George Hilton (historian)
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George Woodman Hilton, born 1925, is a United States historian and economist, who specializes in social history, transportation economics, regulation by commission, the history of economic thought and labor history.
Hilton attended Dartmouth College and earned his A.B. in Economics summa cum laude in 1946. He obtained his M.A. in 1950. Hilton attended the London School of Economics in 1953-1955, and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956.
He then taught for many years at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is now a Professor Emeritus of Economics at UCLA.
Hilton's major published works include:
- The Truck System Including a History of the British Truck Acts 1465-1960 (1960)
- The Electric Interurban Railways in America (1964; co-written with John F. Due)
- The Cable Car in America (1971)
- The Illustrated History of Paddle Steamers (1976)
- "What Did We Give Up With the Big Red Cars?" (article, 1976)
- Amtrak: The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (1980)
- The Ma and Pa (1981)
- American Narrow Gauge Railroads (1994)
- The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919 (1995)
- Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic (1995)
