Description While it is obvious that America\'s state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the National Government did very little during this period.
A Government Out of Sight challenges this premise, chronicling the ways in which the National Government intervened powerfully in the lives of Nineteenth-Century Americans through the law,.
Description While it is obvious that America\'s state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the National Government did very little during this period