The Reconstruction Of American Liberalism 1865 1914

Author : Nancy Cohen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860093
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914 written by Nancy Cohen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the transformation of liberal political ideology from the end of the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Nancy Cohen offers a new interpretation of the origins and character of modern liberalism. She argues that the values and programs associated with modern liberalism were formulated not during the Progressive Era, as most accounts maintain, but earlier, in the very different social context of the Gilded Age. Integrating intellectual, social, cultural, and economic history, Cohen argues that the reconstruction of liberalism hinged on the reaction of postbellum liberals to social and labor unrest. As new social movements of workers and farmers arose and phrased their protests in the rhetoric of democratic producerism, liberals retreated from earlier commitments to an expansive vision of democracy. Redefining liberal ideas about citizenship and the state, says Cohen, they played a critical role in legitimating emergent corporate capitalism and politically insulating it from democratic challenge. As the social cost of economic globalization comes under international critical scrutiny, this book revisits the bitter struggles over the relationship between capitalism and democracy in post-Civil War America. The resolution of this problem offered by the new liberalism deeply influenced the progressives and has left an enduring legacy for twentieth-century American politics, Cohen argues.

Author : Gillis J. Harp
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271039906
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Positivist Republic written by Gillis J. Harp and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Tariello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780835731416
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reconstruction of American Political Ideology, 1865-1917 written by Frank Tariello and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Tariello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reconstruction of American Political Ideology, 1865-1917 written by Frank Tariello and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher McKnight Nichols
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119775701
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era written by Christopher McKnight Nichols and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power. The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches In today’s era, often referred to as a “second Gilded Age,” this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections

Author : Robert D. Johnston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849527
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Radical Middle Class written by Robert D. Johnston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even anticapitalist legacy of the middle class. By examining in particular the independent small business sector or petite bourgeoisie, using Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, as a case study, Robert Johnston shows that class still matters in America. But it matters only if the politics and culture of the leading player in affairs of class, the middle class, is dramatically reconceived. This book is a powerful combination of intellectual, business, labor, medical, and, above all, political history. Its author also humanizes the middle class by describing the lives of four small business owners: Harry Lane, Will Daly, William U'Ren, and Lora Little. Lane was Portland's reform mayor before becoming one of only six senators to vote against U.S. entry into World War I. Daly was Oregon's most prominent labor leader and a onetime Socialist. U'Ren was the national architect of the direct democracy movement. Little was a leading antivaccinationist. The Radical Middle Class further explores the Portland Ku Klux Klan and concludes with a national overview of the American middle class from the Progressive Era to the present. With its engaging narrative, conceptual richness, and daring argumentation, it will be welcomed by all who understand that reexamining the middle class can yield not only better scholarship but firmer grounds for democratic hope.

Author : Andrew L. Slap
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823227111
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doom of Reconstruction written by Andrew L. Slap and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. In this innovative study, Andrew Slap argues forcefully that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites and a class-based radical reform movement. The election, he demonstrates, had broad consequences: in their opposition to widespread Federal corruption, Greeley Republicans unintentionally doomed Reconstruction of any kind, even as they lost the election. Based on close readings of newspapers, party documents, and other primary sources, Slap confronts one of the major questions in American political history: How, and why, did Reconstruction come to an end? His focus on the unintended consequences of Liberal Republican politics is a provocative contribution to this important debate.

Author : Geoffrey Poitras
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776 written by Geoffrey Poitras and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poitras (finance, Simon Fraser University) provides an account of the early development of financial economics and presents a foundation for the study of modern financial economics. The book chronicles the development of early financial economics, from the appearance of the first printed commercial arithmetic in 1478 to the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776. The origins of the subject are traced back to the commercial arithmetic of the Renaissance reckoning schools. The contributions of de Moivre, Halley, and Stevin are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Charles J. Holden
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034763
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Great Maelstrom written by Charles J. Holden and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Great Maelstrom demonstrates how the state's conservatives adjusted their views at critical times, while clinging to other core values through the long decades."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael J. Douma
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498536115
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is Classical Liberal History? written by Michael J. Douma and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians working in the classical liberal tradition believe that individual decision-making and individual rights matter in the making of history. History written in the classical liberal tradition emerged largely in the nineteenth century, when the field of history was first professionalized in Europe and the Americas. Professional historical research was then imbued with liberal values, which included rigorous attention to the sources, historicist suspicion of an ultimate mover, an honest and dispassionate rational outlook, and humility towards what could be known. Above all, liberals wanted to chart the history of liberty, warn against threats to liberty, and defend it in an evolving political world. They believed history was real, and that it had lessons to teach, but that these lessons could not provide sufficient knowledge to predict the future or reorganize society around a central plan. This book demonstrates how the classical liberal tradition in historical writing persists to this day, but how it is often neglected and due for renewal. The book contrasts the classical liberal view on history with conservative, progressive, Marxist, and post-modern views. Each of the eleven chapters address a different historical topic, from the development of classical liberalism in nineteenth century America to the the history of civil liberties and civil rights that stemmed from this tradition. Authors give particular attention to the importance of social and economic analysis. Each contributor was chosen as an expert in their field to provide a historiographical overview of their subject, and to explain what the classical liberal contribution to this historiography has been and should be. Authors then provide guidance towards possible tools of analysis and related research topics that future historians working in the classical liberal tradition could take up. The authors wish to call upon other historians to recognize the important contributions to historical understanding that have come and can be provided by the insights of classical liberalism.