xxxix, 660 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Genesis Annus horribilis : 1873 Friends Spatial politics Kilkenny cats Men in octopus suits Workingmen Looking backward Collapse Strike Creative destruction Introduction Genesis. First principles ; Patriotism and profit ; The acts of the founders ; Building with other people's money ; Golden spike A railroad life: H.K. Thomas Annus horribilis: 1873. Springtime in Mexico ; Springtime in Canada ; The Indians' perpetual winter ; Political storms brewing ; Information and trust ; The long winter ; Stories of the fall A railroad life: William Hyde Friends. The lobby ; Antimonopoly and party politics ; The Southern Transcontinental ; Reform in the Gilded Age ; A railroad life: Elias C. Boudinot Spatial politics. Absolute space ; Relational space ; The things they carried ; How railroad rates construct space ; The rise of the octopus ; Regulating space A railroad life: Alfred A. Cohen Kilkenny cats. Creative destruction ; The Colton trial ; Territory ; Rationalizing irrationality ; Superheroes of bad management ; A system that did not bury its dead Mise en scene: labor in nature Men in octopus suits. The visible hand ; Men and boys: manhood and management ; A political animal ; Going off the tracks A railroad life: William Mahl Workingmen. Control of work ; The knights of labor ; Contract labor and the Chinese ; Rock springs ; Workers' marginalism A railroad life: William Pinkerton Looking backward. Benevolent trusts ; Waiting for natural monopoly ; Labor's defeats ; Bears ; The Interstate Commerce Commission ; The Interstate-Commerce Railway Association Mise en scene: the death of Johanna Grogan Collapse. An Alcoholics Anonymous for railroads ; Bankers ; Villard and Adams ; The second fall of Henry Villard ; The panic of 1893 ; The struggles of the octopus Mise en scene: reading the newspapers Strike. The courts ; Union Pacific and Great Northern ; Pullman ; The decline of the octopus Mise en scene: following the detectives Creative destruction. Dumb growth ; Cattle ; The diverging Dakotas ; Rain follows the plow Mise en scene: Wovoka Epilogue Conclusion
