Author: Elbert Floyd-JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Milestones
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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A Relic of the Highway
Author: Elbert Floyd-JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Milestones
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The MacArthur Highway and Other Relics of American Empire in the Philippines
Author: Joseph P. McCallusPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597974978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines. Although the nation was given its independence in 1946, American cultural authority remains. In order to locate and lend significance to the relics of American empire, Joseph McCallus retraces the route Gen. Douglas MacArthur took during his liberation of the country from the Japanese in 1944 and 1945. While following MacArthur's footsteps, he provides a historical and geographical account of this iconic soldier's military career, accompanied by a description of the contemporary Philippine landscape. McCallus uses the past and the present to explore how America influenced the country's political and educational systems and language, as well as the ramifications of the continued U.S. military presence and the effects of globalization on traditional Filipino society. He examines the American influence on its architecture and introduces to the reader the American expatriate business community—people who have lived in the Philippines for decades and continue to help shape the nation. The MacArthur Highway and Other Relics of American Empire in the Philippines is an absorbing look at how American military intervention and colonial rule have indelibly shaped a nation decades after the fact.
The National Road
Author: Karl B. RaitzPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851551
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
From there two routes went west toward the Mississippi River, one to East St. Louis and the other to Alton, Illinois. (Today the Road's path is followed, for the most part, by U.S. 40 and I-70.).
Highway Topics
Author: Good Roads
Author: L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads
Author: First[-eighth] Annual Report of the Commissioner of Highways for the State of Maine
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Author: Maine. State Highway DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
East Belt Freeway, I-30 to I-40 Connector, Little Rock
Author: Historic Highways of America
Author: Archer Butler HulbertPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849674932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. Indian Thoroughfares. Washington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War. Braddock's Road. The Old Glade (Forbes's) Road. Boone's Wilderness Road. Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent. Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin. Waterways of Westward Expansion. The Cumberland Road. Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes). The Great American Canals (two volumes). The Future of Road-Making in America. When this West was in its teens and began suddenly outstripping itself, to the marvel of the world, one of the momentous factors in its progress was the building of a great national road, from the Potomac River to the Mississippi River, by the United States Government—a highway seven hundred miles in length, at a cost of seven millions of treasure. This ribbon of road, winding its way through Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, toward the Mississippi, was one of the most important steps in that movement of national expansion which followed the conquest of the West.
Threshermen's Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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