Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xv, 324 p)
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ill., maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0807825956
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0807849111
,
0807875643
Inhalt:
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This text traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government: internal improvement
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-318) and index
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Cover Page; Internal Improvement; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Tables and Maps; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction An Experiment in Republicanism; 1 Designs of the Monied Gentry; 2 Toward a National Republican Alternative; 3 The Problems with State Initiatives; 4 The "Progress" of Consolidation; 5 Spoiling Internal Improvements; 6 State Initiatives Again; 7 Into the Railway Age; Epilogue Designs of a New Monied Gentry; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780807849118
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Internal Improvement : National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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