Format:
1 Online-Ressource (276 p)
ISBN:
9780801886553
Series Statement:
Reconfiguring American Political History
Content:
Contents -- Introduction. "Badly in Detail but Well on the Whole": The Second State -- Prologue. "The Great, Noisy, Reedy, Jarring Assembly": The Capitol, Lawyers, and Public Space -- 1 A "Government of States": Sponsorship and the First Debate on Land Grant Colleges, 1858-1861 -- 2 "The Object of a Democratic Government": Sponsorship and Supervision of Agriculture and Land Grant Colleges, 1861-1863 -- 3 "A Government of Law": Sponsoring and Supervising the Freedmen, Abandoned Lands, and Refugees, 1863-1865
Content:
4 The "Two Great Pillars" of the State: The Supervision and Standardization of Education and Law Enforcement, 1865-1876 -- 5 "To Change the Nature of the Government": Standardizing Schooling and the Civil Service, 1876-1883 -- 6 "What Constitutes a State": Supervising Labor and Commerce, 1883-1886 -- 7 "A System Entirely Satisfactory to the Country": Standardizing Labor and the Courts, 1886-1891 -- Conclusion. "To Answer Our Purposes, It Must Be Adapted" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q
Content:
R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781421402413
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801886553
Additional Edition:
Print version Hoffer, Williamjames Hull To Enlarge the Machinery of Government : Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891 Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2010
Language:
English
Keywords:
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