Internal improvement national public works and the promise of popular government in the early United States - Larson, John Lauritz 1950- (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index
An experiment in republicanism -- Designs of the monied gentry -- Toward a national republican alternative -- The problems with state initiatives -- The "progress" of consolidation -- Spoiling internal improvements -- State initiatives again -- Into the railway age -- Designs of a new monied gentry