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Gateway State - Hawaiâ€˜I And The Cultural Transformation Of American Empire

by Sarah Miller-Davenport

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 How Hawai'i became an emblem of multiculturalism during its journey to statehood in the mid-twentieth centuryGateway State explores the development of Hawai'i as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization. The establishment of Hawai'i statehood in 1959 was a watershed moment, not only i
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The Deportation Machine - America'S Long History Of Expelling Immigrants

by Adam Goodman

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 The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' livesConstant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century. The Deportation Machine traces the long and troubling history of the US government's syst
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Getting Tough - Welfare And Imprisonment In 1970s America

by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann

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 The politics and policies that led to America's expansion of the penal system and reduction of welfare programsIn 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped expand the nation's penal system, discredit welfare programs, and cast blame for the era's social upheaval on racialized deviants
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Don'T Blame Us - Suburban Liberals And The Transformation Of The Democratic Party

by Lily Geismer

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 Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the hi
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The Good Immigrants - How The Yellow Peril Became The Model Minority

by Madeline Y. Hsu

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 Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites--intellectuals, businessmen, and students--who gained entrance because of immigration exemptions. Exploring a century
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A Class By Herself - Protective Laws For Women Workers, 1890sâ€“1990s

by Nancy Woloch

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 A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws--such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and ni
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The Great Exception - The New Deal And The Limits Of American Politics

by Jefferson Cowie

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 Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the United States government ac
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Rise Of A Prairie Statesman - The Life And Times Of George Mcgovern

by Thomas J. Knock

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 The Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became America's most eloquent and prescient critic of the Vietnam War. In this masterful book, Thomas Knock traces George McGovern's life from his rustic boyhood in a South Dakota prairie town during the Depression to his rise
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Lobbying America - The Politics Of Business From Nixon To Nafta

by Benjamin C. Waterhouse

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 Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented policy agenda to Congress and the country at large
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The Second Red Scare And The Unmaking Of The New Deal Left

by Landon R.Y. Storrs

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 In the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal. The crisis of the Great Depression had brought into government a group of policy experts who argued that saving democracy required attacking economic and social inequalities. The influence of these men and women within the
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Trucking Country - The Road To America'S Wal-Mart Economy

by Shane Hamilton

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 Presents a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. This book challenges the popular notion of "red state" conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Party.
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The Straight State - Sexuality And Citizenship In Twentieth-Century America

by Margot Canaday

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 Shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. This title looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare.
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Changing The World - American Progressives In War And Revolution

by Alan Dawley

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 Focusing on world-historical events of empire, revolution, war, and peace, this work shows how American reformers invented a new politics built around progressive internationalism. It retrieves the progressive tradition in American politics and makes it available to contemporary debates.
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White Flight - Atlanta And The Making Of Modern Conservatism

by Kevin M. Kruse

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 Explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, this book moves past stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance.
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Morning In America - How Ronald Reagan Invented The 1980'S

by Gil Troy

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 Did America's fortieth president lead a conservative counter revolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often "yes." This work covers Ronald Reagan's legacy taking us through the 1980s in ten year-by-year chapters.
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American Babylon - Race And The Struggle For Postwar Oakland

by Robert O. Self

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 Traces both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. This work shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, and race within postwar metropolitan development.
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For All These Rights - Business, Labor, And The Shaping Of America'S Public-Private Welfare State

by Jennifer Klein

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 The New Deal placed security at the center of American political and economic life by establishing an explicit partnership between the state, economy, and citizens. This history of the American reliance on employment-based benefits examines the interwoven politics of social provision and labor relations from the 1910s to the 1960s.
Police Against The Movement - The Sabotage Of The Civil Rights Struggle And The Activists Who Fought Back

by Joshua Clark Davis

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Cold War Civil Rights - Race And The Image Of American Democracy, 25th Anniversary Edition

by Mary L. Dudziak

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Cold War Civil Rights - Race And The Image Of American Democracy, 25th Anniversary Edition

by Mary L. Dudziak

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Hillbilly Highway - The Transappalachian Migration And The Making Of A White Working Class

by Max Fraser

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The Migrant'S Jail - An American History Of Mass Incarceration

by Brianna Nofil

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Empire Of Purity - The History Of Americans' Global War On Prostitution

by Eva Payne

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24/7 Politics - Cable Television And The Fragmenting Of America From Watergate To Fox News

by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

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