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02662aam a2200445 i 4500 001 BE9C59FEA5B811ECBC4A196C2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220317010139 008 210330t20212021pauab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021012580 020 $a 0812253485 020 $a 9780812253481 035 $a (OCoLC)1237633758 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d YDX $d VTU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HC105 $b .A55 2021 100 1 $a Adler, William D., $e author. 245 10 $a Engineering expansion : $b the U.S. Army and economic development, 1787-1860 / $c William D. Adler. 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 232 pages : $b illustrations (black abd white), maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a American governance : politics, policy, and public law 504 $a Includes 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x History. 610 17 $a United States. $b Army. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00533532 650 0 $a Economic development $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1783-1865. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 1783-1865. 651 0 $a United States $x Economic conditions $y To 1865. 650 7 $a Economic development. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901785 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a To 1865 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a American governance. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019024838.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BE9C59FEA5B811ECBC4A196C2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search