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Autore |
Zavodnyik Peter <1969-> |
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Titolo |
The rise of the federal colossus : the growth of federal power from Lincoln to F.D.R. / / Peter Zavodnyik |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2011 |
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023 |
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ISBN |
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979-82-16-00922-1 |
1-283-05335-7 |
9786613053350 |
0-313-39294-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (566 p.) |
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Collana |
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Praeger series on American political culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Constitutional history - United States |
Federal government - United States - History |
United States Politics and government 1865-1933 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Series Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 Federalism and War, 1861-1865; Chapter 2 The Constitution Obscured, 1865-1877; Chapter 3 Federalism in the Gilded Age, 1877-1901; Chapter 4 The Progressive Era and American Federalism, 1901-1921; Chapter 5 Places at the Trough, 1921-1933; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Federal officials contemplated providing jobs to the unemployed as early as the 1870s, while the origins of federal regulation of interstate railroads go back to the Civil War. How and when did the federal government expand the scope of the powers granted to it by the Constitution and evolve into an entity that plays such an enormous role in the lives of ordinary Americans? |
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