Title Engineering expansion : the U.S. Army and economic development, 1787-1860 / William D. Adler

Edition 1st edition Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations Series American governance : politics, policy, and public law American governance. Contents Cover -- Engineering Expansion -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Coercion and Economic Development -- Chapter 2. Building the Nation, Building the Economy -- Chapter 3. Who Commands? -- Chapter 4. Political Entrepreneurs and Institutional Capacity -- Conclusion. The Army and American Political Development -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments Summary "This book details the host of ways in which the U.S. Army impacted economic development in the period from the writing of the Constitution to the eve of the Civil War, and has analyzed the political forces behind the Army's actions. The Army's promotion of science and technology, its assistance in building infrastructure across the nation, its opening of new regions for white settlement through wars against native tribes and foreign nations, and its unifying of the nation by enforcing central state policies all propelled economic growth and helped launch the United States into a new era of commercial and industrial expansion at the end of the nineteenth century. Despite its small size, the Army was an actor of immense significance to the development of the American economy, as well as to the development of central state capacity"-- Provided by publisher Analysis American Political Development Army Corps of Engineers Bureaucracy Early America Economic development Industrialization Infrastructure Military history State militia Territorial expansion Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject United States. Army -- History. SUBJECT United States. Army fast Subject Economic development -- United States -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy Economic development Economic history Politics and government SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140416 United States -- History -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140186 United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140021 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812298116 081229811X

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