The National Road and the difficult path to sustainable national investment [electronic resource] / Theodore Sky.

9781611490213 (electronic bk.)
9781611490206

Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2011.

English

1 online resource (xii, 295 p.) : ill.

HE356.C8 S49 2011eb

388.1/220973

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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