Internal Improvement National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States |
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| Author:
| Larson, John Lauritz |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-2595-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2001 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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Larson traces the internal improvement movement--which embraced such projects as the building or promoting of roads, canals, bridges, universities, and libraries--within American government from the Federalist era through the eve of the Civil War.
Larson traces the internal improvement movement--which embraced such projects as the building or promoting of roads, canals, bridges, universities, and libraries--within American government from the Federalist era through the eve of the Civil War.