Roads to Power : : Britain Invents the Infrastructure State / / Jo Guldi.
Roads to Power tells the story of 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. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 18...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 9 halftones, 11 line illustrations, 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. MILITARY CRAFT AND PARLIAMENTARY EXPERTISE
- 2. COLONIZING AT HOME
- 3. PAYING TO WALK
- 4. WAYFARING STRANGERS
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX