The Roots of American Bureaucracy, 1830-1900

by William Edward Nelson

Book Overview

William Nelson reinterprets nineteenth-century American history as a struggle between majority rule and minority rights. From this fresh point of view, he traces the roots of American bureaucracy. Nelson analyzes the majority-minority tension form the Jacksonian revolution of strong party rule and majoritarian decisionmaking through the abolitionist crisis, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of industrialism. He shows that ultimately political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674779452
• ISBN13: 9780674779457
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.