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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789758403321
• Autore: Sky Theodore <1933->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newark, : University of Delaware Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-22468-2; 9786613224682; 1-61149-021-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Disciplina: 388.1/220973
• Soggetti: National Highway System; Transportation and state - United States - History; Public investments - United States; Cumberland Road
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.</