Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway by Miller, Shawn William
Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway by Miller, Shawn William

Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway

An expansive and subversive history of the Pan-American Highway. A century after the Pan-American Highway was first...
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Author: Shawn William Miller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway by Miller, Shawn William

Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway

$35.94
Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway by Miller, Shawn William

Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway

$35.94
Author: Shawn William Miller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
An expansive and subversive history of the Pan-American Highway.

A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown--even to the hundreds of motorists who annually attempt the 30,000-kilometer drive from far northern Alaska to the tip of Tierra del Fuego. There is more to the highway, however, than the persistent allure of the open road. In Dream Road to Pan America, historian Shawn William Miller unveils a larger tale of lofty ideals and bedrock greed, romantic adventure and pragmatic diplomacy, immigrant desperation and Indigenous resistance.

This book journeys to the early 1920s when everyday Americans invented the idea of a road that would spread fraternity, democracy, and prosperity across the hemisphere. It looks at the commercial and geopolitical interests that shaped the highway--often with little concern for those living along its margins--and explains why the road became an escape route for millions of migrants rather than a corridor for tourists. Miller contends that the highway's troubled past points to an unresolved future, offering insights into the growing costs of continuing down well-worn paths.

Author: Shawn William Miller
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 05/12/2026
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780520416932


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2026

About the Author
Shawn William Miller is Professor of History at Brigham Young University and author of An Environmental History of Latin America and The Street Is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro.
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