To Enlarge the Machinery of Government Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2007.
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| Colección: | Reconfiguring American political history.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423008706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861
- "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863
- "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865
- The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876
- "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883
- "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886
- "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891
- Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".
