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

• Autore: Larson John Lauritz <1950->
• 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
• ISBN: 979-88-908709-8-8; 0-8078-7564-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806251903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II