The National Road and the difficult path to sustainable national investment [electronic resource] / Theodore Sky.
Sky, Theodore, 1933-
2011
HE356.C8 S49 2011eb
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Title The National Road and the difficult path to sustainable national investment [electronic resource] / Theodore Sky.
Author Sky, Theodore, 1933-
ISBN 9781611490213 (electronic bk.)
9781611490206
Publication Details Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 295 p.) : ill.
Call Number HE356.C8 S49 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 388.1/220973
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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