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

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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Larson, John Lauritz, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
To 1933
Infrastructure (Economics) > Government policy > United States > History > 19th century.
Public works > Government policy > United States > History > 19th century.
Travaux publics > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General.
Economic history
Economic policy
Infrastructure (Economics) > Government policy
Public works > Government policy
Infrastrukturpolitik
Wirtschaftspolitik
Economische politiek.
United States > Economic policy > To 1933.
United States > Economic conditions > To 1865.
États-Unis > Politique économique > Jusqu'à 1933.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques > Jusqu'à 1865.
United States
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An experiment in republicanism
  • Designs of the monied gentry
  • Toward a national republican alternative
  • The problems with state initiatives
  • The "progress" of consolidation
  • Spoiling internal improvements
  • State initiatives again
  • Into the railway age
  • Designs of a new monied gentry.

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