Indian affairs and the administrative state in the nineteenth century / Stephen J. Rockwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rockwell, Stephen J., 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Government relations--History--19th century.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--History--19th century.

Federal government--United States--History--19th century.

Federal government.

Administrative agencies--United States--History--19th century.

Administrative agencies.

United States--Territorial expansion.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--19th century.

United States--Ethnic relations--Political aspects--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Indian Affairs & the Administrative State in the Nineteenth Century

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The framers of the Constitution and the generations that followed built a powerful and intrusive national administrative state in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The romantic myth of an individualized, pioneering expansion across an open West obscures nationally coordinated administrative and regulatory activity in Indian affairs, land policy, trade policy, infrastructure development, and a host of other issue areas related to expansion. Stephen J. Rockwell offers a careful look at the administration of Indian affairs and its relation to other national policies managing and shaping national expansion westward. Throughout the nineteenth century, Indian affairs were at the center of concerns about national politics, the national economy, and national social issues. Rockwell describes how a vibrant and complicated national administrative state operated from the earliest days of the republic, long before the Progressive era and the New Deal.

Contents:

The myth of open wilderness and the outlines of big government

Managed expansion in the early republic

Tippecanoe and treaties, too : executive leadership, organization, and effectiveness in the years of the factory system

The key to success and the illusion of failure

Big government Jacksonians

Tragically effective : the administration of Indian removal

Public administration, politics, and Indian removal : perpetuating the illusion of failure

Clearing the Indian barrier : Indian affairs at the center of national expansion

Containment and the weakening of Indian resistance : the effectiveness of reservation administration

What's an administrator to do? : reservations and politics

Conclusion: The myth of limited government.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20452-6

1-282-63090-3

9786612630903

0-511-74477-3

0-511-74949-X

0-511-74368-8

0-511-75023-4

0-511-75097-8

0-511-74261-4

OCLC:

761647309