Roads to Power

by Jo Guldi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674057597
• ISBN13: 9780674057593
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"