America's First Interstate The National Road, 1806-1853
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The Kent State University Press
2020
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: "The touch of a feather": The Highway Came with the Sun
- Chapter Two: "The most effectual cement of union": Planning the Road
- Chapter Three: "Entirely in the woods": Construction to the Ohio
- Chapter Four: "A scene of zeal and industry": Construction through Ohio
- Chapter Five: "Embarrassments and difficulties from the beginning": Construction through Indiana and Illinois
- Chapter Six: "An instructive admonition": The States Take Control
- Chapter Seven: "An indefinite impression of great abuse": State Control of the Road
- Chapter Eight: "You are sure to be passed by Pete Burdine": The Traveler's Road
- Chapter Nine: "Truly worthy of a great nation": Responses to the Traveler's Road
- Chapter Ten: "It kicked up a dust": The Post Road
- Chapter Eleven: "A peculiar class of men": The Working Road
- Chapter Twelve: "A continual stream": The Moving Road
- Afterword: Decline, Rise, and Nostalgia
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index