Internal Improvement

National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States

• Author(s): John Lauritz Larson,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 324
• ISBN_10: 0807849111
  ISBN_13: 9780807849118
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations , Business & Economics / Economic History , History / United States / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy ,

Description:... 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