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Reveals the story of how road building paved the way to the modern state during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how public works policy emerged as a third critical pillar in support of state building. This work shows that the growing transportation needs of a steadily industrializing nation reconfigured state politics.

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Fein offers keen interpretive insights about the contested policies and politics that shaped a complex American federalism in the twentieth century. His book makes a compelling argument for the importance of public works policy in the evolution of American political development and makes a significant contribution to U.S. transportation and mobility history. Raymond A. Mohl, author of The Making of Urban America ""A path-breaking and indispensable book for understanding the evolution of the American highway network."" Clay McShane, author of Down the Asphalt Path: American Cities and the Automobile ""A conceptually very important book."" Mark H. Rose, author of Interstate: Express Highway Politics

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      Publisher: MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas
      Publication Date: 3/4/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780700615629, 978-0700615629
      ISBN10: 0700615628
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reveals the story of how road building paved the way to the modern state during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how public works policy emerged as a third critical pillar in support of state building. This work shows that the growing transportation needs of a steadily industrializing nation reconfigured state politics.

      Trade Review
      Fein offers keen interpretive insights about the contested policies and politics that shaped a complex American federalism in the twentieth century. His book makes a compelling argument for the importance of public works policy in the evolution of American political development and makes a significant contribution to U.S. transportation and mobility history. Raymond A. Mohl, author of The Making of Urban America ""A path-breaking and indispensable book for understanding the evolution of the American highway network."" Clay McShane, author of Down the Asphalt Path: American Cities and the Automobile ""A conceptually very important book."" Mark H. Rose, author of Interstate: Express Highway Politics

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