[PDF.51cr] Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930

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

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 | #1039497 in Books |  2014-03-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.75 x7.00 x1.00l,1.21 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| An important political history|By Janet Snakehole|This book may be about a road, but it is really about much more. It is a book about the political backstory to road building and, as such, highlights something we all take for granted in our modern age. Who ever thinks to question the presence or persistence of roads? They are such an organic part of our daily lives, but few s| |Complex and fascinating. From accurate highway signage to the emergence of maps, she shows how people imagined, financed, and built roads in the American South. In her hands, the story of infrastructure development weaves in and out of stories of southern poli

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back. In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstate...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930   |  Tammy Ingram. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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