Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1: Principles of Association and Combination 27
5. 2: Civil War, Civic Expansion: The “Divine Method” of Patriotism 49
6. 3: Municipal Benevolence 73
7. 4: The Expansible Nation-State 103
8. 5: “Everything but Government Submarines”: Limits of a Semi-governmental System 139
9. 6: In the Shadow of the New Deal 177
10. 7: The People’s Partnership 213
11. 8: Good Citizens of a World Power 235
12. 9: Combinatorial Politics and Constitutive Contradictions 257
13. Acknowledgments 277
14. Appendices 281
15. List of Abbreviations 295
16. List of Archives 297
17. Notes 299
18. References 365
19. Index 393