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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

1 online resource (276 pages)

ISBN 9781421402413 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0801886554 (hbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 801886554X (hbk.: alk. paper)

ISBN 9780801886553 (hbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9788018865545 (hbk. : alk. paper)

Reconfiguring American political history

Print version: Hoffer, Williamjames. To enlarge the machinery of government : congressional debates and the growth of the American state, 1858-1891. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 xiii, 258 pages ; 24 cm. Reconfiguring American political history ISBN 9780801886553

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-248) and index

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".

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