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1 online resource (309 pages) |
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. THE GREAT DEBATES ABOUT THE NATIONAL ROAD; The Constitution ofthe United States; CHAPTER 1. Washington's Role; CHAPTER 2. Jefferson, Gallatin, and the Legislation of 1806; CHAPTER 3. Madison: CONSTRUCTION IN THE SHADOW OF WAR AND THE BONUS BILL VETO; CHAPTER 4. Monroe's Compromise and the Tollgate Battle; CHAPTER 5. John Quincy Adams and the High-Water Mark of the National Road as a National Road; CHAPTER 6. Andrew Jackson and the Transfer of the National Road to the States |
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CHAPTER 7. The National Road and the Law, Politics, and Policy of Internal ImprovementPart II. THE NATIONAL ROADIN ITS PRIME; CHAPTER 8. Laying Out and Building the National Road; CHAPTER 9. Confronting Problems in Road Construction East of the Ohio in the Madison and Monroe Years: AN ARCHIVAL ACCOUNT; CHAPTER 10. The Culture of the National Road in Its Prime; CHAPTER 11. The Road as a Microcosm of Early-Republic America; Part III. THE DECLINE AND REVIVAL OF THE ROAD, ITS ROLE AS A PRECURSOR OF THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM, AND ITS PLACE AS A NATIONAL SYMBOL |
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CHAPTER 12. The Decline and Revival of the RoadCHAPTER 13. The National Road, the Creation of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, and the Post-Interstate Era: The Origins of the Dwight D. EisenhowerInterstate Highway System; CHAPTER 14. The National Road as National Symbol; Part IV. TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY LEGACY; CHAPTER 15. The National Road and the Enduring Role of the Federal Spending Power; CHAPTER 16. A National Road Perspective on America's Twenty-First-Century Infrastructure Challenges |
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Epilogue: THE NATIONAL ROAD, THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT, AND SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL INVESTMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYAppendix: National Road Time Line; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
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 cul |
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Print version record |
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National Highway System.
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Transportation and state -- United States -- History
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Public investments -- United States
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National Highway System
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Public investments
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Transportation and state
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| SUBJECT |
Cumberland Road. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034782
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United States
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United States -- Cumberland Road
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781611490213 |
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1611490219 |
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