Roads to power: britain invents the infrastructure state
Auteur :
Guldi, Jo
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674057593
Date de publication :
2 janv. 2012
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Guldi narrates 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. The new infrastructure state saw unprecedented control by bureaucrats over everyday life and gave rise to competing visions of community still debated today.