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Introduction, footnote 16, page xxviii

In fn. 16

p. xxviii

Although scholars until recently have emphasized the comparative weakness of the American state, the federal government was hardly weak between 1860 and 1876. The classic work here is Richard Bensel, Yankee Leviathan,

Richard Bensel, (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990).

Introduction, footnote 20, page xxxi

In fn. 20

p. xxxi

I am hardly the first historian to both admire and struggle against Wiebe's artful and capacious narrative, but my technique is a little different in that I focus on the railroad corporation as both modern and disorderly.