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Getting Out of the Mud - The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898-1928 (Paperback)
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Getting Out of the Mud - The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898-1928 (Paperback)
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Recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in
progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to
achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and
highways for automobiles Getting Out of the Mud: The Alabama Good
Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898-1928 explores the
history of the Good Roads Movement and investigates the nature of
early twentieth-century progressivism in the state. Martin T.
Olliff reveals how middle-class reformers secured political,
economic, and social power not only by fighting against corporate
domination and labor recalcitrance but also by proposing
alternative projects like road improvement and identifying the
interests of the rising middle class as being the most important to
public interest. With the development of national markets in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans began to
regard the nation as a whole, rather than their state or region, as
the most important political entity. Many Alabamians wished to
travel beyond their local communities in all seasons without
getting stuck in the mud of rudimentary rutted dirt roads. The
onset of the automobile age bolstered the need for roadmaking,
alerting both automobilists and good roads advocates to the
possibility of a new transportation infrastructure. The Good Roads
Movement began promoting farm-to-market roads, then highways that
linked cities, then those that connected states. Federal matching
funds for road construction after 1916 led state and federal
governments to supplant the Good Roads Movement, building and
administering the highway system that emerged by the late 1920s.
Olliff's study of how Alabamians dealt with strained resources and
overcame serious political obstacles in order to construct a road
system that would accommodate economic growth in the twentieth
century may offer clues to the resurrection of a similar strategy
in our modern era. Many problems are unchanged over the hundred
years between crises: Alabamians demand good roads and a government
that has the capacity to build and maintain such an infrastructure
while, at the same time, citizens are voting into office men and
women who promise lower taxes and smaller government.
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