Statebuilding from the margins : between Reconstruction and the New Deal / edited by Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nackenoff, Carol.

Novkov, Julie, 1966-

Series:

American governance

American governance: politics, policy, and public law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progressivism (United States politics).

United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.

United States.

Politics and government.

United States--Social policy.

Social policy.

United States--History--1865-1921.

History.

United States--History--1919-1933.

Physical Description:

vi, 311 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction : statebuilding in the Progressive Era: a continuing dilemma in American political development

ch. 1. Making citizens of freedmen and polygamists / