LEADER 02682nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910461398203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-22468-2 010 $a9786613224682 010 $a1-61149-021-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000107865 035 $a(EBL)744851 035 $a(OCoLC)745866992 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001147519 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12447709 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001147519 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11141110 035 $a(PQKB)11246245 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC744851 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL744851 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492796 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL322468 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000107865 100 $a20110303d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe National Road and the difficult path to sustainable national investment$b[electronic resource] /$fTheodore Sky 210 $aNewark $cUniversity of Delaware Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61149-489-3 311 $a1-61149-020-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 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. 330 $aThe 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.