A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America

by Brian Balogh

Book Overview

While it is obvious that America's state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did very little during this period. A Government Out of Sight challenges this premise, chronicling the ways in which the national government intervened powerfully in the lives of nineteenth-century Americans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521527864
• ISBN13: 9780521527866
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"