附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
The invention that distinguishes this age : Railroads and Antebellum America -- "Look out when the bell rings!" : Railroads and Jacksonian entrepreneurial politics -- "Everybody must go to Boston" : railroads, capitalism, and the New Hampshire Jacksonians -- "Mere naked right" : Essex County Whigs and the expansion of public authority -- Desperation and restoration: Essex County Whigs and the economics of railroads.