --...

Although many economic and business historians have examined how American railroads colluded to raise rates or limit service, they have paid less attention to the many ways railroads cooperated to exchange cars and freight between companies and build needed interconnections. This article...

The 1860s witnessed Britain's third, and last, large railway mania. Although it added about as much mileage to the rail network as the great Railway Mania of the 1840s, little is known about it in modern literature. This paper documents how this mania managed to delude investors into pouring...