Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United StatesWhen 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 |
Contents
An Experiment in Republicanism | 1 |
Designs of the Monied Gentry | 9 |
Toward a National Republican Alternative | 39 |
The Problems with State Initiatives | 71 |
The Progress of Consolidation | 109 |
Spoiling Internal Improvements | 149 |
State Initiatives Again | 195 |
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