Internal Improvement
Subtitle: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780807825952
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; United States; c 1700 to c 1800; Government policy; United States - General; Economic conditions; Public Works; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; USA; History; Economic History; Government - U.S. Government; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Political Science / City Planning & Urban Development; To 1865; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; To 1933; 19th century; Economic policy; Infrastructure (Economics)
First sentence: THE FIRST DESIGNS for internal improvement in the new United States were articulated by such revolutionary heroes as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Robert Morris, and Philip Schuyler.