Maury Klein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3790752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maury Klein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maury |
| FAMILY NAME | Klein |
| SIGNATURE | KLEIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Evolution of the American Diesel Locomotive (review)
Reviewed by: Evolution of the American Diesel Locomotive Maury Klein (bio) Evolution of the American Diesel Locomotive. By J. Parker Lamb. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. x+184. $39.95. This handsome, loving account of the American diesel locomotive will likely appeal more to railroad buffs and railroaders than to historians. J. Parker Lamb has compiled a thorough and lucid account of a technology that transformed American railro…
The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America (review)
Reviewed by: The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America Maury Klein (bio) The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. By Robert G. Angevine. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii+351. $65. Historians have long pointed to the close relationship between the military and railroad companies during the nineteenth century, but few have explor…
Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States (review)
Politics rather than technology lies at the center of this well-crafted study. Using internal improvements as his vehicle, John Lauritz Larson seeks to "illustrate the complex interaction of different strains of revolutionary republicanism with the actual practice of politics and government under new constitutions in environments of clashing interests and rapidly changing conditions—instabilities that were exaggerated by the Revolution itself" (p…
The Stock Market Crash of 1929: A Review Article
The stock market crash of 1929, a major trauma that still haunts the national memory, has received surprisingly little attention from scholars in seventy years and has produced even less agreement as to its causes and consequences. This review of the literature suggests that the disagreements and debates over the crash reveal as much about what can and cannot be known for certain about the event as they do about potential answers to the mysteries…
Coming Full Circle: The Study of Big Business since 1950
Taking a broad view of historians' work on the rise of big business in the United States over the last half-century, this article attempts to assess both where business history has been and where it may go in the future. The analysis recognizes the centrality of the impact made by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., but it also delves into other paths, including some not taken, of interest to historians. This wide-ranging interpretation also maintains the i…
The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman
Journal Article The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman Get access The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman. By Klein Maury. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xvi + 521 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $34.95.) Don L. Hofsommer Don L. Hofsommer St. Cloud State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 106–107, https://d…
The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman
Journal Article The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman. By Maury Klein. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xviii, 521 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2517-4.) Get access K. Austin Kerr K. Austin Kerr Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Page 225, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674987 Published: 01 June 2001
Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
Journal Article Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War. By Maury Klein. (New York: Knopf, 1997. xii, 496 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-44747-4.) Get access Leslie Anders Leslie Anders Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 686–687, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567822 P…
Reaping the Bounty: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Turns Abroad, 1878-1902
Journal Article Reaping the Bounty: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Turns Abroad, 1878–1902. By Esko Heikkonen. (Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society, 1995. 319 pp. Paper, ISBN 951710-022-1.) Get access Maury Klein Maury Klein University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 673–674, https://doi.or…
The Rockefellers
Journal Article The Rockefellers. Prod. by Alison Guss. Cel Communications, Inc., 1994. 40 mins. and The Vanderbilts. Prod. by Molly Thompson. History Television Network Productions, H-TV, 1995. 50 mins. Get access Maury Klein Maury Klein University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1121–1122, https:…
Unfinished Business: The Railroad in American Life
The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853
Journal Article The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828–1853. By James D. Dilts. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. xxii, 472 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8047-2235-8.) Get access Maury Klein Maury Klein University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Page 1704, h…
The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel
In this sequel to his best-selling Railroad Passenger Car, John White changes the freight car's lowly image. This book explores the history of American railroads and American technology. Illustrated and the result of more than a decade of research, it brings to light important new information about the rail industry of 19th-century America, the ingenuity of American invention, and the development of highly specialized rail cars to move products a…
