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A government out of sight : the mystery of national authority in nineteenth-century America
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A government out of sight : the mystery of national authority in nineteenth-century America / Brian Balogh.
ISBN
9780521820974 (hbk.)
0521820979 (hbk.)
9780521527866 (pbk.)
0521527864 (pbk.)
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xi, 414 pages ; 23 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 05, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Why look back?
How Americans lost sight of the state : adapting republican virtue to liberal self-interest
Between revolutions : the promise of the developmental vision
"To strengthen and perpetuate that union" : republican political economy
Outside the boundaries : "powers and energies in the extreme parts"
The uncontested state : letters, law, localities
Restoring "spontaneous action and self-regulation" : civil war and civil society
Judicial exceptions to Gilded Age laissez-faire
"A special form of associative action" : new liberalism and the national integration of public and private
Conclusion: Sighting the twentieth-century state.
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