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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810086803321

Autore

Zavodnyik Peter <1969->

Titolo

The rise of the federal colossus : the growth of federal power from Lincoln to F.D.R. / / Peter Zavodnyik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2011

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023

ISBN

979-82-16-00922-1

1-283-05335-7

9786613053350

0-313-39294-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (566 p.)

Collana

Praeger series on American political culture

Disciplina

320.473/04909034

Soggetti

Constitutional history - United States

Federal government - United States - History

United States Politics and government 1865-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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?