Matthew Titolo

Privatization and Its Discontents

Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book combines literature on legal history, infrastructure, privatization, and neoliberalism in America to highlight the multilayered nature of infrastructure and related concepts. The book situates recent infrastructure debates in a genealogy of public-private governance in the United States"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781108475679
• ISBN-10: 1108475671
• Artikelnr.: 67127919

Autorenporträt

Matthew Titolo is Professor of Law at the West Virginia University College of Law. Professor Titolo researches nineteenth-century American legal and political history and teaches American legal history as well as commercial law courses.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Early liberalism, Adam Smith, and the seeds of the infrastructural state
2. Forging the infrastructural state: 1787¿1837
3. 'A wilderness of turnpike gates:' roads and public authority in antebellum America
4. The panic of 1837, the infrastructure crash, and the rise of public purpose
5. The ground under our feet: the birth of public utilities
6. The death of laissez faire and the rise of infrastructure in the cold war.