Liberty and coercion
Subtitle: the paradox of American government from the founding to the present
By: Gary Gerstle
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780691162942
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Abuse of administrative power; Federal-state controversies; Federal government; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A liberal state emerges, 1780-1840; title: The states and their police power, 1790s-1920s; title: An improvisational liberal state, 1860-1920; title: World War I : crisis and resurgence; title: Money, parties, and extra-constitutional government, 1830-1930; title: From populism to the iron triangle : building the agricultural state, 1880-1940; title: From Gilded Age strikes to the treaty of Detroit : the challenge of labor, 1880-1960; title: Leviathan rising, 1945-1970; title: Breaking the power of the states, 1960-1980; title: Leviathan besieged, 1980-2015.; title: A liberal central state emerges; title: The states and their police power; title: Strategies of liberal rule; title: Lessons of total war; title: Parties, money, corruption; title: Agrarian protest and the new liberal state; title: Reconfiguring labor-capital relations; title: An era of near-permanent war; title: Breaking the power of the states; title: Conservative revolt.