The American National State and the Early West challenges the
widely held myth that the American national state was weak in the
early days of the republic. William H. Bergmann reveals how the
federal government used its fiscal and military powers, as well as
bureaucratic authority, to enhance land acquisitions, promote
infrastructure development, and facilitate commerce and
communication in the early trans-Appalachian West. Energetic
federal state-building efforts prior to 1815 grew from national
state security interests as Native Americans and British imperial
designs threatened to unravel the republic. White westerners and
western state governments partnered with the federal government to
encourage commercial growth and emigration, to transform the
borderland into a bordered land. Taking a regional approach, this
work synthesizes the literatures of social history, political
science, and economic history to provide a new narrative of
American expansionism, one that takes into account the unique
historical circumstances in the Ohio Valley and the southern Great
Lakes.
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