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John H. WhiteJr. Wet Britches and Muddy Boots: A History of Travel in Victorian America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xxvi + 512 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-35696-3, $55.00 (cloth); 978-0-253-00558-8, $45.99 (ebook).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Will Mackintosh
Will Mackintosh*
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 436 - 439
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References

1. Glen E. Holt, “The Changing Perception of Urban Pathology: An Essay on the Development of Mass Transit in the United States.” In Cities in American History, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson and Stanley K. Schultz, 324–343 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), p. 327.

2. See George Rogers Taylor, The Transportation Revolution, 1815–1860 (New York: Rinehart, 1951); Carol Sheriff, The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996); and John Lauritz Larson, Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).

3. Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011).