Roads to power : Britain invents the infrastructure state /

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Guldi narrates how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. The new infrastructure state saw unprecedented control by bureaucrats over everyday life and gave rise to co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guldi, Jo (Joanna), 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Infrastructure (Economics) > Great Britain.
Roads > Government policy > Great Britain.
Transportation and state > Great Britain.
Routes > Politique gouvernementale > Grande-Bretagne.
Transport > Politique gouvernementale > Grande-Bretagne.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Roads > Government policy
Transportation and state
Straėnverkehr
Infrastruktur
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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