The Technical Development Of Roads In Britain
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Author | : Graham West |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351723499 |
This title was first published in 2003. The history of roads in Great Britain has not been one of steady development, but rather, one that has waxed and waned in response to social, military and economic needs, and also as to whether there have been alternative methods of transport available. Paralleling this, the technical aspects of road construction - with the one great exception of Roman roads - can be seen as a fitful progression of improvement followed by neglect as the roadmaker has responded, albeit tardily on occasion, to the needs of the road user. This text describes the technical development of British roads in relation to the needs of the time, and thereby touches upon its relation to the history of the country more generally.
Author | : Jo Guldi |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0674264134 |
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.
Author | : M.C. Bishop |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2014-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473837472 |
There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the course of British military history during subsequent ages. The author starts with the pre-Roman origins of the network (many Roman roads being built over prehistoric routes) before describing how the Roman army built, developed, maintained and used it. Then, uniquely, he moves on to the post-Roman history of the roads. He shows how they were crucial to medieval military history (try to find a medieval battle that is not near one) and the governance of the realm, fixing the itinerary of the royal progresses. Their legacy is still clear in the building of 18th century military roads and even in the development of the modern road network. Why have some parts of the network remained in use throughout?The text is supported with clear maps and photographs. Most books on Roman roads are concerned with cataloguing or tracing them, or just dealing with aspects like surveying. This one makes them part of military landscape archaeology.
Author | : Jonathan H. Grossman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199644195 |
Explores the rise of the passenger transport network in the nineteenth century and the impact it made on Dickens's work.
Author | : Carlton Reid |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2015-04-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1610916891 |
In Roads Were Not Built for Cars, Carlton Reid reveals the pivotal—and largely unrecognized—role that bicyclists played in the development of modern roadways. Reid introduces readers to cycling personalities, such as Henry Ford, and the cycling advocacy groups that influenced early road improvements, literally paving the way for the motor car. When the bicycle morphed from the vehicle of rich transport progressives in the 1890s to the “poor man’s transport” in the 1920s, some cyclists became ardent motorists and were all too happy to forget their cycling roots. But, Reid explains, many motor pioneers continued cycling, celebrating the shared links between transport modes that are now seen as worlds apart. In this engaging and meticulously researched book, Carlton Reid encourages us all to celebrate those links once again.
Author | : Scott Rode |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0415978386 |
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Hugh Davies |
Publisher | : Shire Publications |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related Agencies Appropriations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1768 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Economic assistance, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1758 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joe Moran |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847654932 |
In this history of roads and what they have meant to the people who have driven them, one of Britain's favourite cultural historians reveals how a relatively simple road system turned into a maze-like pattern of roundabouts, flyovers, and spaghetti junctions. Using a unique blend of travel writing, anthropology, history and social observation, he explores how Britain's roads have their roots in unexpected places, from Napoleon's role in the numbering system to the surprising origin of sat-nav. Full of quirky nuggets of history, such as the day trips organised to see the construction of the M1 and the 2.5m Mills and Boons used to build the M6 Toll Road, On Roads also celebrates innovators whose work we take for granted, such as the designers of the road sign system. On subjects ranging from speed limits to driving on the left, and the 'non-places where we stop to the unwritten laws of traffic jams, these hidden stories have never been told together, until now.