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The National Road and the Difficult Path to Sustainable National Investment.
The National Road is a comprehensive history of the first federally financed interstate highway, an approximately 600-mile span that joined Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. This book covers the road's contribution to the cultural, eco...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. THE GREAT DEBATES ABOUT THE NATIONAL ROAD; The Constitution ofthe United States; CHAPTER 1. Washington's Role; CHAPTER 2. Jefferson, Gallatin, and the Legislation of 1806; CHAPTER 3. Madison: CONSTRUCTION IN THE SHADOW OF WAR AND THE BONUS BILL VETO; CHAPTER 4. Monroe's Compromise and the Tollgate Battle; CHAPTER 5. John Quincy Adams and the High-Water Mark of the National Road as a National Road; CHAPTER 6. Andrew Jackson and the Transfer of the National Road to the States.
- CHAPTER 7. The National Road and the Law, Politics, and Policy of Internal ImprovementPart II. THE NATIONAL ROADIN ITS PRIME; CHAPTER 8. Laying Out and Building the National Road; CHAPTER 9. Confronting Problems in Road Construction East of the Ohio in the Madison and Monroe Years: AN ARCHIVAL ACCOUNT; CHAPTER 10. The Culture of the National Road in Its Prime; CHAPTER 11. The Road as a Microcosm of Early-Republic America; Part III. THE DECLINE AND REVIVAL OF THE ROAD, ITS ROLE AS A PRECURSOR OF THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM, AND ITS PLACE AS A NATIONAL SYMBOL.
- CHAPTER 12. The Decline and Revival of the RoadCHAPTER 13. The National Road, the Creation of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, and the Post-Interstate Era: The Origins of the Dwight D. EisenhowerInterstate Highway System; CHAPTER 14. The National Road as National Symbol; Part IV. TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY LEGACY; CHAPTER 15. The National Road and the Enduring Role of the Federal Spending Power; CHAPTER 16. A National Road Perspective on America's Twenty-First-Century Infrastructure Challenges.
- Epilogue: THE NATIONAL ROAD, THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT, AND SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL INVESTMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYAppendix: National Road Time Line; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.