The rise of the federal colossus : the growth of federal power from Lincoln to F.D.R. /

Federal officials contemplated providing jobs to the unemployed as early as the 1870s, while the origins of federal regulation of interstate railroads go back to the Civil War. How and when did the federal government expand the scope of the powers granted to it by the Constitution and evolve into an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zavodnyik, Peter, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Santa Barbara, CA : Praeger, ©2011.
Series:Praeger series on American political culture.
Subjects:
1865-1933
Federal government > United States > History.
Constitutional history > United States.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
Constitutional history
Federal government
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1933.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1865-1933.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Federalism and War, 1861-1865
  • The constitution obscured, 1865-1901
  • Federalism in the Gilded Age, 1877-1901
  • The Progressive Era and American Federalism, 1901-1921
  • Places at the trough, 1921-1933.

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