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THE SAGA OF AMERICAN
INFRASTRUCTURE
until fairly recently, few historians paid se- rious attention to such seemingly humble matters as sewerage, solid waste, and stormwater management. Today a growing body of public-works history sheds valuable light not only on our contemporary infrastruc- ture problems but on some of the basic forces that have shaped American life.
Much of this new scholarship followed the publication of History of Public Works in the United States, 1776-1976 (...