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<div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>Jo Guldi</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; "><i>Harvard Society of Fellows</i></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 13px; ">
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<br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-size: large; "><b>Britain Invents the Infrastructure State</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-size: large; "><b></b></span> </div>
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<font color="#000000">Lunch is provided if you RSVP.</font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000">Please RSVP to </font><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); "><span><span><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); "><span>sts</span></a></span></span><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); ">@hks.harvard.edu</a> </font><font color="#000000">by 5pm Thursday, February 3rd.</font></div>
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<b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Abstract:</b><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">The “infrastructure state” suggests that the origins of modern bureaucracies lie with the state’s relationship to territory and centralization – the building of infrastructure -- as opposed to the mobilization of bodies through public health and welfare. The "infrastructure state" is identified as the moment when nations began to mobilize their resources not only for the policing of boundaries but also for the provision of lighthouses, ports, bridges, and roads, connecting hinterlands into a single territory united by trade. </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">This paper presents the case that a vast civilian bureaucracy emerged to oversee road-building in Britain between 1790 and 1808. It surveys the role of postcolonial tensions with Scotland and Ireland, the manufacture of the civil engineer, and the emergence of expert rule. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Biography</b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Jo Guldi is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Mellon Fellow in Digital History at the University of Chicago. Her forthcoming book, The Road to Rule (Harvard University Press 2011), tells the story of how Britain invented the infrastructure state and strangers stopped talking on the public street. She is currently working on a methodology of digital history and a history of capitalism and its relationship with land since 1350.</span></font></div>
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<font color="#000000">A complete list of <span><span><span>STS</span> </span></span><span><span><span>Circle</span> </span></span>at Harvard events can be found on our website:</font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
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