“A richly documented study of the national, regional, and local politics surrounding road construction in Mexico. Obligatory reading for students interested in state-building, economic development, and everyday conflicts over the spoils of modernization.”-Barry Carr, professor emeritus at La Trobe University and coeditor of <i>The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire</i><br /><br />   “Comparative in approach and sensitive to the transnational dimension and the agendas of politicians, bureaucrats, and members of an array of social groups, Michael Bess’s nuanced treatment of Mexican road-building is a must-read for anyone interested in Mexico’s postrevolutionary experience.”-Samuel Brunk, professor of history at the University of Texas, El Paso, and author of <i>The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico’s Twentieth Century</i><br />  <br />   “A compelling analysis of the essential but overlooked impact of road building in modern Mexico. Exhaustively researched and cogently argued, few recent works are as important to understanding how state power, economic modernization, and nation-building converged in twentieth-century Mexico.”-Susan Gauss, associate professor of Latin American and Iberian studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston