A government out of sight : the mystery of national authority in nineteenth-century America

A government out of sight : the mystery of national authority in nineteenth-century America / Brian Balogh.

Author/creator	Balogh, Brian
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description	xi, 414 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	Conservatism--United States --History --19th century. Liberalism--United States --History --19th century. Progressivism (United States politics) Free enterprise--United States --History --19th century. United States--Politics and government --19th century.

Contents	Introduction: Why look back? -- How Americans lost sight of the state : adapting republican virtue to liberal self-interest -- Between revolutions : the promise of the developmental vision -- "To strengthen and perpetuate that union" : republican political economy -- Outside the boundaries : "powers and energies in the extreme parts" -- The uncontested state : letters, law, localities -- Restoring "spontaneous action and self-regulation" : civil war and civil society -- Judicial exceptions to Gilded Age laissez-faire -- "A special form of associative action" : new liberalism and the national integration of public and private -- Conclusion: Sighting the twentieth-century state.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2008054803
ISBN	9780521820974 (hbk.)
ISBN	0521820979 (hbk.)
ISBN	9780521527866 (pbk.)
ISBN	0521527864 (pbk.)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	JK216 .B33 2009	✔ Available	Place Hold