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Indian affairs and the administrative state in the nineteenth century /

"The framers of the Constitution and the generations that followed built a powerful and intrusive national administrative state in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The romantic myth of an individualized, pioneering expansion across an open West obscures nationally coordinated admin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rockwell, Stephen J., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The myth of open wilderness and the outlines of big government
  • Managed expansion in the early republic
  • Tippecanoe and treaties, too : executive leadership, organization, and effectiveness in the years of the factory system
  • The key to success and the illusion of failure
  • Big government Jacksonians
  • Tragically effective : the administration of Indian removal
  • Public administration, politics, and Indian removal : perpetuating the illusion of failure
  • Clearing the Indian barrier : Indian affairs at the center of national expansion
  • Containment and the weakening of Indian resistance : the effectiveness of reservation administration
  • What's an administrator to do? : reservations and politics
  • Conclusion: The myth of limited government.