George Rogers Taylor

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According to Wikipedia, George Rogers Taylor was an American economic historian, best known for his 1951 work The Transportation Revolution, 1815–1860. Biography Taylor was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He was the son of Webb Vine Taylor and Grace Rogers. He received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago. He graduated in 1914 from Wayland Academy at Beaver Dam and from what was then Oshkosh Normal School in 1916. He earned his way through college by waiting on tables, mowing lawns and tending furnaces. After his graduation from Oshkosh Normal School, he served a year as principal of a small elementary school at Waukesha and then enlisted for two years in the U.S. Navy during World War I. He taught for two years at Wayland Academy and then received his bachelor's degree 1921 and his doctorate in 1929, both from the University of Chicago.

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Politics, Economics and Welfare. (1953) (822)
The transportation revolution, 1815-1860 (1952) (275)
Puritanism in Early America@@@The Causes of the American Revolution@@@The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution@@@Hamilton and the National Debt@@@The Turner Thesis Concerning the Role of the Frontier in American History (1951) (66)
The American railroad network, 1861-1890 (1957) (54)
American Economic Growth Before 1840: An Exploratory Essay (1964) (44)
The Panic of 1819, Reactions and Policies. (1963) (19)
Statistical Studies (1950) (19)
American Urban Growth Preceding the Railway Age (1967) (16)
Approaches to American Economic History (1972) (14)
The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890. (1957) (11)
The Transportation Revolution, 1815-60 (1952) (11)
Agrarian Discontent in the Mississippi Valley Preceding the War of 1812 (1931) (8)
Hamilton and the national debt (1950) (5)
American economic history before 1860 (1969) (4)
The War of 1812 : past justifications and present interpretations (1963) (3)
The great tariff debate, 1820-1830 (1953) (3)
Jackson vs. Biddle's bank : the struggle over the second Bank of the United States (1972) (2)
The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860. (1953) (1)
Meeting the Social Studies Where They Are (1952) (1)
Dr. W. B. Turrill, O.B.E., F.R.S. (1962) (1)
Jackson versus Biddle : the struggle over the second Bank of the United States (1949) (1)
Undergraduate Programs in American Studies (1957) (1)
Problems in the Study of Economic Growth (1951) (1)
The American Railroad Network, 1861–1890. By George Rogers Taylor and Irene D. Neu. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. viii, 113. $3.75 (1957) (0)
IV. THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES, 1861 (1956) (0)
Economics and Scientific History@@@Economic History and the Social Sciences: Problems of Methodology@@@The Marginal Revolution in Economics: Interpretation and Evaluation@@@Approaches to American Economic History (1974) (0)
Transportation and the Early Nation. Papers presented at an Indiana American Revolution Bicentennial Symposium. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1982. Pp. vii, 156. $3.50 (1982) (0)
VI. THE TREND TOWARD INTEGRATION, 1861-1870 (1956) (0)
Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information: The United States System of Cities, 1790–1840. By Allan R. Pred. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973. Pp. 348. $15.00 (1974) (0)
State Laws Which Limit Competition in Agricultural Products (1940) (0)
[Book Reviews] (1961) (0)
VII. SOLVING THE GAUGE DIFFERENTIALS, 1861-1880 (1956) (0)
American Studies Documents in Japan (1964) (0)
The War of 1812 (1980) (0)
The passing of the Springfield republican (1950) (0)
Index to Volumes XI–XXIV (1965) (0)
IX. LAST STEPS IN INTEGRATION, 1880-1890 (1956) (0)
VIII. THE FAST FREIGHT LINES, 1861-1890 (1956) (0)
[Book Reviews] (1962) (0)
The Transporation Revolution 1815-1860 (1953) (0)
V. THE MIDWEST AND SOUTH, 1861 (1956) (0)
Problems in the Reforestation of Watersheds (1922) (0)
A Book Well Designed f or Its Purpose: The American Social System: Social Control, Personal Choice, and Public Decision (1956) (0)
I. FOCUSING THE PROBLEM (1956) (0)
America's Economic Growth. Fred Albert Shannon (1942) (0)
III. NEW ENGLAND AND CANADA, 1861 (1956) (0)
Book Reviews:Wholesale Prices in Philadelphia, by Anne Bezanson, R.D. Gary, and Miriam Hussey (1937) (0)
Dr. W. B. Turrill, O.B.E., F.R.S. 1890–1961* (1964) (0)
Book Review:Prices and Inflation during the American Revolution: Pennsylvania, 1770-1790 Anne Bezanson, Blanch Daley, Marjorie C. Denison, Miriam Hussey (1952) (0)
Economic History in the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences: A Review Article (1970) (0)
II. THE RAILROAD MAP, 1861 (1956) (0)
[Book Reviews] (1961) (0)
Book Reviews: The National Waterway: A History of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1769-1965. By Ralph D. Gray (1969) (0)
American Business Cycles, 1865–1897 . By Rendigs Fels. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1959. Pp. vii, 244. $6.00. (1959) (0)
Nicholas Biddle: Nationalist and Public Banker, 1786-1844 by Thomas Payne Govan (1960) (0)
APPENDIX. Key to Abbreviations of Railroad Lines Appearing on the Maps (1956) (0)

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