Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
book
BookPrinted Material
Author Larson, John Lauritz, 1950-

Title Internal improvement : national public works and the promise of popular government in the early United States / John Lauritz Larson.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
©2001

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HC105 .L26 2001    Available  ---
Description xv, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index.
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.
Subject United States -- Economic policy -- To 1933.
United States.
Economic policy.
Chronological Term To 1933
Subject United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term To 1865
Subject Infrastructure (Economics) -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Government policy.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Infrastructure (Economics)
Public works -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Public works -- Government policy.
Public works.
United States -- Economic policy -- To 1933.
United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.
ISBN 0807849111 paperback alkaline paper
0807825956 cloth alkaline paper