John Lauritz Larson 
Internal Improvement [PDF ebook] 
National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States

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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. But competitive struggles eventually undermined the interstate and interregional cooperation required, and the public soured on the internal improvement movement. Jacksonian politicians seized this opportunity to promote a more libertarian political philosophy in place of activist, positive republicanism. By the 1850s, the United States had turned toward a laissez-faire system of policy that, ironically, guaranteed more freedom for capitalists and entrepreneurs than ever envisioned in the founders’ revolutionary republicanism.

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Ngôn ngữ Anh ● định dạng PDF ● Trang 352 ● ISBN 9798890870988 ● Nhà xuất bản The University of North Carolina Press ● Được phát hành 2002 ● Có thể tải xuống 3 lần ● Tiền tệ EUR ● TÔI 9201609 ● Sao chép bảo vệ Adobe DRM
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