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.
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