Roads to power :
Guldi, Jo 1978-
Roads to power : Britain invents the infrastructure state / Joanna Guldi. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012. - 297 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
9780674057593 (alk. paper) 0674057597 (alk. paper)
2011014354
GBB1B0465 bnb
015894792 Uk
Infrastructure (Economics)--Great Britain.
Roads--Government policy--Great Britain.
Transportation and state--Great Britain.
HC260. / C3G85 2012
388.10941
Roads to power : Britain invents the infrastructure state / Joanna Guldi. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012. - 297 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
9780674057593 (alk. paper) 0674057597 (alk. paper)
2011014354
GBB1B0465 bnb
015894792 Uk
Infrastructure (Economics)--Great Britain.
Roads--Government policy--Great Britain.
Transportation and state--Great Britain.
HC260. / C3G85 2012
388.10941