The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel by John H. White, Jr
TECHNOLOGYAND CULTURE Book Reviews 191 mission with authority and style, and Stanford University Press has produced an equally stylish and well-illustrated book. John K. Brown Dr. Brown is a historian in the Division of Technology, Culture and Communication in the School of Engineering at the University of Virginia. His history of the Baldwin Locomotive Works is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. The American Railroad Freight Car: F…
Unfinished Business: The Railroad in American Life
The Flowering of the Third America: The Making of an Organizational Society, 1850-1920
Journal Article The Flowering of the Third America: The Making of an Organizational Society, 1830–1920. By Maury Klein. (Chicago: Dec, 1993. vi, 217 pp. $22.50, ISBN 1-56663-029-0.) Get access Olivier Zunz Olivier Zunz University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1337–1338, https://doi.org/10.2307/208…
Frederick Billings: A Life
Journal Article Frederick Billings: A Life. By Robin W. Winks. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. x + 398 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-506814-9.) Get access Maury Klein Maury Klein University of Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Page 1174, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080864 Published: 01 December 1992
Alfred I. du Pont: The Man and His Family by Joseph Frazier Wall
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1119 Fitzgerald concludes that hybrid corn was not a uniform benefit to all farmers, that purchased seed (and other bought inputs) contrib uted to farmers’ economic dependency, and that the persistent interest in improving yields resulted in chronic overproduction. These are conclusions that some people, including myself, see in a different light. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald’s story of hybrid corn is a splendid p…
Alfred I. du Pont: The Man and His Family
Competition and Regulation: The Railroad Model
In the following essay on the railroad industry, Maury Klein examines preconceptions and misunderstandings surrounding Americans' views of regulation and competition. He argues that the United States seems to want competition without losers and that, at least in the case of railroads, regulation has often tried to ensure this outcome without a real understanding of the economics of the industry
Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893
A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad
A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad by John Hoyt Williams
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1055 with the railroad unions and his friendship with politicians and presidents (especially Franklin Delano Roosevelt) assisted the B&O in surviving the difficult years of World War I and the Great Depression. The B&O, along with most American railroads, moved a tremen dous amount of freight tonnage and passengers during World War II. In the postwar era, aggressive modernization efforts, such as dieselization…
Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893
Competition and Regulation: The Railroad Model
In the following essay on the railroad industry, Maury Klein examines preconceptions and misunderstandings surrounding Americans' views of regulation and competition. He argues that the United States seems to want competition without losers and that, at least in the case of railroads, regulation has often tried to ensure this outcome without a real understanding of the economics of the industry
In Search of Jay Gould
Jay Gould's image is stamped heavily upon the picture historians have drawn of the “Gilded Age” of American economic development. Our lack of knowledge of the man, and our meager efforts to understand him, account in large measure for the fatuous traditional interpretation of the era. Professor Klein explains how the work of recent historians has made the hackneyed view of both the man and his age obsolete. He reviews the constructive role that G…
Coming Full Circle: The Study of Big Business since 1950
Taking a broad view of historians' work on the rise of big business in the United States over the last half-century, this article attempts to assess both where business history has been and where it may go in the future. The analysis recognizes the centrality of the impact made by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., but it also delves into other paths, including some not taken, of interest to historians. This wide-ranging interpretation also maintains the i…
Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893
Southern Railroad Leaders, 1865-1893: Identities and Ideologies
As the American South recovered from the Civil War, railroads and the businessmen who managed them were important ingredients in the process of economic change. But who were the railroad leaders of the first generation of the “New South” and what were their personal and corporate goals? What were the effects of their actions on the course of southern restoration? Sharply at odds with the usual “carpetbagger” demonology, Professor Klein suggests a…
The Growth Strategies of Southern Railroads, 1865-1893
Railroads were unquestionably a leading sector of economic development in the American South following the Civil War. By appraising the growth strategies followed by southern roads as functions of their profitability, the authors illustrate how the supply of regional transport in the South was patterned by the decisions of competing groups of businessmen
