Indian affairs and the administrative state in the nineteenth century

By Stephen J. Rockwell

Subjects: Territorial expansion, History, United States, Indians of north america, government relations, Administrative agencies, United states, ethnic relations, Politics and government, Politics and government, Federal government, United states, politics and government, 19th century, Legal status, laws, United states, territorial expansion, Ethnic relations, Political aspects, Indians of north america, legal status, laws, etc., Government relations, Indians of North America

Description: "The framers of the Constitution and the generations that followed built a powerful and intrusive national administrative state in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The romantic myth of an individualized, pioneering expansion across an open West obscures nationally coordinated administrative and regulatory activity in Indian affairs, land policy, trade policy, infrastructure development, and a host of other issue areas related to expansion. Stephen J. Rockwell offers a careful look at the administration of Indian affairs and its relation to other national policies managing and shaping national expansion westward. Throughout the nineteenth century, Indian affairs were at the center of concerns about national politics, the national economy, and national social issues. Rockwell describes how a vibrant and complicated national administrative state operated from the earliest days of the republic, long before the Progressive era and the New Deal"--Provided by publisher.