Capitalism, Democracy, and the State in U.S. History Winter Examiner: Kyle G. Volk

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1 Capitalism, Democracy, and the State in U.S. History Winter 2013 Examiner: Kyle G. Volk Overviews Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (1952) Rogers M. Smith, Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America, American Political Science Review 87 (Sep. 1993): Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom (1998) Eric Foner, Freedom in a Global Age AHR James T. Kloppenberg, The Virtues of Liberalism (2000) Byron E. Shafer & Anthony J. Badger, eds., Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, (2001) Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer, eds., The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (2003) Theda Skocpol, Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research, in Skocpol, et.al., Bringing the State Back In, William J. Novak, The Myth of the Weak American State, American Historical Review (2008) Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (2002) Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., Ruling America: A History of Wealth & Power in a Democracy (2005) Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr, American History Now (2011) [selections] Julian E. Zelizer, Governing America: The Revival of Political History (2012) Theoretical Appraisals William Ellery Channing, Remarks on Associations (1829) Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835) John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) Walter Lippmann, Drift & Mastery (1914) Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (1922) John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (1927) John Dewey, Liberalism & Social Action (1935) C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (1956) Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) Michel Foucault, Governmentality, in Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller, eds., The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality (1991), Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: A Category of Bourgeois Society Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of the American Community (2000) Early American Foundations Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (1944) Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975)

2 2 David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (2006) Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2001) Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England & America (1988) Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992) Daniel T. Rodgers, Republicanism: The Career of a Concept, JAH 79 (1992) Gary Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005) Jack Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics & Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996) Max Edling, A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State (2003) [SKIM] Woody Holton, Unruly Americans & the Origins of the Constitution (2007) Akhil Reed Amar, The Bill of Rights: Creation & Reconstruction (1998) Larry D. Kramer, The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (2004) The Golden Age of American Democracy Alan Taylor, William Cooper s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1995) Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005) Michael F. Holt, The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War (2005) Manisha Sinha, Revolution or Counterrevolution?: The Political Ideology of Secession in Antebellum South Carolina, Civil War History 46 (2000), Stephanie McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (2010) Richard L. McCormick, The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era (1986) Daniel Walker Howe, The Evangelical Movement and Political Culture in the North during the Second Party System, Journal of American History 77 (1991), Joel Silbey, The American Political Nation, (1994) Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America: A New Look at the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy, Journal of American History 84 (Dec. 1997), Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000) Paula Baker, The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, , AHR 89 (June 1984) Reeve Huston, What We Talk about When We Talk about Democracy, Commonplace (Oct. 2008) Johann Neem, Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts (2008) Kyle G. Volk, Minorities & the License Question : Liquor, Representation, & the Perils of Pure Democracy in Antebellum America JER (Winter 2009)

3 3 Law & The State in Nineteenth Century America J. Willard Hurst, Law and the Conditions of Freedom (1956) Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, (1978) Eugene Genovese, The Hegemonic Function of Law from Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1976) Lindsay G. Robertson, Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands (2005) Christopher L. Tomlins, Law & Power in the Employment Relationship in Tomlins and Andrew J. King, Labor Law in America: Historical and Critical Essays (1992) William J. Novak, The People s Welfare: Law & Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (1996) Donna Dennis, Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York (2009) Richard White, The Federal Government and the Nineteenth-Century West in It s Your Misfortune and None of My Own : A New History of the American West (1991), Jeff Pasley, Midget on Horseback: American Indians and the History of the American State, Commonplace (October 2008) Richard R. John, Government Institutions as Agents of Change, Studies in American Political Development, 11 (1997): Brian Balogh, A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth- Century America (2009) Labor & Economy in Nineteenth Century America Christopher Clark, Social Change in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War (2007) Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, (1992) Daniel Feller, The Market Revolution Ate My Homework, Reviews in American History 25 (1997) Herbert Gutman, Work, Culture, & Society in Industrializing America, AHR (1973) Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, (1987) David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991) Thomas Bender, ed., The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (1992) Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999) Walter Johnson, The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question, Journal of the Early Republic 24 (Spring 2004), Seth Rockman, Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2008) Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America s Unfinished Revolution, (1988) Eric Foner, The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation, JAH (1994) Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (1998) Elliot West, Reconstructing Race, Western Historical Quarterly 34 (Spring 2003), Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith, eds., Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (2012)

