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Boundaries of the State in US History
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by James T. Sparrow (Editor), William J. Novak (Editor), Stephen W. Sawyer (Editor)
James T. Sparrow
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Boundaries of the State in US History
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by James T. Sparrow (Editor), William J. Novak (Editor), Stephen W. Sawyer (Editor)
James T. Sparrow
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Overview
The question of how the American state defines its power has become central to a range of historical topics, from the founding of the Republic and the role of the educational system to the functions of agencies and America’s place in the world. Yet conventional histories of the state have not reckoned adequately with the roots of an ever-expanding governmental power, assuming instead that the American state was historically and exceptionally weak relative to its European peers. Here, James T. Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen W. Sawyer assemble definitional essays that search for explanations to account for the extraordinary growth of US power without resorting to exceptionalist narratives. Turning away from abstract, metaphysical questions about what the state is, or schematic models of how it must work, these essays focus instead on the more pragmatic, historical question of what it does. By historicizing the construction of the boundaries dividing America and the world, civil society and the state, they are able to explain the dynamism and flexibility of a government whose powers appear so natural as to be given, invisible, inevitable, and exceptional.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780226277646 |
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Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Publication date: | 09/07/2015 |
Pages: | 384 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
James T. Sparrow is associate professor of history and master of the Collegiate Social Sciences Division at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government.
William J. Novak is the Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is the author of The People’s Welfare Law and editor of The Democratic Experiment.
Stephen W. Sawyer is Ballantine-Leavitt Professor of History, cofounder of the History, Law, and Society Program, and director of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris. He is editor of the Tocqueville Review and associate editor of the Annales. History and Social Sciences.
William J. Novak is the Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is the author of The People’s Welfare Law and editor of The Democratic Experiment.
Stephen W. Sawyer is Ballantine-Leavitt Professor of History, cofounder of the History, Law, and Society Program, and director of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris. He is editor of the Tocqueville Review and associate editor of the Annales. History and Social Sciences.
Table of Contents
James T. Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen W. Sawyer Introduction Part I : The State and the World Gautham Rao One / The Early American State “In Action”: The Federal Marine Hospitals, 1789-1860 Stephen W. Sawyer Two / Beyond Tocqueville’s Myth: Rethinking the Model of the American State C. J. Alvarez Three / Inventing the US-Mexico Border James T. Sparrow Four / Rumors of Empire: Tracking the Image of Britain at the Dawn of the American Century Jason Scott Smith Five / The Great Transformation: The State and the Market in the Postwar World Part II : The State and Civil Society Tracy Steffes Six / Governing the Child: The State, the Family, and the Compulsory School in the Early Twentieth Century Gabriel N. Rosenberg Seven / Youth as Infrastructure: 4-H and the Intimate State in 1920s Rural America Elisabeth Clemens Eight / Good Citizens of a World Power: Postwar Reconfigurations of the Obligation to Give Omar M. McRoberts Nine / The Rise of the Public Religious Welfare State: Black Religion and the Negotiation of Church/State Boundaries during the War on Poverty Robert C. Lieberman Ten / Private Power and American Bureaucracy: The State, the EEOC, and Civil Rights Enforcement Richard R. John Eleven / From Political Economy to Civil Society: Arthur W. Page, Corporate Philanthropy, and the Reframing of the Past in Post-New Deal America William J. Novak Conclusion: The Concept of the State in American History Acknowledgments Contributors IndexFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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