A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America
- ISBN-10
- 0521820979
- ISBN-13
- 9780521820974
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 414
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-04-06
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Brian Balogh
Description
A Government Out of Sight revises our understanding of the ways in which Americans turned to the national government throughout the nineteenth century.
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