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

• Autore: Zavodnyik Peter <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Santa Barbara, Calif., : Praeger, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (566 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.473/04909034
• Soggetto topico: Federal government - United States - History; Constitutional history - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1865-1933
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-511) 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?
• Titolo autorizzato: The rise of the federal colossus
• ISBN: 1-283-05335-7; 9786613053350; 0-313-39294-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460063503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Praeger series on American political culture.