The American State From The Civil War To The New Deal

Author : Nina Silber
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469646552
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This War Ain't Over written by Nina Silber and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and film Gone with the Wind and the scores of popular theater productions to Aaron Copeland's "A Lincoln Portrait," it was hard to miss America's fascination with the war in the 1930s and 1940s. Nina Silber deftly examines the often conflicting and politically contentious ways in which Americans remembered the Civil War era during the years of the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II. In doing so, she reveals how the debates and events of that earlier period resonated so profoundly with New Deal rhetoric about state power, emerging civil rights activism, labor organizing and trade unionism, and popular culture in wartime. At the heart of this book is an examination of how historical memory offers people a means of understanding and defining themselves in the present. Silber reveals how, during a moment of enormous national turmoil, the events and personages of the Civil War provided a framework for reassessing national identity, class conflict, and racial and ethnic division. The New Deal era may have been the first time Civil War memory loomed so large for the nation as a whole, but, as the present moment suggests, it was hardly the last.

Author : Paul D. Moreno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032954
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal written by Paul D. Moreno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the breakdown of limited government in America and the rise of the federal state.

Author : William J. Novak
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674260449
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Democracy written by William J. Novak and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The activist state of the New Deal started forming decades before the FDR administration, demonstrating the deep roots of energetic government in America. In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed, with momentous implications for social and economic life. A series of legal reforms gradually brought an end to nineteenth-century traditions of local self-government and associative citizenship, replacing them with positive statecraft: governmental activism intended to change how Americans lived and worked through legislation, regulation, and public administration. The last time American public life had been so thoroughly altered was in the late eighteenth century, at the founding and in the years immediately following. William J. Novak shows how Americans translated new conceptions of citizenship, social welfare, and economic democracy into demands for law and policy that delivered public services and vindicated peopleÕs rights. Over the course of decades, Americans progressively discarded earlier understandings of the reach and responsibilities of government and embraced the idea that legislators and administrators in Washington could tackle economic regulation and social-welfare problems. As citizens witnessed the successes of an energetic, interventionist state, they demanded more of the same, calling on politicians and civil servants to address unfair competition and labor exploitation, form public utilities, and reform police power. Arguing against the myth that America was a weak state until the New Deal, New Democracy traces a steadily aggrandizing authority well before the Roosevelt years. The United States was flexing power domestically and intervening on behalf of redistributive goals for far longer than is commonly recognized, putting the lie to libertarian claims that the New Deal was an aberration in American history.

Author : Nina Silber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469646565
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This War Ain't Over written by Nina Silber and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and film 'Gone with the Wind' and the scores of popular theater productions to Aaron Copeland's 'A Lincoln Portrait,' it was hard to miss America's fascination with the war in the 1930s and 1940s. Nina Silber ... examines the often conflicting and politically contentious ways in which Americans remembered the Civil War era during the years of the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II. In doing so, she reveals how the debates and events of that earlier period resonated so profoundly with New Deal rhetoric about state power, emerging civil rights activism, labor organizing and trade unionism, and popular culture in wartime"--

Author : Stephen Marche
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982123222
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Next Civil War written by Stephen Marche and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue that drama with the authority of documentary.” —The New York Times Book Review A celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagines five chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with experts of all kinds. The United States is coming to an end. The only question is how. On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right anti-government patriots. Inside an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun takes aim at the American president stepping in for an impromptu photo-op, and a bullet splits the hyper-partisan country into violently opposed mourners and revelers. In New York City, a Category 2 hurricane plunges entire neighborhoods underwater and creates millions of refugees overnight—a blow that comes on the heels of a financial crash and years of catastrophic droughts—and tips America over the edge into ruin. These nightmarish scenarios are just three of the five possibilities most likely to spark devastating chaos in the United States that are brought to life in The Next Civil War, a chilling and deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction. Drawing upon sophisticated predictive models and nearly two hundred interviews with experts—civil war scholars, military leaders, law enforcement officials, secret service agents, agricultural specialists, environmentalists, war historians, and political scientists—journalist Stephen Marche predicts the terrifying future collapse that so many of us do not want to see unfolding in front of our eyes. Marche has spoken with soldiers and counterinsurgency experts about what it would take to control the population of the United States, and the battle plans for the next civil war have already been drawn up. Not by novelists, but by colonels. No matter your political leaning, most of us can sense that America is barreling toward catastrophe—of one kind or another. Relevant and revelatory, The Next Civil War plainly breaks down the looming threats to America and is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of its people, its land, and its government.