4 4 Power, Order, & Influence in an Industrializing Democracy Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, (1967) Maury Klein, The Genesis of Industrial America, (2007) Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, (2010) Louis Galambos, The Emerging Organizational Synthesis in Modern American History, Business History Review 44 (1970): Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, (2003) Michael McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, (1986) Elisabeth S. Clemens, The People s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, (1997) Richard L. McCormick, The Discovery that Business Corrupts Politics: A Reappraisal of the Origins of Progressivism, AHR 86 (1981): Daniel T. Rodgers, In Search of Progressivism, Reviews in American History 10 (1982) Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (2000) Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, (1982) Morton Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, (1992) William J. Novak, The Legal Origins of the Modern American State (2002) Michael Willrich, City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (2003) Michael Willrich, The Least Vaccinated of Any Civilized Country : Personal Liberty and Public Health in the Progressive Era, Journal of Policy History (Winter 2008). Christopher Capozzola, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (2010) Christopher Tomlins, The State & The Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, (1985) John Fabian Witt, The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law (2006) William E. Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (1991) Making & Unmaking the Modern American State David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, (1999) William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, (1963) Edward A. Purcell, Jr., The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value (1973) Barry Karl, The Uneasy State: The United States from 1915 to 1945 (1985) Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise & Fall of the New Deal Order, (1990) Lizabeth Cohen, Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, (1991) Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995) Laura Kalman, The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism (1996) G. Edward White, The Constitution & the New Deal (2000) Jason Scott Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, (2005) Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen s Crusade Against the New Deal (2009) Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004)

5 5 Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2009) James T. Sparrow, Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (2011) Louis Galambos, eds., The New American State: Bureaucracies & Policies since World War II (1987) Brian Balogh, Chain Reaction: Expert Debate & Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, (1991) Aaron L. Friedberg, In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America s Anti-Statism and Its cold War Grand Strategy (2000) Kim Phillips-Fein and Julian E. Zelizer, eds., What s Good for Business: Business and American Politics Since World War II (2012) Labor, Economy, & Politics in Post-War America James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, (1997) Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985) Robert M. Collins, Growth Liberalism in the Sixties: Great Societies at Home & Grand Designs Abroad from Farber, ed. The Sixties (1994) Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996) Judith Stein, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism (1998) Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA s 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (2001) Jennifer Klein, The Business of Health Security: Employee Health Benefits, Commercial Insurers, and the Reconstruction of Welfare Capitalism, ILWCH (2000) Jacob Hacker, Bringing the Welfare State Back In: The Promise (and Perils) of the New Social Welfare History, Journal of Policy History 17 (2005). Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003) Sarah E. Igo, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (2007) Wendy L. Wall, Inventing the American Way : The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (2008) Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America (1998) Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2002) Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (2007) Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (2009) Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (2011) Darren Dochunk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (2012) David Farber, The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History (2010)

6 Civil Rights & the New Social Regulation David Vogel, The New Social Regulation in Historical and Comparative Perspective from McCraw, ed. Regulation in Perspective: Historical Essays (1981) Mark Tushnet, The Rights Revolution in the Twentieth Century, in The Cambridge History of Law in America, Volume III, Hugh Davis Graham, The Civil Rights Era: Origins & Development of National Policy, (1990) Hugh Davis Graham, Since 1964: The Paradox of American Civil Rights Regulation from Keller & Melnick, ed. Taking Stock (1999) Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000) Risa L. Goluboff, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (2007) Arthur F. McEvoy, The Fisherman s Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, (1986) Samuel P. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, (1987) R. Shep Melnick, Risky Business: Government and the Environment after Earth Day, in Taking Stock, eds., Morton Keller & R. Shep Melnick (1999) Paul Charles Milzzo, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, (2006) 6