George Hilton (historian)
George W. Hilton | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 18, 1925 UCLA |
| Field | Historian and economist |
| Alma mater | |
George Woodman Hilton (January 18, 1925 – August 4, 2014) was a
labor history.[1]
Early life and education
Born in Chicago,PhD from the University of Chicago in 1956.
Career
He then taught for many years at the
Professor Emeritus of Economics at UCLA.[3] He served as the Acting Curator of Rail Transportation at the Smithsonian Institution from July 1968 through June 1969. He died of heart disease in 2014, aged 89.[4]
Publications
Books
- Hilton, G. W. (1954) Cable railways of Chicago, Electric Railway Historical Society.
- Hilton, G. W. (1960) The truck system including a history of the British truck acts 1465–1960[5]
- Hilton, George W.; Due, John Fitzgerald (1960). The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford, CA:
- Hilton, George W. (2003) [1962]. The Great Lakes car ferries. Davenport, Iowa: Montevallo Historical Press.
- Hilton, G. W. (1963) The Ma and Pa: A History of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad. Howell-North Books (Second edition, 1980; revised, 1999, The Johns Hopkins University Press)[8]
- Hilton, G. W. (1964) The Staten Island Ferry, Howell-North Books, First edition.
- Hilton, G. W. (1968) The Night Boat, Howell-North Books, First edition.
- Hilton, G. W. (1969) The Transportation Act of 1958: A decade of experience, Indiana University Press, First edition.[9]
- Hilton, G. W. (1971) The Cable Car in America (Revised edition, 1982)[10]
- Hilton, G. W. (1974) Federal Transit Subsidies: The Urban Mass Transportation Assistance Program. (AEI) [1][11]
- Hilton, G. W. (1975) The Northeast railroad problem (AEI)] Pdf.
- Hilton, G. W.; Jobe, Joseph and Plummer, Russell (1976) The illustrated history of paddle steamersTwo Continents Publishing Group.
- Hilton, G. W. (1976) "What did we give wp with the big red cars?" (article)
- Hilton, George W. (1980). Amtrak: The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (PDF). Washington, DC: OCLC 5777023.
- Hilton, G. W. (1987) Monon Route, Howell-North.[12]
- Hilton, George W. (1997) [1990]. American narrow gauge railroads. Stanford, California:
- Hilton, G. W. (1995) The annotated baseball stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914–1919 Stanford University Press, First edition.[14]
- Hilton, G. W. (1995) Eastland: legacy of the Titanic Stanford University Press.[15]
- Hilton, George Woodman (1997). The Toledo, Port Clinton and Lakeside Railway. Montevallo, Ala.: Montevallo Historical Press. OCLC 37898677.
- Hilton, G. W. (1997) Nellie Farren, Sir Arthur Sullivan Society.
- Hilton, George Woodman (2002). Lake Michigan passenger steamers. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
- Hilton, G. W. (2002) Lake Michigan passenger steamers, Stanford University Press.
- Hilton, G. W. (2002) editor, The Front Page: From Theater to Reality, Hanover: Smith and Kraus, Inc.
Selected chapters and journal articles
- Hilton, George W. (1957). "The British Truck System in the Nineteenth Century". Journal of Political Economy. 65 (3): 237–256. S2CID 146597493.
- Hilton, G. W. (April 1958). "The truck act of 1831". The Economic History Review. 10 (3): 470–479. .
- Hilton, G. W. (1959), "The theory of tax incidence applied to the gains of labor unions", in ISBN 9780804705684
- Hilton, George W. (1962). "The Decline of Railroad Commutation". The Business History Review. 36 (2): 171–187. S2CID 155828018.
- Hilton, George W. (1963). "Public Policy Toward the Extinction of the Railroads". Transportation Journal. 3 (2): 17–26. JSTOR 20711898.
- Hilton, George W. (July 1969). "Transport technology and the urban pattern". Journal of Contemporary History. 4 (3): 123–135. S2CID 162286809.
- Hilton, George W. (1972). "The Basic Behavior of Regulatory Commissions". The American Economic Review. 62 (1/2): 47–54. JSTOR 1821523.
- Hilton, George W. (1983-08-01). "The role of government in emergency transportation planning". Energy. Energy use in Transportation Contingency Planning. 8 (8–9): 581–588. ISSN 0360-5442.
Articles and comments
Published in Trains Magazine, 1945–1993:
- Pere Marquette, August 1945 issue, pages 7–21
- Tennessee Central, January 1946 issue, pages 8–15
- Meets All Trains, August 1946 issue, pages 48–49
- Carquinez Train Ferries, August 1946 issue, pages 36–39
- Where 19th Century Carferries Float On, March 1965 issue, pages 24–27
- What Does Manx Mean?, September 1966 issue, pages 24–27
- What Went Wrong and What to Do About It, January 1967 issue, pages 36–45
- Muckraking in a Day Coach, June 1968 issue, pages 48–50
- The Promise of Promontory, May 1969 issue, pages 20–28
- What Was Grand About Grand Central, September 1969 issue, pages 20–28
- Ralph in the Roundhouse, November 1970 issue, pages 44–47
- Please, No Hero for the North Western, January 1971 issue, pages 27–28
- Integration in the North, July 1971 issue, pages 36–43
- The View of the Viaduct from in Front of the Diner, May 1972 issue, pages 20–25
- What Does the ICC Cost You and Me?, October 1972 issue, pages 24–28
- Turntable: Good News from the Lehigh Valley, August 1973 issue, page 58
- Department-Store Mural, March 1974 issue, page 43
- Why Pre-Electronic Railroading Survives, May 1974 issue, pages 20–24
- Turntable: Railfanning as Education, November 1974 issue, page 66
- Great Lakes Car Ferries: An Endangered Species, January 1975 issue, pages 42–51
- Turntable: The View from Middle Age, November 1975 issue, page 82
- Slack, February 1976 issue, pages 22–28
- What Does the ICC Cost You and Me? Currently, That Is, June 1978 issue, pages 28–32
- The One Best Place to Watch Trains, December 1980 issue, pages 28–38
- Turntable: Infran-canin-ophilia, March 1983 issue, page 66
- Turntable: Railfanning without Railroads, September 1984 issue, page 70
- Turntable: Is Railroading Worth a Lifetime?, February 1985 issue, page 70
- Turntable: In Praise of the Unbuilt, February 1986 issue, page 70
- Turntable: What Should Be Preserved from the ICC, November 1987 issue, page 90
- Perspectives: The Trains Were in Transition, and It Was a Fascinating Railroad Business, November 1990 issue, pages 82–83
- ABCs of Railroading: A History of Track Gauge, September 1992 issue, pages 23–24
- Regrets from Early Youth, July 1993 issue, page 76
References
- Kalmbach Publishing.
- Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation. p. 188. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ faculty page at UCLA Archived 2015-11-03 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved November 9, 2013.
- ^ Rasmussen, Frederick N.; Baltimore, Sun (13 August 2014). "George W. Hilton, professor and author of history of 'Ma & Pa' railroad, dies at 89". The Washington Post. Nash Holdings LLC. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- JSTOR 2551409.
ISSN 1942-9711
.S2CID 165934101
.ISSN 1525-4755
.S2CID 110195657
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