To Enlarge the Machinery of Government : Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 / / Williamjames Hull Hoffer
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Hoffer Williamjames
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| Titolo: |
To Enlarge the Machinery of Government : Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 / / Williamjames Hull Hoffer
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2007 |
| ©2007 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.97309/034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Debates and debating - United States |
| Federal government - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-248) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state -- Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space -- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861 -- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863 -- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865 -- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876 -- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883 -- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886 -- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted". |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The "second stateera, Hoffer contends, offers valuable insight into how conceptions of American uniqueness contributed to the shape of the federal government. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | To Enlarge the Machinery of Government |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0241-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910524897703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Reconfiguring American political history.