List of Figures and Tables
Preface
1. The Dynamics of American Statebuilding
Part I: Colonial Times through the Civil War and Reconstruction
2. Rise of the Little Republics
3. Forging a National State
4. Geographic and Economic Expansion
5. Nationalism and Public Policy
6. The Dynamics of Antebellum Governance
7. The Civil War Builds New States
Part II: The Gilded Age through World War I and the 1920s
8. Social and Economic Transformations
9. Nationalism, Parties, and the Coercive State, 1870-1917
10. The Federal State during the Gilded Age
11. The Progressive States
12. The Wartime State
13. The End of the Long Nineteenth Century
Appendix
Notes