Название:Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Автор: John Lauritz Larson
Издательство: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 343
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government action--internal improvement. The nation's early republican governments undertook a wide range of internal improvement projects meant to assure Americans' security, prosperity, and enlightenment--from the building of roads, canals, and bridges to the establishment of universities and libraries.
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