03866nam 2200625 a 450 991046126930332120200520144314.00-674-06288-410.4159/harvard.9780674062887(CKB)2670000000137016(OCoLC)770009462(CaPaEBR)ebrary10522594(SSID)ssj0000571238(PQKBManifestationID)11392896(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000571238(PQKBWorkID)10611288(PQKB)11687280(MiAaPQ)EBC3301029(DE-B1597)178285(OCoLC)840447134(DE-B1597)9780674062887(Au-PeEL)EBL3301029(CaPaEBR)ebr10522594(EXLCZ)99267000000013701620110414d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRoads to power[electronic resource] Britain invents the infrastructure state /Jo GuldiCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20121 online resource (310 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-05759-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Military craft and parliamentary expertise : the institutional evolution of road-making -- Colonizing at home : the political lobby for centralizing highways -- Paying to walk : the national movement against centralized roads -- Wayfaring strangers : mobile communities and the death of contact.Roads to Power tells the story of 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. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways connecting every village and island in the nation-and also dividing them in unforeseen ways. The highway network led to contests for control over everything from road management to market access. Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they could not afford, while English counties wanted to be spared the cost of underwriting roads to Scotland. The new network also transformed social relationships. Although travelers moved along the same routes, they occupied increasingly isolated spheres. The roads were the product of a new form of government, the infrastructure state, marked by the unprecedented control bureaucrats wielded over decisions relating to everyday life.Does information really work to unite strangers? Do markets unite nations and peoples in common interests? There are lessons here for all who would end poverty or design their markets around the principle of participation. Guldi draws direct connections between traditional infrastructure and the contemporary collapse of the American Rust Belt, the decline of American infrastructure, the digital divide, and net neutrality. In the modern world, infrastructure is our principal tool for forging new communities, but it cannot outlast the control of governance by visionaries.Infrastructure (Economics)Great BritainRoadsGovernment policyGreat BritainTransportation and stateGreat BritainElectronic books.Infrastructure (Economics)RoadsGovernment policyTransportation and state388.10941ZO 4050rvkGuldi Jo(Joanna),1978-750862MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461269303321Roads to power2452507UNINA00514nam##22001337##450#99105515518033219788859608769########d########u##y0engy50####ba########00###Campolmi : la fabbrica della cultura : il recupero dell'antica Cimatoria Campolmi di Prato per il Museo del tessuto e la biblioteca della città / Marco Mattei ; presentazioni, Roberto Cenni ... [et al.].Mattei, Marco.343729910551551803321Campolmi2433707UNINA00771nam a22002297i 450099100438233320753620250527114245.0250527s2002----fr er 001 0bfre d2204070122Bibl. Dip.le Aggr. Studi Umanistici - Sez. FilosofiaitaSocioculturale Scsfre273.723Weaver, F. Ellen1820862Mademoiselle de Joncoux :polemique janseniste a la veille de la bulle Unigenitus /Ellen F. WeaverParis :Les editions du Cerf,2002357 p. ;24 cm.HistoireJoncoux, Françoise-MargueriteBiografieHistoire991004382333207536Mademoiselle de Joncoux4383665UNISALENTO