Boundaries of the state in US history
By: edited by James T. Sparrow, William J. Novak, Stephen W. Sawyer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780226277646; 9780226277783
Subjects: Politics and government; Federal government; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The early American state "in action" : the federal Marine hospitals, 1789-1860 / Gautham Rao; title: Beyond Tocqueville's myth : rethinking the model of the American state / Stephen W. Sawyer; title: Inventing the US-Mexico border / C.J. Alvarez; title: Rumors of empire : tracking the image of Britain at the dawn of the American century / James T. Sparrow; title: The great transformation : the state and the market in the postwar world / Jason Scott Smith; title: Governing the child : the state, the family, and the compulsory school in the early twentieth century / Tracy Steffes; title: Youth as infrastructure : 4-H and the intimate state in 1920s rural America / Gabriel N. Rosenberg; title: Good citizens of a world power : postwar reconfigurations of the obligation to give / Elisabeth Clemens; title: The rise of the public religious welfare state : black religion and the negotiation of church/state boundaries during the war on poverty / Omar M. McRoberts; title: Private power and American bureaucracy : the state, the EEOC, and civil rights enforcement / Robert C. Lieberman; title: From political economy to civil society : Arthur W. Page, corporate philanthropy, and the reframing of the past in post-New Deal America / Richard R. John; title: Conclusion : the concept of the state in American history / William J. Novak.