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Shaped by the State
Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century
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2019
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American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what “counts” are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. But while crisis-centered frameworks can make sense of certain dimensions of political culture, partisan change, and governance, they also often steal attention from the production of categories like race, gender, and citizenship status that transcend the usual break points in American history.
Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams have brought together first-rate scholars from a wide range of subfields who are making structures of state power—not moments of crisis or partisan realignment—integral to their analyses. All of the contributors see political history as defined less by elite subjects than by tensions between state and economy, state and society, and state and subject—tensions that reveal continuities as much as disjunctures. This broader definition incorporates investigations of the crosscurrents of power, race, and identity; the recent turns toward the history of capitalism and transnational history; and an evolving understanding of American political development that cuts across eras of seeming liberal, conservative, or neoliberal ascendance. The result is a rich revelation of what political history is today.
Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams have brought together first-rate scholars from a wide range of subfields who are making structures of state power—not moments of crisis or partisan realignment—integral to their analyses. All of the contributors see political history as defined less by elite subjects than by tensions between state and economy, state and society, and state and subject—tensions that reveal continuities as much as disjunctures. This broader definition incorporates investigations of the crosscurrents of power, race, and identity; the recent turns toward the history of capitalism and transnational history; and an evolving understanding of American political development that cuts across eras of seeming liberal, conservative, or neoliberal ascendance. The result is a rich revelation of what political history is today.
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Brent Cebul is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Lily Geismer is associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and the author of Don’t Blame Us. Mason B. Williams is assistant professor of leadership studies and political science at Williams College and the author of City of Ambition.
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“This is an original and unique anthology whose contributions offer theoretically sophisticated reassessments of the subfield of political history. Both capacious and generative, I know of no other work that comes close in offering so many fresh interpretations of twentieth-century US history and revisions of twentieth-century US historiography. The essays are well written and engaging, new and enlightening.”
— Peter James Hudson, University of California, Los Angeles“Shaped by the State brings together a valuable collection of reports from the borderlands where social, cultural, and political history intersect—and reinvigorate—each other.”
— Daniel Rodgers, Princeton University“Essential reading for all political historians and historians of the twentieth-century United States.”
— Journal of American History“Cebul, Geismer, and Williams call for an analysis of the American state that decenters political parties or ideologies and instead focuses on the norms, assumptions, and values that fuel American governance. . . . What they suggest is nothing short of a revolution in the history of U.S. political history, destined to encourage many among us to consider a wholesale upheaval of our 20th-century US survey courses.”
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Beyond Red and Blue
3 - PART I. Building Leviathan
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Chapter One. Social Insecurities
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Chapter Two. The Strange Career of American Liberalism
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Chapter Three “Really and Truly a Partnership”
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Chapter Four. State Building for a Free Market
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Chapter Five. La revolución institucional
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Chapter Six. The Short End of Both Sticks
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Chapter Seven. Clearing the Air and Counting Costs
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Chapter Eight. Glocal America
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Chapter Nine. The Government Alone Cannot Do the Total Job
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Chapter Ten. A Carceral Empire
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Chapter Eleven. Fears of a Nanny State
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The History of Neoliberalism
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Ten Propositions for the New Political History
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Contributors
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Index
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December 16, 2020
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Keywords for this book
united states history; 20th century; political theory; social science; narratives of crisis; crisis-centered framework; partisan change; governance; citizenship status; race; gender; equality; state power; elite subjects; economy; society; identity; capitalism; transnationalism; liberal; conservative; neoliberal ascendance; anthology; historiography; ideologies; revolution; congress; private data; religious organizations; free market; prisons and policing; property assessments; refugee care
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
