Liberty and coercion : the paradox of American government from the founding to the present /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gerstle, Gary, 1954-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Federal government > United States > History. Federal-state controversies > United States > History. Abuse of administrative power > United States > History. Political culture > United States > History. United States > Politics and government. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

A liberal state emerges, 1780-1840
The states and their police power, 1790s-1920s
An improvisational liberal state, 1860-1920
World War I : crisis and resurgence
Money, parties, and extra-constitutional government, 1830-1930
From populism to the iron triangle : building the agricultural state, 1880-1940
From Gilded Age strikes to the treaty of Detroit : the challenge of labor, 1880-1960
Leviathan rising, 1945-1970
Breaking the power of the states, 1960-1980
Leviathan besieged, 1980-2015.
A liberal central state emerges
The states and their police power
Strategies of liberal rule
Lessons of total war
Parties, money, corruption
Agrarian protest and the new liberal state
Reconfiguring labor-capital relations
An era of near-permanent war
Breaking the power of the states
Conservative revolt.