To enlarge the machinery of government : : congressional debates and the growth of the American state, 1858-1891 / / Williamjames Hull Hoffer.

• Superior document: Reconfiguring American political history
• VerfasserIn: Hoffer, Williamjames,
• Place / Publishing House: Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Reconfiguring American political history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 pages)

Table of Contents

• Introduction : "badly in detail but well on the whole": the second state
• Prologue : "the great, noisy, reedy, jarring assembly" : the Capitol, lawyers, and public space
• A "government of states" : sponsorship and the first debate on land grant colleges, 1858-1861
• "The object of a democratic government" : sponsorship and supervision of agriculture and land grant colleges, 1861-1863
• "A government of law" : sponsoring and supervising the freedmen, abandoned lands, and refugees, 1863-1865
• The "twin pillars" of the state : the supervision and standardization of education and law enforcement, 1865-1876
• "To change the nature of the government" : standardizing schooling and the civil service, 1876-1883
• "What constitutes a state" : supervising labor and commerce, 1883-1886
• "A system entirely satisfactory to the country" : standardizing labor and the courts, 1886-1891
• Conclusion : "to answer our purposes, it must be adapted".