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American historian and economist (1925–2014)
George W. Hilton
Born (1925-01-18 ) January 18, 1925Died August 4, 2014(2014-08-04) (aged 89) Nationality
American Institution
UCLA Field Historian and economist Alma mater
George Woodman Hilton (January 18, 1925 – August 4, 2014) was a
United States historian and economist, who specialized in
social history ,
transportation economics ,
regulation by
commission , the history of
economic thought and
labor history .
[1]
Early life and education
Born in Chicago,
[2] Hilton attended
Dartmouth College and earned his
BA in Economics summa cum laude in 1946. He obtained his
MA in 1950. Hilton attended the
London School of Economics in 1953–1955, and obtained his
PhD from the
University of Chicago in 1956.
Career
He then taught for many years at the
University of California, Los Angeles , and was later a
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:
Stanford University Press .
ISBN
978-0-8047-4014-2 .
OCLC
237973 .
[6]
Hilton, George W. (2003) [1962].
The Great Lakes car ferries . Davenport, Iowa: Montevallo Historical Press.
ISBN
0-9658624-3-7 .
OCLC
61225777 .
[7]
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 steamers Two 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:
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research .
ISBN
0-8447-3369-5 .
OCLC
5777023 .
Hilton, G. W. (1987) Monon Route, Howell-North.
[12]
Hilton, George W. (1997) [1990].
American narrow gauge railroads . Stanford, California:
Stanford University Press .
ISBN
0-8047-1731-1 .
OCLC
20418057 .
[13]
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.
ISBN
0-9658624-0-2 .
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.
ISBN
0-8047-4240-5 .
OCLC
49942913 .
[16]
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.
doi :
10.1086/257922 .
ISSN
0022-3808 .
JSTOR
1833293 .
S2CID
146597493 .
Hilton, G. W. (April 1958). "The truck act of 1831". The Economic History Review . 10 (3): 470–479.
doi :
10.1111/j.1468-0289.1958.tb00020.x .
Hilton, G. W. (1959), "The theory of tax incidence applied to the gains of labor unions", in
Abramovitz, Moses ; et al. (eds.), The allocation of economic resources: essays in honor of Bernard Francis Haley , Stanford, California:
Stanford University Press ,
OCLC
490147128 .
ISBN
9780804705684
Hilton, George W. (1962).
"The Decline of Railroad Commutation" . The Business History Review . 36 (2): 171–187.
doi :
10.2307/3111454 .
ISSN
0007-6805 .
JSTOR
3111454 .
S2CID
155828018 .
Hilton, George W. (1963).
"Public Policy Toward the Extinction of the Railroads" . Transportation Journal . 3 (2): 17–26.
ISSN
0041-1612 .
JSTOR
20711898 .
Hilton, George W. (July 1969).
"Transport technology and the urban pattern" . Journal of Contemporary History . 4 (3): 123–135.
doi :
10.1177/002200946900400308 .
ISSN
0022-0094 .
S2CID
162286809 .
Hilton, George W. (1972).
"The Basic Behavior of Regulatory Commissions" . The American Economic Review . 62 (1/2): 47–54.
ISSN
0002-8282 .
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.
doi :
10.1016/0360-5442(83)90025-7 .
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
^ Lester, David C. (7 August 2014).
"Transportation historian George W. Hilton dies" .
Trains .
Kalmbach Publishing .
^ Simmons-Boardman (1971).
Who's who in railroading and rail transit . New York:
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 .
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