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

by John Lauritz Larson

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 the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government action--internal improvement.

The nation's early republican governments undertook a wide range of internal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807849111
• ISBN13: 9780807849118
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.4"