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A government out of sight : the mystery of national authority in nineteenth-century America /
While it is obvious that America's state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did very little during this period. A Governmen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Why look back?
- How Americans lost sight of the state : adapting republican virtue to liberal self-interest
- Between revolutions : the promise of the developmental vision
- "To strengthen and perpetuate that union" : republican political economy
- Outside the boundaries : "powers and energies in the extreme parts"
- The uncontested state : letters, law, localities
- Restoring "spontaneous action and self-regulation" : civil war and civil society
- Judicial exceptions to Gilded Age laissez-faire
- "A special form of associative action" : new liberalism and the national integration of public and private
- Conclusion: Sighting the twentieth-century state.