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Railroads and American Political Development - Infrastructure, Federalism, and State Building (Hardcover)
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Railroads and American Political Development - Infrastructure, Federalism, and State Building (Hardcover)
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America's founders envisioned a federal government of limited and
enumerated powers. What they could not envision, of course, was the
vast and complex infrastructure that the growing nation would
demand-a demand that became ever clearer as the power and
importance of railroads emerged. The requirements of a nationwide
rail network, it also became clear, far exceeded the resources of
state and local government and private industry. The consequences,
as seen in this book, amounted to state building from the ground
up. In Railroads and American Political Development Zachary Callen
tells the story of the federal government's role in developing a
national rail system-and the rail system's role in expanding the
power of the federal government. The book reveals how state
building, so often attributed to an aggressive national government,
can also result from local governments making demands on the
national state-a dynamic that can still be seen at work every time
the US Congress takes up a transportation bill. Though many states
invested in their local railroads, and many quite successfully,
others were less willing or less capable-so rail development
necessarily became a federal concern. Railroads and American
Political Development shows how this led to the Land Grant Act of
1850, a crucial piece of legislation in the building of both the
nation's infrastructure and the American state. Chronicling how
this previously local issue migrated to the federal state, and how
federal action then altered American rail planning, the book offers
a new perspective on the exact nature of federalism. In the case of
rail development, we see how state governments factor into the
American state building process, and how, in turn, the separation
of powers at the federal level shaped that process. The result is a
fresh view of the development of the American rail system, as well
as a clearer picture of the pressures and political logic that have
altered and expanded the reach of American federalism.
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