Lifelines of Our Society
A Global History of Infrastructure
$84.44
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
5 September 2023
Summary
Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why are they all in such bad shape?
In Lifelines of Our Society, Dirk van Laak offers broad audiences a history of global infrastructures—focused on Western societies, over the past two hundred y…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262546386 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262546388 |
| Author: | Dirk van Laak, Paul N. Edwards |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 5 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Infrastructures |
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Critics Review
“Lifelines of Our Society is an engagingly written and well-researched book. Its panoramic view of infrastructures in their various forms and contexts offers a successful introduction to an abstract yet ubiquitous subject and an ideal entry point for further research on infrastructures worldwide.”
—Contemporary European History
“Dirk van Laak and Lifelines of Our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure certainly make a case that infrastructure matters.”
—Public Works Management & Policy
“Lifelines of Our Society could be useful in the repertoire of anyone interested in thinking seriously about infrastructure.”
—H-Net Reviews
Dirk van Laak
Dirk van Laak is Professor of History from the 19th to the 21st Century at Leipzig University.
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