Boundaries of the state in US history /

The question of how the American state defines its power has become central to a range of historical topics, from the founding of the Republic and the role of the educational system to the functions of agencies and America's place in the world. Yet conventional histories of the state have not r...

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Other Authors: Sparrow, James T. (Editor), Novak, William J., 1961- (Editor), Sawyer, Stephen W., 1974- (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
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505 0 |a The early American state "in action" : the federal Marine hospitals, 1789-1860 / Gautham Rao -- Beyond Tocqueville's myth : rethinking the model of the American state / Stephen W. Sawyer -- Inventing the US-Mexico border / C.J. Alvarez -- Rumors of empire : tracking the image of Britain at the dawn of the American century / James T. Sparrow -- The great transformation : the state and the market in the postwar world / Jason Scott Smith -- Governing the child : the state, the family, and the compulsory school in the early twentieth century / Tracy Steffes -- Youth as infrastructure : 4-H and the intimate state in 1920s rural America / Gabriel N. Rosenberg -- Good citizens of a world power : postwar reconfigurations of the obligation to give / Elisabeth Clemens -- 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 -- Private power and American bureaucracy : the state, the EEOC, and civil rights enforcement / Robert C. Lieberman -- 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 -- Conclusion : the concept of the state in American history / William J. Novak. 
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