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  • The Evolution of a Nation

    How Geography and Law Shaped the American States

    by Daniel Berkowitz, Karen B. Clay ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this book documents the mechanisms through which geographical and historical conditions--such as climate, ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

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  • From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition

    A History of Social Welfare in America

    by Walter I. Trattner ...
    Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new sixth edition has been updated to include the latest developments in our society as well as trends ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Regulating the Poor

    The Functions of Public Welfare

    by Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward ...
    Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the U.S. welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Gangs of America

    The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy

    by Ted Nace ...
    " Gangs of America is a brilliant page-turner revealing how powerful, greedy corporations wage institutional terrorism." —John Stauber, coauthor of Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Should America Pay?

    Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations

    Edited by Raymond Winbush ...
    Growing interest in reparations for African Americans has prompted a range of responses, from lawsuits against major corporations and a march in Washington to an anti-reparations ad campaign. As a result, the link between slavery and contemporary race relations is more potent and obvious than ever. Grassroots organizers, lawmakers, and distinguished academics have embraced the idea that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Domestic Revolutions

    A Social History Of American Family Life

    by Steven Mintz, Susan Kellogg ...
    An examination of how the concept of “family” has been transformed over the last three centuries in the U.S., from its function as primary social unit to today’s still-evolving model.Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of “family” in the United States over the course of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

    A Social History Of Welfare In America

    by Michael B Katz ...
    With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and updated to include the latest bipartisan debates on how to end welfare as we know it.”In the Shadow of the Poorhouse examines the origins of social welfare, both public and private, from the days of the colonial poorhouse through the current tragedy of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • American Legal History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by G. Edward White ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made-it has played a powerful role in shaping that society, though not always in positive ways. Eminent legal scholar G. Edward White-author of the ongoing, multi-volume Law in American History-offers a compact overview that sheds ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Schools for Misrule

    Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America

    by Walter Olson ...
    From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next.The trouble is, Walter Olson reveals in Schools for Misrule, our elite law schools keep churning out ideas that are catastrophically bad for ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Deep Roots

    How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics

    by Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, Maya Sen ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
    The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American SouthDespite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights, and the death penalty, and southern whites harbor higher levels of racial resentment than whites in ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Ghosts of Jim Crow

    Ending Racism in Post-Racial America

    by F. Michael Higginbotham ...
    A provocative, and timely, solution for ridding America of the traces of Jim Crow policies to create a truly post-racial landscapeWhen America inaugurated its first African American president, in 2009, many wondered if the country had finally become a "post-racial" society. Was this the dawning of a new era, in which America, a nation nearly severed in half by slavery, and whose racial fault lines ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators

    American Society at the End of the Twentieth Century

    by William J. Bennett ...
    For decades Americans have turned to the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic Indicators to spot trends in the economy. The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators brings a similar kind of empirical analysis to the moral, social, and behavioral condition of American society from 1960 to the present--a vivid, clearly accessible portrait in numbers of who and where we are as a nation.First ... Read more

    $11.99 USD