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Internal improvement : national public works and the promise of popular government in the early United States / / John Lauritz Larson



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Autore: Larson John Lauritz <1950-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Internal improvement : national public works and the promise of popular government in the early United States / / John Lauritz Larson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
Disciplina: 338.973
Soggetto topico: Infrastructure (Economics) - Government policy - United States - History - 19th century
Public works - Government policy - United States - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Economic policy To 1933
United States Economic conditions To 1865
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-318) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments; Introduction: An Experiment in Republicanism; 1. Designs of the Monied Gentry; 2. Towards a National Republican Alternative; 3. The Problems with State Initiatives; 4. The ""Progress"" of Consolidation; 5. Spoiling Internal Improvements; 6. State Initiatives Again; 7. Into the Railway Age; Epilogue: Designs of a New Monied Gentry; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government action--internal improvement. The nation's early republican governments undertook a wide range of internal improvement projects meant to assure Americans' security, prosperity, and enlightenment--from the building of roads, canals, and bridges to the
Titolo autorizzato: Internal improvement  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908709-8-8
0-8078-7564-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910806251903321
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