Indian affairs and the administrative state in the nineteenth century
Record details
- ISBN: 0511750978
- ISBN: 9780511750977
- ISBN: 0511744773
- ISBN: 9780511744778
- ISBN: 052119363X
- ISBN: 9780521193634
- ISBN: 9780511743689
- ISBN: 0511743688
- ISBN: 0511750234
- ISBN: 9780511750236
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 362 pages)
remote - Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The myth of open wilderness and the outlines of big government -- Managed expansion in the early republic -- Tippecanoe and treaties, too : executive leadership, organization, and effectiveness in the years of the factory system -- The key to success and the illusion of failure -- Big government Jacksonians -- Tragically effective : the administration of Indian removal -- Public administration, politics, and Indian removal : perpetuating the illusion of failure -- Clearing the Indian barrier : Indian affairs at the center of national expansion -- Containment and the weakening of Indian resistance : the effectiveness of reservation administration -- What's an administrator to do? : reservations and politics -- Conclusion: The myth of limited government. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |