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Dixie Highway
Tammy Ingram
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Description for Dixie Highway
Paperback. "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. Num Pages: 272 pages, 21 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; TNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back. In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates. In this book, Tammy Ingram offers the first comprehensive study of the nation's earliest attempt to build a highway ... Read more
At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back. In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates. In this book, Tammy Ingram offers the first comprehensive study of the nation's earliest attempt to build a highway ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469629827
SKU
V9781469629827
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About Tammy Ingram
Tammy Ingram is assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston, USA.
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