Jo Guldi Roads to Power Britain Invents the Inf

Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State Guldi Jo Wydawca: Harvard University Press Data wydania: 2020 ISBN: 9780674057593 Liczba stron: 320 Format: 237 x 164 x 24 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: 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.