Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375174632
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Author : William Foote
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Roads
ISBN :
Author : Derek Howard Aldcroft
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719008399
Author : Jo Guldi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0674264134
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 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and also dividing them in unforeseen ways. The highway network led to contests for control over everything from road management to market access. Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they could not afford, while English counties wanted to be spared the cost of underwriting roads to Scotland. The new network also transformed social relationships. Although travelers moved along the same routes, they occupied increasingly isolated spheres. The roads were the product of a new form of government, the infrastructure state, marked by the unprecedented control bureaucrats wielded over decisions relating to everyday life. Does information really work to unite strangers? Do markets unite nations and peoples in common interests? There are lessons here for all who would end poverty or design their markets around the principle of participation. Guldi draws direct connections between traditional infrastructure and the contemporary collapse of the American Rust Belt, the decline of American infrastructure, the digital divide, and net neutrality. In the modern world, infrastructure is our principal tool for forging new communities, but it cannot outlast the control of governance by visionaries.
Author : Eric Pawson
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Author : Dorothy Ballen
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Roads
ISBN :
Author : Great Britain. Local Government Board
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Local government
ISBN :
Supplements to the Board's Annual report include the: Report of the medical officer
Author : Great Britain. Local Government Board
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Health status indicators
ISBN :
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 1853
Category :
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Author : John Loudon McAdam
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781018348919
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