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Author Sky, Theodore, 1933-

Title The National Road and the difficult path to sustainable national investment / Theodore Sky.

Publication Info. Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. The story of the National Road embraces an account of its building, its constitutional significance, the unique culture that it represented, the movements and trends that transpired across its route, and the symbolic value that it held, and continues to hold, for the American people. Beyond its status as an American heritage symbol, it serves as a forceful reminder that the United States must continue to pursue the goal of sustainable national investment that began with the National Road and comparable projects during the early republic.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject National Highway System.
National Highway System.
Public investments -- United States.
Public investments.
United States.
Transportation and state -- United States -- History.
Transportation and state.
History.
Cumberland Road.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Sky, Theodore, 1933- National Road and the difficult path to sustainable national investment. Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2011008715
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