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To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891

by Williamjames Hull Hoffer
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780801886553
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
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  • Pages: 280
  • Original Price: GBP 48.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 663 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): United States / 19th Century

How did the federal government change from the weak apparatus of the antebellum period to the large, administrative state of the Progressive Era? To Enlarge the Machinery of Government explores the daily proceedings of the U.S. House and Senate from 1858 to 1891 to find answers to this question.

Through close readings of debates centered around sponsorship, supervision, and standardization recorded in the Congressional Globe and Congressional Record during this period, Williamjames Hull Hoffer traces a critical shift in ideas that ultimately ushered in Progressive legislation: the willingness of American citizens to allow, and in fact ask for, federal intervention in their daily lives. He describes this era of congressional thought as a second state, distinct from both the minimalist approaches that came before and the Progressive state building that developed later. The second state era, Hoffer contends, offers valuable insight into how conceptions of American uniqueness contributed to the shape of the federal government.

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