Roads to Power Britain Invents the Infrastructure State |
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| Author:
| Guldi, Jo |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-05759-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $95.95 |
Book Description:
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Guldi narrates 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. The new infrastructure state saw unprecedented control by bureaucrats over everyday life and gave rise to competing visions of community still debated today.
Guldi narrates 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. The new infrastructure state saw unprecedented control by bureaucrats over everyday life and gave rise to competing visions of community still debated today.