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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
National League for Good Roads
Author: Proceedings of the Convention of the National League for Good Roads Held at Washington, D.C., January 17 and 18, 1893
Author: The League of American Wheelmen and the Good-roads Movement, 1880-1905
Author: Philip Parker MasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
L.A.W. bulletin and good roads: official organ of the League of American Wheelmen
Author: Коллектив авторовPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5881406990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Good Roads
Author: Good Roads Magazine
Author: Proceedings of the Convention of the National League for Good Roads Held at Washington, D.C., January 17 and 18, 1893
Author: Albert Augustus PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Compilation of opinions of managers and presidents of transportation lines on the necessity of better country roads, printed to be sent to editors of U.S. newspapers.
The Longest Line on the Map
Author: Eric RutkowPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150110392X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century’s worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highway’s history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading memories. In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature, the Pan-American Highway—the United States’ other great twentieth-century hemispheric infrastructure project—has become an orphan of the past, effectively erased from the story of the “American Century.” The Longest Line on the Map uncovers this incredible tale for the first time and weaves it into a tapestry that fascinates, informs, and delights. Rutkow’s narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question: Why couldn’t the Americas have become a single region that “is” and not two near irreconcilable halves that “are”? Whether you’re fascinated by the history of the Americas, or you’ve dreamed of driving around the globe, or you simply love world records and the stories behind them, The Longest Line on the Map is a riveting narrative, a lost epic of hemispheric scale.
L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads
Author: Dirt Roads to Dixie
Author: Howard Lawrence PrestonPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
At the conclusion of the nineteenth century, one of the issues that attracted the attention of reformers in the South was road improvements. Populists who subscribed to the tenets of the good roads movement sought to provide farmers with better access to markets, make the cultural and employment opportunities of cities more available, and perhaps even halt the mass exodus of young people from the farms.