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Könyv Roads to Power Jo Guldi

Roads to Power

Britain Invents the Infrastructure State

Szerző: Jo Guldi
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: Harvard University Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-21 napon belül
22 989 Ft
Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, ho...

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Szerző
Jo Guldi
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2020
oldal
320
EAN
9780674057593
ISBN
0674057597
Enbook ID
04635572
Kiadó
Harvard University Press
Súly
606
Méretek
164 x 237 x 24

Teljes leírás

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 them in unforeseen ways. The highway network led to contests for control over everything from road management to market access. Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they could not afford, while English counties wanted to be spared the cost of underwriting roads to Scotland. The new network also transformed social relationships. Although travelers moved along the same routes, they occupied increasingly isolated spheres. The roads were the product of a new form of government, the infrastructure state, marked by the unprecedented control bureaucrats wielded over decisions relating to everyday life. Does information really work to unite strangers? Do markets unite nations and peoples in common interests? There are lessons here for all who would end poverty or design their markets around the principle of participation. Guldi draws direct connections between traditional infrastructure and the contemporary collapse of the American Rust Belt, the decline of American infrastructure, the digital divide, and net neutrality. In the modern world, infrastructure is our principal tool for forging new communities, but it cannot outlast the control of governance by visionaries.

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