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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sky, Theodore, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : Lanham, Md. : University of Delaware Press ; Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.
Temas:
National Highway System.
Transportation and state > United States > History.
Public investment > United States.
Transport > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
Public investments.
Transportation and state.
Cumberland Road.
United States.
United States > Cumberland Road.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The great debates about the national road
  • pt. 2. The national road in its prime
  • pt. 3. The decline and revival of the road, its roles as a precursor of the interstate system, and its place as a national system
  • pt. 4. Twenty-first-century legacy.

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