Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Why Look Back?
- 2 How Americans Lost Sight of the State: Adapting Republican Virtue to Liberal Self-Interest
- 3 Between Revolutions: The Promise of the Developmental Vision
- 4 “To Strengthen and Perpetuate that Union”: Republican Political Economy
- 5 Outside the Boundaries: “Powers and Energies in the Extreme Parts”
- 6 The Uncontested State: Letters, Law, Localities
- 7 Restoring “Spontaneous Action and Self-Regulation”: Civil War and Civil Society
- 8 Judicial Exceptions to Gilded Age Laissez-Faire
- 9 “A Special Form of Associative Action”: New Liberalism and the National Integration of Public and Private
- 10 Conclusion: Sighting the Twentieth-Century State
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Why Look Back?
- 2 How Americans Lost Sight of the State: Adapting Republican Virtue to Liberal Self-Interest
- 3 Between Revolutions: The Promise of the Developmental Vision
- 4 “To Strengthen and Perpetuate that Union”: Republican Political Economy
- 5 Outside the Boundaries: “Powers and Energies in the Extreme Parts”
- 6 The Uncontested State: Letters, Law, Localities
- 7 Restoring “Spontaneous Action and Self-Regulation”: Civil War and Civil Society
- 8 Judicial Exceptions to Gilded Age Laissez-Faire
- 9 “A Special Form of Associative Action”: New Liberalism and the National Integration of Public and Private
- 10 Conclusion: Sighting the Twentieth-Century State
- Index
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- A Government Out of SightThe Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America, pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009