Indian affairs and the administrative state in the nineteenth century /
The framers of the Constitution and the generations that followed built a powerful and intrusive national administrative state in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The romantic myth of an individualized, pioneering expansion across an open West obscures nationally coordinated administrat...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.