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Author:

Ingram, Tammy.

Title:

Dixie Highway : road building and the making of the modern South, 1900-1930 / Tammy Ingram.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 255 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Dixie Highway--History.
Roads--Southern States--History--History--20th century.
Roads--Southern States--History--20th century.
Transportation--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Transportation--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Express highways--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Express highways--History--United States--History--20th century.
Southern States--Politics and government--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--1901-1953.

Other Authors:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center for the Study of the American South.

Notes:

"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. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Building a good roads movement, 1900-1913 -- The road to Dixie, 1914-1915 -- Roads at war, 1917-1919 -- Modern highways and chain gang labor, 1919-1924 -- Paved with politics : business and bureaucracy in Georgia, 1924-1927.

ISBN:

1469612984 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9781469612980 (cloth : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)854761773

LCCN:

2013029961

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)