Paving the way : New York road building and the American state, 1880 - 1956

Old ways: the local road-building regime in late-nineteenth-century New York -- New ways: the emergence of a subfederal road-building regime, 1898-1919 -- Highways: state-centered bureaucracy and the elevation of engineer-administrators, 1919-1930 -- Clearing the way: depression, war, and the nationalization of the bureaucratic regime, 1931-1945 -- Authority: the Thruway and the consolidation of the bureaucratic regime, 1945-1956 -- Conclusion: warning signs