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Internal improvement : national public works and the promise of popular government in the early United States

Author: John Lauritz Larson
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Larson, John Lauritz, 1950-
Internal improvement.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001
(OCoLC)655081650
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Lauritz Larson
ISBN: 0807825956 9780807825952 0807849111 9780807849118
OCLC Number: 44727813
Description: xv, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: An experiment in republicanism --
Designs of the monied gentry --
Toward a national republican alternative --
The problems with state initiatives --
The "progress" of consolidation --
Spoiling internal improvements --
State initiatives again --
Into the railway age --
Designs of a new monied gentry.
Responsibility: John Lauritz Larson.
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