Из статьи про роль западной границы в американской истории:
This is a wrong perspective. The pioneer needed the goods of the coast, and so the grand series of internal improvement and railroad legislation began, with potent nationalizing effects. Over internal improvements occurred great debates, in which grave constitutional questions were discussed. Sectional groupings appear in the votes, profoundly significant for the historian. Loose construction increased as the nation marched westward.41 *But the West was not content with bringing the farm to the factory. Under the lead of Clay "Harry of the West" protective tariffs were passed, with the cry of bringing the factory to the farm. The disposition of the public lands was a third important subject of national legislation influenced by the frontier*.
Что-то никак не соображу, как переводить "bringing the farm to the factory" и как сочетается утверждение о том, что Западу его было недостататочно связано с утвердением, что под этим лозунгом были проведены протекционистские тарифы.
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