To Enlarge the Machinery of Government : Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 / / Williamjames Hull Hoffer

• Autore: Hoffer Williamjames
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2007; ©2007
• 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".
• 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
• Serie: Reconfiguring American political history.