Justin Shapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Shapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University, Durham, NC, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2292-5165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Infrastructure and Inequality in Washington, D.C: Environmental Change and Federal Management of the District’s Forgotten River
The District of Columbia has long served as a test case for federal planning priorities. Congress has jurisdiction over the District, and has historically delegated different agencies to administer the capital on its behalf. Those agencies have been given wide latitude to build the District according to their vision for a grand and monumental capital city, often to the exclusion of city residents. This article provides a detailed history of the K…
Environmental control: Charting a course for the Navajo reservation through road construction, 1945–1978
This article examines the history of road planning in the decades following the Second World War on the Navajo Nation. Federal highway planners and Navajo residents had conflicting ideas about the role of roads in the Nation's postwar development. The planners’ support for highways near uranium mines undermined efforts towards Navajo self-development and modernization. Federally planned and subsidized highways granted extractive industries contro…
Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka
Reviewed by: Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka Justin Shapiro (bio) Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad By Manu Karuka. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. 320. In Empire's Tracks, Manu Karuka reframes the role of the transcontinental railroads in the history of U.S. imperialism. For Karuka, it makes little sens…
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Environmental control: Charting a course for the Navajo reservation through road construction, 1945–1978
This article examines the history of road planning in the decades following the Second World War on the Navajo Nation. Federal highway planners and Navajo residents had conflicting ideas about the role of roads in the Nation's postwar development. The planners’ support for highways near uranium mines undermined efforts towards Navajo self-development and modernization. Federally planned and subsidized highways granted extractive industries contro…
Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka
Reviewed by: Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka Justin Shapiro (bio) Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad By Manu Karuka. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. 320. In Empire's Tracks, Manu Karuka reframes the role of the transcontinental railroads in the history of U.S. imperialism. For Karuka, it makes little sens…
Infrastructure and Inequality in Washington, D.C: Environmental Change and Federal Management of the District’s Forgotten River
The District of Columbia has long served as a test case for federal planning priorities. Congress has jurisdiction over the District, and has historically delegated different agencies to administer the capital on its behalf. Those agencies have been given wide latitude to build the District according to their vision for a grand and monumental capital city, often to the exclusion of city residents. This article provides a detailed history of the K…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 works) · British Empire (1 works) · Capitalism (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Control (management (1 works)