This book 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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