Highway History Bibliography

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General and Travel

Albert, William, The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840, Cambridge University Press, 2006. (listed 09/02/08)

Barker, Theo, and Gerhold, Dorian, The Rise and Rise of Road Transportation, 1700-1990, Cambridge University Press, 1993. (A survey of road transportation in Britain over the past 3 centuries.) (listed 09/02/08)

Howard, Thomas Frederick, Sierra Crossing: First Roads to California, University of California Press, 1998. (listed 09/02/08)

McDonald, Shannon Sanders, The Parking Garage: Design and Evolution of a Modern Urban Form, Urban Land Institute, 2007. (listed 08/20/08)

Rasenberger, Jim, America 1908, Scribner, 2007. (Narrative of a year in which Henry Ford unveiled the Model T, the Wright Brothers demonstrated that flight was here to stay, automobilists competed in the New York to Paris race, the Navy sailed around the world to demonstrate America's new role in world affairs, and President Teddy Roosevelt summoned the Nation's Governors to the White House for a 3-day meeting on conservation - among many other fascinating events.) (listed 08/20/08)

Rugh, Susan Sessions, Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations, University Press of Kansas, 2008. (The rise and fall of the family vacation in the post-World War II era to the early 1970s.) (listed 08/20/08)

Magazine Articles

Bilger, Burkhard, "The Long Dig," The New Yorker, September 15, 2008. (Covers the development of tunnels technology, the history of tunnel construction in Switzerland, and how tunnels transformed the Swiss economy.) (listed 09/22/08)

Routes

Dickinson, W. Calvin, The Walton Road: A Nineteenth Century Wilderness Highway in Tennessee, Self-published, 2007. (Available from Amazon.com.) (listed 09/02/08)

Taylor, Michael C., Road of Difficulties: Building the Lower Columbia River Highway, Bear Creek Press, 2008. (The story of the almost forgotten road from Portland to the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, the twin of the upper route through the Historic Columbia River Highway.) (listed 09/02/08)

State Highway Histories

Fein, Michael R., Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956, University Press of Kansas, 2008. (listed 08/28/08)