Author : Franklin D. Roosevelt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732667561
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State of the Union Addresses written by Franklin D. Roosevelt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: State of the Union Addresses by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Author : Paul D. Moreno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107067715
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal written by Paul D. Moreno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of constitutional government in America during the period of the 'social question'. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, and before the 'second Reconstruction' and cultural revolution of the 1960s, Americans dealt with the challenges of the urban and industrial revolutions. In the crises of the American Revolution and the Civil War, the American founders - and then Lincoln and the Republicans - returned to a long tradition of Anglo-American constitutional principles. During the Industrial Revolution, American political thinkers and actors gradually abandoned those principles for a set of modern ideas, initially called progressivism. The social crisis, culminating in the Great Depression, did not produce a Lincoln to return to the founders' principles, but rather a series of leaders who repudiated them. Since the New Deal, Americans have lived in a constitutional twilight, not having completely abandoned the natural-rights constitutionalism of the founders, nor embraced the entitlement-based welfare state of modern liberalism.

Author : Ira Katznelson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871404508
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time written by Ira Katznelson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the New Deal era highlights the politicians and pundits of the time, many of whom advocated for questionable positions, including separation of the races and an American dictatorship.

Author : Captivating History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781647486228
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American History written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States of America, then keep reading... Eight captivating manuscripts in one book: The History of the United States: A Captivating Guide to American History, Including Events Such as the American Revolution, French and Indian War, Boston Tea Party, Pearl Harbor, and the Gulf War The American Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the American Revolutionary War and the United States of America's Struggle for Independence from Great Britain The Civil War: A Captivating Guide to the American Civil War and Its Impact on the History of the United States History of Chicago: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the Windy City's History The Roaring Twenties: A Captivating Guide to a Period of Dramatic Social and Political Change, a False Sense of Prosperity, and Its Impact on the Great Depression The Great Depression: A Captivating Guide to the Worldwide Economic Depression that Began in the United States, Including the Wall Street Crash, FDR's New deal, Hitler's Rise and More Pearl Harbor: A Captivating Guide to the Surprise Military Strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service that Caused the United States of America's Formal Entry into World War II The Gulf War: A Captivating Guide to the United States-Led Persian Gulf War against Iraq for Their Invasion and Annexation of Kuwait Some of the topics covered in part 1 of this book include: The People Who Were There First A Time of Exploration And much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 2 of this book include: Colonial America The Seven Years' War and Its Consequences Taxation Without Representation And much, much more! In part 3 of this book, you will: An Uneasy Nation The Foundation Cracks And much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 4 of this book include: The Chicago Trail of Tears All Roads (and Railways) Lead to Chicago And much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 6 of this book include: Causes of the Great Depression 1918-1929 Herbert Hoover and the Early Years of the Depression And much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 7 of this book include: The Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Pre-1941 Post-World War I Pearl Harbor And much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part 8 of this book include: Iraqi-Kuwaiti Relations and the Prelude to the War Circumstances and Causes of the Gulf Conflic And much, much more! So if you want to learn more about the captivating history of the United States of America, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!

Author : Aaron D. Purcell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781606352205
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Deal and the Great Depression written by Aaron D. Purcell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts on the 1930s address the changing historical interpretations of a critical period in American history. Following a decade of prosperity, the Great Depression brought unemployment, economic ruin, poverty, and a sense of hopelessness to millions of Americans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs aimed to bring relief, recovery, and reform to the masses. The contributors to this volume exlore how historians have judged the nature, effects, and outcomes of the New Deal.