Roads To Power
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Roads To Power
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Author : Jo Guldi
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Roads To Power written by Jo Guldi and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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.
Highways To The End Of The World
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Author : Edward Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Release Date : 2022-11-04
Highways To The End Of The World written by Edward Simpson and has been published by Hurst Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-04 with Social Science categories.
This book argues that road-building was naturalised in the twentieth century to the point of common sense, integrating roadbuilding into a system of climate change denial hidden within a broad international development imperative. But if we can ‘read’ South Asian roads as forms of governance and knowledge, we can challenge the region’s established geopolitical narratives, and the idea of a never-ending future. Highways to the End of the World explores the political economy of these ideas by focusing on the history of this phenomenon, and on the road-builders of South Asia themselves. How do these flamboyant and controversial ‘roadmen’ think about their work and the future of the planet? What do roads do, and why? And how did they become central to the region’s nationalist and developmental projects in the first place? Simpson’s fascinating ethnographic account takes us from fume-filled toll booths in the heart of India, via overworked government offices in Pakistan, to pharaonic bridges in the Indian Ocean. Simpson follows the money, explores the politics of evidence, and argues against the utopian hyperbole of present-day ‘road talk’, finding both humanitarian crises and freewheeling international capital in the hedgerows. Roads have never been so interesting, or so controversial.
Geocultural Power
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Author : Tim Winter
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-09-30
Geocultural Power written by Tim Winter and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with History categories.
Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and maritime connectivity stretching across more than sixty countries and incorporating almost two-thirds of the world’s population. But what does it mean to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century? Geocultural Power explores this question by considering how China is couching its strategy for building trade, foreign relations, and energy and political security in an evocative topography of history. Until now Belt and Road has been discussed as a geopolitical and geoeconomic project. This book introduces geocultural power to the analysis of international affairs. Tim Winter highlights how many countries—including Iran, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and others—are revisiting their histories to find points of diplomatic and cultural connection. Through the revived Silk Roads, China becomes the new author of Eurasian history and the architect of the bridge between East and West. In a diplomatic dance of forgetting, episodes of violence, invasion, and bloodshed are left behind for a language of history and heritage that crosses borders in ways that further the trade ambitions of an increasingly networked China-driven economy.
Roads To Dominion
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Author : Sara Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Guilford Press
Release Date : 1995-09-08
Roads To Dominion written by Sara Diamond and has been published by Guilford Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-08 with Political Science categories.
Diamond looks at conservative politics in the United States from World War II to the post-Reagan years.
Five Roads To The Future
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Author : Paul Starobin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-05-28
Five Roads To The Future written by Paul Starobin and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-28 with Political Science categories.
Farsighted and fascinating predictions for a new world order Veteran international correspondent Paul Starobin masterfully mixes fresh reportage with rigorous historical analysis to envision a world in which the United States is no longer the dominant superpower. Following an insightful study of America's global ascendency, Starobin provides the reasons for America's waning influence and explores five possible paths for the future, each of which is already in the making: A global chaos that could be dark or happy; a multipolar order of nation-states; a global Chinese imperium; an age of global city-states; or a universal civilization leading to world government. Starobin's tone is somber but in the end hopeful-the world after America need not be a disaster for America, and may even be liberating.
Geocultural Power
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Author : Tim Winter
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-09-30
Geocultural Power written by Tim Winter and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with History categories.
Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and maritime connectivity stretching across more than sixty countries and incorporating almost two-thirds of the world’s population. But what does it mean to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century? Geocultural Power explores this question by considering how China is couching its strategy for building trade, foreign relations, and energy and political security in an evocative topography of history. Until now Belt and Road has been discussed as a geopolitical and geoeconomic project. This book introduces geocultural power to the analysis of international affairs. Tim Winter highlights how many countries—including Iran, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and others—are revisiting their histories to find points of diplomatic and cultural connection. Through the revived Silk Roads, China becomes the new author of Eurasian history and the architect of the bridge between East and West. In a diplomatic dance of forgetting, episodes of violence, invasion, and bloodshed are left behind for a language of history and heritage that crosses borders in ways that further the trade ambitions of an increasingly networked China-driven economy.
Roads To Power In Latin America
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Author : Louis Mercier Vega
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Roads To Power In Latin America written by Louis Mercier Vega and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Latin America categories.
All Roads Lead To Power
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Author : Kaitlin N. Sidorsky
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2019-05-17
All Roads Lead To Power written by Kaitlin N. Sidorsky and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-17 with Social Science categories.
Speaking of cabinet appointments he’d made as governor, presidential candidate Mitt Romney famously spoke of having “whole binders full of women” to consider. The line was much mocked; and yet, Kaitlin Sidorsky suggests, it raises a point long overlooked in discussions of the gender gap in politics: many more women are appointed, rather than elected, to political office. Analyzing an original survey of political appointments at all levels of state government, All Roads Lead to Power offers an expanded, more nuanced view of women in politics. This book also questions the manner in which political ambition, particularly among women, is typically studied and understood. In a deep comparative analysis of appointed and elected state positions, All Roads Lead to Power highlights how the differences between being appointed or elected explain why so many more women serve in appointed offices. These women, Sidorsky finds, are not always victims of a much-cited lack of self-confidence or ambition, or of a biased political sphere. More often, they make a conscious decision to enter politics through what they believe is a far less partisan and negative entry point. Furthermore, Sidorsky’s research reveals that many women end up in political appointments—at all levels—not because they are ambitious to hold public office, but because the work connects with their personal lives or careers. With its groundbreaking research and insights into the ambitions, recruitment, and motivations of appointed officials, Sidorsky’s work broadens our conception of political representation and alters our understanding of how and why women pursue and achieve political power.
Motor Cars
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Author : Alexander James Wallis-Tayler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Motor Cars written by Alexander James Wallis-Tayler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Automobiles categories.
A Practical Treatise On Rail Roads And Carriages Shewing The Principles Of Estimating Their Strength Proportions Expense And Annual Produce Etc
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Author : Thomas TREDGOLD
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1835
A Practical Treatise On Rail Roads And Carriages Shewing The Principles Of Estimating Their Strength Proportions Expense And Annual Produce Etc written by Thomas TREDGOLD and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1835 with Railroad engineering categories.