Engineering Expansion : : The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860 / / William D. Adler.
Engineering Expansion examines the U.S. Army's role in U.S. economic development from the nation's founding to the eve of the Civil War. William D. Adler starts with a simple question: if the federal government was weak in its early years, how could the economy and the nation have grown so...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 5 charts, 4 maps, 11 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Coercion and Economic Development
- Chapter 2. Building the Nation, Building the Economy
- Chapter 3. Who Commands?
- Chapter 4. Po liti cal Entrepreneurs and Institutional Capacity
- Conclusion. The Army and American Po liti cal Development
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments