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The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal
Paul D. Moreno
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Description for The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal
paperback. The story of the breakdown of limited government in America and the rise of the federal state. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107655010
SKU
V9781107655010
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About Paul D. Moreno
Paul D. Moreno is the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in the American Constitution and is the Dean of Faculty at Hillsdale College. He has taught at Hillsdale College for thirteen years and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University and the University of Paris School of Law. He earned his doctorate under Herman Belz at the University of Maryland ... Read more
Reviews for The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal
'This is an important, albeit at times difficult and highly opinionated, analysis of US constitutional development from the immediate post-Civil War era through the New Deal.' Choice 'This study's emphasis on ideas in American political development sets it apart from many similar historical works. Yet the careful research on policy and jurisprudence adds a detailed narrative of the nuts and ... Read more