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Dixie Highway : road building and the making of the modern South, 1900-1930 / Tammy Ingram.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781469612980
  • ISBN: 1469612984
  • ISBN: 9781469629827
  • Physical Description: xiv, 255 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Sponsored by the postdoctoral fellows program at the Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Building a good roads movement, 1900-1913 -- The road to Dixie, 1914-1915 -- Roads at war, 1917-1919 -- Modern highways and chain gang labor, 1919-1924 -- Paved with politics : business and bureaucracy in Georgia, 1924-1927.
Subject:
Roads > Southern States > Design and construction > History > 20th century.
Roads > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Transportation > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Transportation > Political aspects > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Express highways > Political aspects > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Express highways > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Dixie Highway > History.
Southern States > Politics and government > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1901-1953.

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