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100 1 $aBaxter, Maurice G.$q(Maurice Glen),$d1920-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82223602
245 10 $aHenry Clay and the American system /$cMaurice G. Baxter.
260 $aLexington, Ky. :$bUniversity Press of Kentucky,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $a261 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-246) and index.
520 $aThis detailed study of Henry Clay and the American system - a program of vigorous economic nationalism dependent on active government intervention - reveals the important economic and constitutional aspects of what was perhaps Clay's greatest contribution to national policy, a contribution that has received surprisingly little study until now.
520 8 $aDuring the first half of the nineteenth century the new United States experienced rapid material growth, transforming a largely agrarian, premodern economy into a diversified, industrializing one. As Speaker of the House in the years following the War of 1812, and later as a founder of the Whig party, Clay argued strongly for the development of a home market for domestic goods so that Americans would not be dependent on foreign imports.
520 8 $aThis "American System" was originally little more than a protective tariff on foreign goods, but it soon came to encompass a collection of policies that included a national banking system and distribution of federal funds to improve transportation. Baxter reveals the inner workings of Clay's program and offers the first careful analysis of its successes and failures.
600 10 $aClay, Henry,$d1777-1852.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50041909
651 0 $aUnited States$xEconomic policy$yTo 1933.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140034
651 0 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$yTo 1865.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140021
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1815-1861.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140427
852 00 $bglx$hE340.C6$iB39 1995