Dixie Highway Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930 / Tammy Ingram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingram, Tammy.

Contributor:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center for the Study of the American South.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Express highways--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Express highways--Political aspects--Southern States--History--20th century.

Transportation--Political aspects--Southern States--History--20th century.

Transportation--Social aspects--Southern States--History--20th century.

Roads--Southern States--History--20th century.

Roads--Southern States--Design and construction--History--20th century.

United States--Politics and government--1901-1953.

Southern States--Politics and government--20th century.

Dixie Highway--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930

Contents:

Building a good roads movement, 1900-1913

The road to Dixie, 1914-1916

Roads at war, 1917-1919

Modern highways and chain gang labor, 1919-1924

Paved with politics : business and bureaucracy in Georgia, 1924-1927.

Notes:

"Sponsored by the postdoctoral fellows program at the Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908851-3-5

1-4696-1552-5

OCLC:

868580493