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  • The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

    America and the World in the Free Market Era

    by Gary Gerstle ...
    The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces- ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Liberty and Coercion

    The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present

    by Gary Gerstle ...
    How the conflict between federal and state power has shaped American historyAmerican governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion, and schooling on their neighbors. These contradictory stances on the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980

    Edited by Steve Fraser, Gary Gerstle ...
    The description for this book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980, will be forthcoming. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • States of Exception in American History

    Edited by Gary Gerstle, Joel Isaac ...
    States of Exception in American History brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the polity. In the United States, derogations from the rule of law seem to have been a feature of—not a bug in—the constitutional system.The first ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • American Crucible

    Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century

    by Gary Gerstle ...
    This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of the "right" ancestry? Gary Gerstle traces the forces of civic and racial nationalism, arguing that both ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Ruling America

    A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy

    Edited by Steve Fraser, Gary Gerstle ...
    Ruling America offers a panoramic history of our country's ruling elites from the time of the American Revolution to the present. At its heart is the greatest of American paradoxes: How have tiny minorities of the rich and privileged consistently exercised so much power in a nation built on the notion of rule by the people?In a series of thought-provoking essays, leading scholars of American ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Beyond the New Deal Order

    U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

    Edited by Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, Alice O'Connor ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Ever since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of the New Deal order—the combination of ideas, electoral and governing strategies, redistributive social policies, and full employment economics that became the standard-bearer for political liberalism in the wake of the Great Depression and commanded Democratic ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Beyond the New Deal Order

    U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

    Edited by Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, Alice O'Connor ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Ever since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of the New Deal order—the combination of ideas, electoral and governing strategies, redistributive social policies, and full employment economics that became the standard-bearer for political liberalism in the wake of the Great Depression and commanded Democratic ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Working-Class Americanism

    The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960

    by Gary Gerstle ...
    In this classic interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, Gary Gerstle challenges the popular historical notion that American workers' embrace of "Americanism" and other patriotic sentiments in the post-World War I years indicated their fundamental political conservatism. He argues that Americanism was a complex, even contradictory, language of nationalism that lent itself to a wide ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Democracy in the Modern Age

    by Eugenio Biagini ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    This volume explores democracy in the 20th century, examining the triumph, crises, recovery, and resilience of democracy and its associated cultures in this period.From 1920 democracy became the hegemonic discourse in political cultures, to the extent that even its enemies claimed its legacy. The end of empires ushered in an unprecedented globalization of democratic aspirations. Barriers of gender ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Nationalism in the New World

    by Barbara Weinstein, Craig Calhoun, Eric Van Young, Gary Gerstle, Hayley Froysland, Heather Thiessen-Reily, Jack P. Greene, Jeane DeLaney, Jorge Myers, Phillip Buckner, Susan-Mary Grant, T. H. Breen, Wilma Peres Costa ...
    Nationalism in the New World brings together work by scholars from the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe to discuss the common problem of how the nations of the Americas grappled with the basic questions of nationalism: Who are we? How do we imagine ourselves as a nation? Debates over the origins and meanings of nationalism have emerged at the forefront of the humanities and social ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

    America and the World in the Free Market Era

    by Gary Gerstle ...
    Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    The epochal shift toward neoliberalism—a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces—that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world. Today, the word "neoliberal" is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies, from prizing free market ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook