Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879. Rev. and Enl. Ed
Author: Frank William Scott
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Roads to Power
Author: Jo Guldi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674264134
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674264134
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
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.
Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879
Author: Frank William Scott
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Publisher:
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
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Tercentenary Handlist of English & Welsh Newspapers, Magazines & Reviews ...
Author: Roland Austin
Publisher: London : Dawsons of Pall Mall
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Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Publisher: London : Dawsons of Pall Mall
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Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Heritage of American Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum ...
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Catalogue. Supplement
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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First[-Fifth] Biennial Report of the Historical Department of Iowa Made to the Trustees of the State Library
Author: Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Publisher:
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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