[Free] Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
▲ John Lauritz Larson ▲
| #1503846 in Books | The University of North Carolina Press | 2001-03-26 | 2001-03-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.86 x5.75l,1.08 | File Name: 0807849111 | 352 pages |
||19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.| Important, insightful, informative yet flawed.|By greg taylor|John Larson has written one of the more important studies of the political economy of the antebellum republic. He has given me a new way to look at antebellum politics and an insight into the transition from the republican ideology of the founders to the triumph of laissez-faire capitalism in the post Civil War pe||An original reexamination of a major issue in nineteenth-century American history, based on primary sources and written with lucidity and verve. (Daniel Walker Howe, Oxford University)
Larson has produced a well-researched history of national publi
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 pinned their hopes for positive government action--internal improvement.
The nation's early republican governments undertook a wide range of internal improvement pro...
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