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  • The Judicial Tug of War

    How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary

    by Adam Bonica, Maya Sen ...
    Series series Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment - emphasized qualifications and experience over ideology? This transformative text tackles these questions with a new framework for thinking about the nation's courts, 'the judicial tug of war', which not only explains current political clashes over America's courts, but also ... Read more

    $40.99 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

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  • When Affirmative Action Was White

    An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action.In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. Through ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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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

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  • A Disability History of the United States

    by Kim E. Nielsen ...
    Series Book 2 - ReVisioning History
    The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the presentDisability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of people with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Black Power

    Politics of Liberation in America

    by Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton ...
    An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Declining Significance of Race

    Blacks and Changing American Institutions

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    When first published in 1980, The Declining Significance of Race immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class. This new edition of the seminal book includes a new afterword in which William Julius Wilson not only reflects on the debate surrounding the book, but also presents a ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan

    Right-Wing Movements and National Politics

    by Rory McVeigh ...
    Series series Social Movements, Protest and Contention
    In 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society. By the early 1920s the KKK had been transformed into a national movement with millions of dues-paying members and chapters in all of the nation’s forty-eight states. And unlike the Reconstruction-era society, the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • 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