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The National Road and the difficult path to sustainable national investment / Theodore Sky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sky, Theodore, 1933-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Highway System.
- Transportation and state--United States--History.
- Transportation and state.
- Public investments--United States.
- Public investments.
- Cumberland Road.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, economic, and administrative history of the United States, its decline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and its revival in the twentieth century in the form of U.S. Route 40.</
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-61149-792-2
- 1-283-22468-2
- 9786613224682
- 1-61149-021-9
- OCLC:
- 745866992
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