Southern Railroad Leaders, 1865-1893: Identities and Ideologies
As the American South recovered from the Civil War, railroads and the businessmen who managed them were important ingredients in the process of economic change. But who were the railroad leaders of the first generation of the “New South” and what were their personal and corporate goals? What were the effects of their actions on the course of southern restoration? Sharply at odds with the usual “carpetbagger” demonology, Professor Klein suggests a…
Rail Routes South: Louisville's Fight for the Southern Market, 1865-1872
The Great Richmond Terminal: A Study in Businessmen and Business Strategy
The Great Richmond Terminal: A Study in Businessmen and Business Strategy
Journal Article The Great Richmond Terminal: A Study in Businessmen and Business Strategy. By Maury Klein. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for The Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1970. xiii + 323 pp. Maps, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $9.50.) Get access John F. Stover John F. Stover Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
The Life and Decline of the American Railroad
Journal Article The Life and Decline of the American Railroad. By John F. Stover. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. xi + 324 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, and index. $7.50.) Get access Maury Klein Maury Klein University of Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 3, December 1970, Pages 710–711, https://doi.org/10.2307/1918012 Published: 01 Decem…
Arthur E. Stilwell: Promoter with a Hunch
Edward Porter Alexander
Edward Porter Alexander
Journal Article Edward Porter Alexander. By Maury Klein. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1971. xii + 279 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $11.00.) Get access John F. Stover John F. Stover Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 2, September 1972, Pages 425–426, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890228 Published: 01 September 197…
History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest
In Search of Jay Gould
Jay Gould's image is stamped heavily upon the picture historians have drawn of the “Gilded Age” of American economic development. Our lack of knowledge of the man, and our meager efforts to understand him, account in large measure for the fatuous traditional interpretation of the era. Professor Klein explains how the work of recent historians has made the hackneyed view of both the man and his age obsolete. He reviews the constructive role that G…
The Southern Railway: Road of the Innovators
The book provides a history of the Southern Railway System from its inception in 1894 to 1 June, 1982, the date Southern Railways combined with Norfolk and Western Railway under the banner of Norfolk Southern Corporation and created a particularly appropriate closing of the published history of Southern Railway System. The system created a South-wide transportation system and left a legacy of growth to the area. Part of that legacy is the 10,500-…
The Life and Legend of Jay Gould
The Life and Legend of Jay Gould
Journal Article The Life and Legend of Jay Gould. By Maury Klein. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. xvii + 595 pp. $27.50.) Get access Edwin J. Perkins Edwin J. Perkins University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 190–191, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908572 Published: 01 June 1987
The Life and Legend of Jay Gould
Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893
The Money Game in Old New York: Daniel Drew and His Times
Journal Article The Money Game in Old New York: Daniel Drew and His Times. By Clifford Browder. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. viii + 319 pp. $28.00.) Get access Maury Klein Maury Klein University of Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Pages 1342–1343, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894447 Published: 01 March 1988
Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893
A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad
A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad by John Hoyt Williams
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1055 with the railroad unions and his friendship with politicians and presidents (especially Franklin Delano Roosevelt) assisted the B&O in surviving the difficult years of World War I and the Great Depression. The B&O, along with most American railroads, moved a tremen dous amount of freight tonnage and passengers during World War II. In the postwar era, aggressive modernization efforts, such as dieselization…
Competition and Regulation: The Railroad Model
In the following essay on the railroad industry, Maury Klein examines preconceptions and misunderstandings surrounding Americans' views of regulation and competition. He argues that the United States seems to want competition without losers and that, at least in the case of railroads, regulation has often tried to ensure this outcome without a real understanding of the economics of the industry
Alfred I. du Pont: The Man and His Family by Joseph Frazier Wall
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1119 Fitzgerald concludes that hybrid corn was not a uniform benefit to all farmers, that purchased seed (and other bought inputs) contrib uted to farmers’ economic dependency, and that the persistent interest in improving yields resulted in chronic overproduction. These are conclusions that some people, including myself, see in a different light. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald’s story of hybrid corn is a splendid p…
Alfred I. du Pont: The Man and His Family
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