{"id":4184,"date":"2014-10-30T22:05:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T02:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2015-01-14T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:46:09","slug":"public-works-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/10\/30\/public-works-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The management of a country is like managing a machine. \u00a0Occasionally its parts need to be fixed or replaced to keep the machine moving forward. \u00a0For a country, a leader must install or fix\u00a0its parts to help the country move forward. \u00a0In the,\u00a0<em>Three New Deals, <\/em>WolfGang Schivelbusch spent his fifth chapter on public projects that were introduced in the Soviet Union, Fascist Italy, the United States, and Nazi Germany. \u00a0Schivelbusch wrote that Italy, the United States, and Germany, under the conditions of the Great Depression, looked to the Soviet Union for innovation and progress. \u00a0He stated that the leaders of these\u00a0countries introduced programs in which they would help their countries move forward.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more intriguing projects that Schivelbusch discussed in his fifth chapter was \u00a0 on the &#8216;Autobahn&#8217;. \u00a0The autobahn, according to Schivelbusch represented what the TVA represented for the United States: &#8220;a promise that&#8230;&#8230;had implied not just an increased convenience but also a kind of symbolic salvation.&#8221; ((Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #666666\">\u201cPublic Works\u201d in\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #666666\">Three New Deals. \u00a0<\/em>New York: Picador. 2006,<span style=\"color: #666666\">\u00a0169.)) \u00a0The autobahn represented a sense of progress for German people. \u00a0It meant that people did not have to rely on the state as much. \u00a0What really intrigued me about this is that Germany decided to complete the autobahn before they completed the Volkswagen. \u00a0How could a country like Germany install a major highway in before people had cars? \u00a0As Schivelbusch stated, it was about capturing peoples imaginations about the possibilities, making people excited for the future and\u00a0excited about the prospect of driving along the\u00a0German landscape.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333\">((Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. \u00a0<\/span><span>\u201cPublic Works\u201d in\u00a0<\/span><em>Three New Deals. \u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #333333\">New York: Picador. 2006,<\/span><span>\u00a0172.)) \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What strikes me about the autobahn, to me, is that it represented freedom. \u00a0It seemed like a way of venturing off into the German land without any care in the world. \u00a0Considering that Nazi Germany had repressed many freedoms, it seems strange to me that the Nazis would build a highway that could give Germans a dream of endless possibilities. \u00a0Do you think that the autobahn was part of a greater dream of the Nazis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The management of a country is like managing a machine. \u00a0Occasionally its parts need to be fixed or replaced to keep the machine moving forward. \u00a0For a country, a leader must install or fix\u00a0its parts to help the country move &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/10\/30\/public-works-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110567],"tags":[104647,104642,104503,71119],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist375-archive","tag-autobahn","tag-public-works","tag-three-new-deals","tag-wolfgang-schivelbusch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}