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Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century

Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century

Cebul, Brent
Geismer, Lily
Williams, Mason B.

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 022659632X
ISBN13: 9780226596327
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Feb 21 2019
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what counts are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. But while crisis-centered frameworks can make sense of certain dimensions of political culture, partisan change, and governance, they also often steal attention from the production of categories like race, gender, and citizenship status that transcend the usual break points in American history.

Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams have brought together first-rate scholars from a wide range of subfields who are making structures of state power--not moments of crisis or partisan realignment--integral to their analyses. All of the contributors see political history as defined less by elite subjects than by tensions between state and economy, state and society, and state and subject--tensions that reveal continuities as much as disjunctures. This broader definition incorporates investigations of the crosscurrents of power, race, and identity; the recent turns toward the history of capitalism and transnational history; and an evolving understanding of American political development that cuts across eras of seeming liberal, conservative, or neoliberal ascendance. The result is a rich revelation of what political history is today.

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