The Oxford Handbook of American Political History

Autorentext
Paula Baker is Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University. Her most recent book is Curbing Campaign Cash: Henry Ford, Truman Newberry, and the Politics of Progressive Reform. Donald Critchlow is Katzin Family Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is the author of twenty-three books, including Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan and Future Right: The Forging of a New Republican Majority.

Klappentext
This collection of essays by twenty-nine distinguished scholars provides readers with a complete overview of American politics and policy that can be found in any single volume. These essays reveal that American politics historically is volatile, not given easily to civility, and polarizing; at the same time, they explore important political developments in addressing real issues confronting the nation and the world.

Zusammenfassung
American political and policy history has revived since the turn of the twenty-first century. After social and cultural history emerged as dominant forces to reveal the importance of class, race, and gender within the United States, the application of this line of work to American politics and policy followed. In addition, social movements, particularly the civil rights and feminism, helped rekindle political and policy history. As a result, a new generation of historians turned their attention to American politics. Their new approach still covers traditional subjects, but more often it combines an interest in the state, politics, and policy with other specialties (urban, labor, social, and race, among others) within the history and social science disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of American Political History incorporates and reflects this renaissance of American political history. It not only provides a chronological framework but also illustrates fundamental political themes and debates about public policy, including party systems, women in politics, political advertising, religion, and more. Chapters on economy, defense, agriculture, immigration, transportation, communication, environment, social welfare, health care, drugs and alcohol, education, and civil rights trace the development and shifts in American policy history. This collection of essays by 29 distinguished scholars offers a comprehensive overview of American politics and policy.

Inhalt
Introduction:
Paula Baker and Donald T. Critchlow
1. Colonial Politics
Steven Conway
2. The Politics of the Constitution
David Briand Robertson
3. The Early Republic
John L. Brooke
4. Democrats and Whigs: The Second American Party System
Harry L. Watson
5. The Politics of Slavery and the Coming Civil War
John Ashworth
6. Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Erik B. Alexander
7. Politics in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Paula Baker
8. The Politics of Depression and War
Jason Scott Smith
9. Party Politics and National Policy, Post-World War II
Daniel DiSalvo
10. The Rules of the Game
Jack Reynolds
11. Voting Rights
Morgan Kousser
12. Third Parties
Bob McMath
13. The Role of Money in Politics
Robert E. Mutch
14. Political Advertising and the Media
Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Eunji Kim
15. Religion and American Politics
Daniel K. Williams
16. Ethnic Politics in American History
James J. Connolly
17. Tax and Fiscal Regimes in the United States: The Long-Swings
Elliot Brownlee
18. Defense and Foreign Policy
Timothy J. Lynch
19. Gender and Political Citizenship
Eileen McDonagh and Danielle M. Thomsen
20. Immigration Policy: Restrictive and Expansive Traditions
Daniel J. Tichenor and Kathryn Miller
21. The Three Regimes of American Transportation Policy
Gregory L. Schneider
22. Communications and Technology Policy
Heidi Tworek
23. Environmental and Energy Policy
Brian Black
24. Social Welfare Policy
Joel Blau
25. Health Policy
Christy Ford Chapin
26. The Long Shadow of Prohibition: U.S. Drug and Alcohol Policy in the Twentieth Century
Scott Martin
27. Federal Education Policy
Wayne J. Urban
28. Civil Rights Policy
Baker and Donald T. Critchlow
Index

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