Building the new American nation: The U.S. Army and economic development, 1787--1860

Title: Building the new American nation: The U.S. Army and economic development, 1787--1860
Identifier: d_2009_2013:dfc4bf110157:10714
identifier: 10986
Creator: Adler, William D.,
Contributor: Andrew J. Polsky
Date: 2011
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Political science | American history | Military history | Army | Bureaucracy | Economic development | Engineering
Abstract: This dissertation examines the Army's integral role in the early American political economy. Notwithstanding its small size, the Army proved to be a powerful instrument for promoting economic expansion and guiding the pattern and direction of development. The Army spurred development through two lines of activity: first, the traditional application of coercion and, second, by providing public goods that neither private actors nor state governments could supply. Considering the Army leads me to reconceptualize the early American state as a bifurcated entity: a state of the periphery, dominated by the Army, and a state of the center, in which the Army still influenced economic development but other public institutions also performed key development functions.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Political Science

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