To enlarge the machinery of government : congressional debates and the growth of the American state, 1858-1891 /

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主要作者: Hoffer, Williamjames (Author)
格式: 电子 电子书
语言:英语
出版: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
丛编:Reconfiguring American political history.
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书本目录:
  • 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".