Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State

✍ Scribed by Jo Guldi

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 310
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction: The Road to Rule
1. Military Craft and Parliamentary Expertise: The Institutional Evolution of Road Making
2. Colonizing at Home: The Political Lobby for Centralizing Highways
3. Paying to Walk: The National Movement against Centralized Roads
4. Wayfaring Strangers: Mobile Communities and the Death of Contact
Conclusion: The Necessity for Infrastructure
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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