Indian Affairs and the Administrative State in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN: 9781107617995 出版年：2010 页码：376 Stephen J Rockwell Cambridge University Press

Introduction 1. The myth of open wilderness and the outlines of big government 2. Managed expansion in the early republic 3. Tippecanoe and treaties, too: executive leadership, organization, and effectiveness in the years of the factory system 4. The key to success and the illusion of failure 5. Big government Jacksonians 6. Tragically effective: the administration of Indian removal 7. Public administration, politics, and Indian removal: perpetuating the illusion of failure 8. Clearing the Indian barrier: Indian affairs at the center of national expansion 9. Containment and the weakening of Indian resistance: the effectiveness of reservation administration 10. What's an administrator to do? Reservations and politics 11. Conclusion: the myth of limited government.