Paving the Way New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956

Name: Paving the Way New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956
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ISBN: 9780700615629

ISBN-10: 0700615628

ISBN-13: 9780700615629

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael R. Fein

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Most historians have credited New Deal initiatives in economic regulation and social welfare policy with bringing about the modern American state. Michael Fein now reveals the surprising story of how road building paved the way to the modern state during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how public works policy emerged as a third critical pillar in support of state building. Paving the Way shows that the growing transportation needs of a steadily industrializing nation reconfigured state politics, bringing about a revolution in governance as it reshaped the landscape. Examining state and local policy developments from half a century before the New Deal, Fein describes…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 3/4/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 326
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.62" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Old Ways: The Local Road-Building Regime in Late-Nineteenth-Century New York



New Ways: The Emergence of a Subfederal Road-Building Regime, 1898-1919



Highways: State-Centered Bureaucracy and the Elevation of Engineer-Administrators, 1919-1931



Clearing the Way: Depression, War, and the Nationalization of the Bureaucratic Regime, 1931-1945



Authority: The Thruway and the Consolidation of the Bureaucratic Regime, 1945-1956


Conclusion: Warning Signs: Weak Points in the Bureaucratic Regime


Notes


Bibliography


Index