Roads to power
Subtitle: Britain invents the infrastructure state
By: Joanna Guldi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674057593
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics); Roads; Government policy; Transportation and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Military craft and parliamentary expertise : the institutional evolution of road-making; title: Colonizing at home : the political lobby for centralizing highways; title: Paying to walk : the national movement against centralized roads; title: Wayfaring strangers : mobile communities and the death of contact.