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Title: History of roads
Creator: Schang, Donald Wooster
Date: 1940
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Neuengamme Concentration Camp : Entry road to the camp
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Neuengamme Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Entry road to the camp

Title: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp : Terezin street scene (for camp context)
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Terezin street scene (for camp context)

Title: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp : Terezin town streetscape; for camp context
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Terezin town streetscape; for camp context

Title: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp : Terezin town streetscape; for camp context
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Terezin town streetscape; for camp context

Title: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp : Terezin street scene with church and steeple (for camp context)
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Terezin street scene with church and steeple (for camp context)

Title: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp : Terezin street adjacent to fortress/camp
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Terezin street adjacent to fortress/camp

Title: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp : Entry road to fortress/camp main gate
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Entry road to fortress/camp main gate

Title: Belzec Concentration Camp : Entry road to camp site
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Belzec Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Entry road to camp site

Title: Majdanek Concentration Camp : View line from ashes memorial to main camp memorial
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Majdanek Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: View line from ashes memorial to main camp memorial

Title: Majdanek Concentration Camp : Road linking main camp memorial and ashes memorial
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Majdanek Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Road linking main camp memorial and ashes memorial

Title: Dachau Concentration Camp : Central axis road from sculpture to commemorative chapels
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Dachau Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Central axis road from sculpture to commemorative chapels

Title: Sobibór Concentration Camp : Road to Wlodawa with the camp on the left
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Sobibór Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Road to Wlodawa with the camp on the left

Title: Modernization bubu : cars, roads, and the politics of development in Tanzania, 1870s--1980s
Creator: Grace, Joshua Ryan
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The dominant historical narrative about Africans and technology in the twentieth-century is one of backwardness and underdevelopment. Though African contributions to technology or scientific knowledge are acknowledged during the pre-colonial era, they are rarely mentioned after European industrialization or the onset of colonialism. My research challenges this metanarrative by examining the manner in which Africans transformed motor vehicles and roads from European tools of empire into...
Show moreThe dominant historical narrative about Africans and technology in the twentieth-century is one of backwardness and underdevelopment. Though African contributions to technology or scientific knowledge are acknowledged during the pre-colonial era, they are rarely mentioned after European industrialization or the onset of colonialism. My research challenges this metanarrative by examining the manner in which Africans transformed motor vehicles and roads from European tools of empire into African technologies that could be used for different social, political, and economic goals. It focuses on five main themes: (1) Racial and gendered hierarchies of technology; (2) African histories of innovation and development; (3) The global politics of expertise; (4) The importance of technology and mobility to African identities; (5) The relationship between technology and economic liberation.Modernization is most often analyzed as a Western imposition upon passive African societies in need of technological assistance. My dissertation departs from this assumption by presenting modernization as a global process that was given shape and meaning by the knowledge and technological practices of local actors. In colonial repair garages, young men used access to automotive knowledge to create new forms of colonial personhood and challenge racial hierarchies of knowledge; after independence, they staked their careers and lives upon their creativity and ability to make a global machine commensurate with local economies of repair. On Tanzanian roads, African men and women upset ideologies of social and economic health by turning tools of social and economic engineering into vehicles for personal development. Instead of passive targets of technologically based interventions, this project reveals Africans as flexible and innovative technologists whose labor and ideas are crucial to understanding larger processes of modernization and development.My work makes at least three contributions to historical literature. (1) It replaces Eurocentric histories of development with the views and experiences of Africans who built personal and collective futures through car expertise or road travel. Instead of being targets of development schemes, my project analyses Africans as agents of development whose knowledge and labor are critical for understanding modernization in colonial and post-colonial periods. In particular, this research provides an alternative to state-based narratives of technology, governance, and development by using oral history, personal archives, and historical ethnographic methods. (2) My work shows the significance of technology to African identities in the twentieth-century. In contrast to colonial and post-colonial narratives that portray Africans as racially incompatible with modern technology, this research shows how cars, roads, and automobility became an integral part of African personhood. In particular, it reveals the importance of technology for contesting racial and gender social orders throughout the twentieth-century. (3) This research provides a new approach to modernity, technology, and expertise in World History by highlighting the contributions and achievements of African historical actors. In contrast to global historical narratives that describe Africa's twentieth-century through dominance and decline, this research reveals spaces of technological innovation and creativity that are critical for reevaluating World History from the perspective of historical actors in the Global South.
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Title: The road from London to York
Creator: Gibson, J. (John), active 1750-1792
Date: 1766
Collection: Maps
Description: Map of a road from London to York via Stamford, Grantham, Newark-on-Trent, and Doncaster, depicted in ten narrow strips. Shows cities and towns, mile markers, rivers, and road junctions.

Title: The tourist's pocket map of Michigan : exhibiting its internal improvements, roads, distances, &c
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
Date: 1839
Collection: Maps

Title: A map of the roads from London thro' Oxford, Worcester &c. to Aberistwith : The road from Bristol to Exeter
Date: 1765
Collection: Maps
Description: Two maps depicting roads in narrow strips. One shows a road in southern England from London to Aberistwith [Aberistwyth], Wales, via Uxbridge, Oxford, Worcester, and Prestain [Presteigne], through Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Herefordshire in England, and Radnorshire and Cardiganshire in Wales. The first map also shows an alternate road "To Worcester thro' Campden commencing at the Four Shire Stones". The other map shows a road from Bristol to...
Show moreTwo maps depicting roads in narrow strips. One shows a road in southern England from London to Aberistwith [Aberistwyth], Wales, via Uxbridge, Oxford, Worcester, and Prestain [Presteigne], through Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Herefordshire in England, and Radnorshire and Cardiganshire in Wales. The first map also shows an alternate road "To Worcester thro' Campden commencing at the Four Shire Stones". The other map shows a road from Bristol to Bath and a road from Bristol to Exeter via Taunton, through Somersetshire and Devonshire. Both maps show cities and towns, mile markers, rivers, and road junctions.
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Title: An ecological approach for highway routing in Michigan
Creator: Davis, Phillip Burton
Date: 1979
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: A public highway system for Van Buren county, Michigan
Creator: Ward, Homer M.
Date: 1932
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The Autobahn, Germany's express highway system
Creator: Herr, Gerald Ervin
Date: 1949
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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