Roads to power:Britain invents the infrastructure state
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Harvard University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
Publication Dates: | 2012. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | 297 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780674057593 (alk. paper) 0674057597 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | F575 |
CLC: | F575.61 |
Call Number: | F575.61/G971 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Military craft and parliamentary expertise : the institutional evolution of road-making -- Colonizing at home : the political lobby for centralizing highways -- Paying to walk : the national movement against centralized roads -- Wayfaring strangers : mobile communities and the death of contact. |