Roads to Power - Britain Invents the Infrastructure State

Informationen zum Autor Jo Guldi Klappentext Guldi refutes the traditional tale of how better roads made better neighbors and how the transport revolution unified the English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish into a common and commercial people. In fact, Britons divided over two visions of community: one centralized, expert-driven, and technological; the other local, informal, and libertarian. Zusammenfassung 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 competing visions of community still debated today.

Product details

• Authors: Guldi, Jo Guldi, Guldi Jo
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.01.2012
• EAN: 9780674057593
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05759-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Transportation, United Kingdom, Great Britain, History of engineering and technology, Transport industries, Road transport and haulage trades