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050	0	0	_aHC105 _b.A55 2021
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100	1		_aAdler, William D., _930740
245	1	0	_aEngineering expansion : _bthe U.S. Army and economic development, 1787-1860
250			_a1st edition.
260			_aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press , _c2021 .
263			_a2112
300			_a232 pages
490	1		_aAmerican governance : politics, policy, and public law
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"This book details the host of ways in which the U.S. Army impacted economic development in the period from the writing of the Constitution to the eve of the Civil War, and has analyzed the political forces behind the Army's actions. The Army's promotion of science and technology, its assistance in building infrastructure across the nation, its opening of new regions for white settlement through wars against native tribes and foreign nations, and its unifying of the nation by enforcing central state policies all propelled economic growth and helped launch the United States into a new era of commercial and industrial expansion at the end of the nineteenth century. Despite its small size, the Army was an actor of immense significance to the development of the American economy, as well as to the development of central state capacity"--
610	1	0	_bArmy _930741
650		0	_aEconomic development _930742
651		0	_xPolitics and government _y1783-1865. _930743
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y1783-1865. _930744
651		0	_xEconomic conditions _930745
830		0	_aAmerican governance. _930746
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955			_bPU 2021-03-30
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