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toanoradian posted:These past few weeks I've been reading books that cover the history of a very specific subject. Don't know if there's a term for these. I've read Bread: A Global History, which was good and Library: An Unquiet History, which was great. Do these count as history books? If so, can someone recommend similar books? There's also Steven Solomon's recent "Water", but with the subtitle, "The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization," it's not so narrow a topic.
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head58 posted:Any recommendations for something on the planning/logistics/development of the interstate highway system in the US ? Might be tangential to your question, but Robert Caro (later famous for his ongoing multi-volume biography of LBJ) wrote a 1300 pg biography of Robert Moses, the man behind billions of dollars worth of city planning projects and highway development in New York (city and upstate). If you're interested in 'planning/logistics' in the sense of politicking, rather than engineering, it's what you're looking for.
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