Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Dixie Highway: Road Building And The Making Of The Modern South, 1900-1930ISBN13:9781469629827ISBN10:1469629828Author:Ingram, Tammy (Author)Description:At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century, Good Highways Eluded Most Americans And Nearly All Southerners In Their Place, A Jumble Of Dirt Roads Covered The Region Like A Bed Of Briars Introduced In 1915, The Dixie Highway Changed All That By Merging Hundreds Of Short Roads Into Dual Interstate Routes That Looped From Michigan To Miami And Back In Connecting The North And The South, The Dixie Highway Helped End Regional Isolation And Served As A Model For Future Interstates In This Book, Tammy Ingram Offers The First Comprehensive Study Of The Nation's Earliest Attempt To Build A Highway Network, Revealing How The Modern U S Transportation System Evolved Out Of The Hard-Fought Political, Economic, And Cultural Contests That Surrounded The Dixie's Creation The Most Visible Success Of The Progressive Era Good Roads Movement, The Dixie Highway Also Became Its Biggest Casualty It Sparked A National Dialogue About The Power Of Federal And State Agencies, The Role Of Local Government, And The Influence Of Ordinary Citizens In The South, It Caused A Backlash Against Highway Bureaucracy That Stymied Road Building For Decades Yet Ingram Shows That After The Dixie Highway, The Region Was Never The Same Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PRPublication Date:2016-08-01Weight:0.91 lbsDimensions:0.74'' H x 9.27'' L x 6.12'' WNumber of Pages:272Language:English
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Book Title: Dixie Highway : Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6.1in
Author: Tammy Ingram
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 20th Century, Civil / Highway & Traffic, General, Automotive / General, American Government / General, Civil / General
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Transportation, History, Political Science
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
