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To Enlarge the Machinery of Government Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 / Williamjames Hull Hoffer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffer, Williamjames.
- Series:
- Reconfiguring American political history.
- Reconfiguring American political history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Congress.
- United States.
- Debates and debating--United States.
- Debates and debating.
- Federal government--United States.
- Federal government.
- United States--Politics and government--19th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The "second stateera, Hoffer contends, offers valuable insight into how conceptions of American uniqueness contributed to the shape of the federal government.
- Contents:
- 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".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-248) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0241-6
- OCLC:
- 941695862
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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