%0 Journal Article %T The Peoples Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America. By William J. Novak. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xii, 396 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2292-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 08078-4611-2.) %A Prewitt, Audra Laverne %J The Journal of American History %V 84 %N 2 %P 634-635 %@ 0021-8723 %D 1997-09-01 %I Oxford University Press %~ DeepDyve