Title: Transatlantic social politics : 1800-present /
Authors: Scroop, Daniel, 1973-; Heath, Andrew,; Scroop, Daniel, 1973-; Heath, Andrew.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Social networks Political aspects Europe History.; Social networks Political aspects United States History.; Political culture Europe History.; Political culture United States History.; HISTORY / Europe / General.; HISTORY / United States / General.; HISTORY / World.; HISTORY / Modern / General.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy.; Europe Relations United States.; United States Relations Europe.; Europe Politics and government.; United States Politics and government.; Europe Social policy.; United States Social policy.
Abstract: "This edited collection, comprising essays by an array of established and emerging scholars from Europe and the United States, offers a fresh perspective on the history of transatlantic political networks and exchanges since 1800. Historians such as Daniel T. Rodgers have already shown how important such networks were in shaping the politics of the modern Atlantic world. To date, however, this field has been dominated by studies of the activities and ideas of progressive reformers, with a particular focus on the period 1870-1940, an era in which reform networks coalesced so as to fashion the world of 'social politics' so brilliantly depicted in Rodgers's path-breaking study Atlantic Crossings (1998). The contributions gathered here challenge the chronological and ideological orientation of such work. They do so by collectively proposing a new periodization of modern transatlantic politics--one demonstrating the vitality and long-range significance both of early and mid-nineteenth, and of post-1945 interactions. At the same time, they illustrate the ideological heterogeneity of transatlantic political exchange, which encompassed a kaleidoscope of conservative, radical, and populist elements, in addition to the progressive and liberal currents about which so much has already been written"--
Contents: 1. An American Sonderzeit? : Reconsidering Antebellum Atlantic Crossings / David Komline -- 2. The Transatlantic Context of U.S. Debates about Emancipation Policy during the 1860s / Nichola Clayton -- 3. "That is the way to advance a town" : Haussmann's Paris and the Reconstruction of Philadelphia, 1852-1871 / Andrew Heath -- 4. "Acquainting America with work in foreign experiment stations" : Benjamin Orange Flower and The Arena, 1889-1909 / Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet -- 5. Bryan and Brandeis : Antimonopoly and the Transatlantic Politics of Scale, 1880-1940 / Daniel Scroop -- 6. Beyond "Uplift" and "Efficiency" : Isaac M. Rubinow, Health Insurance Reform, and Transatlantic Progressivism, 1900-1930 / Axel R. Schäfer -- 7. Social Politics in a Transoceanic World in the Early Cold War Years / Jonathan Bell -- 8. "A loyal friend" : Spain and the National Review Conservatives / David Sarias Rodríguez -- 9. The Spanish Right in the 1960s and the Debate about the End of Ideologies / Manuel Álvarez Tardío -- 10. Transnational Social Politics after the 1960s : Verso Books and the Politics of Central American Solidarity / Nick Witham.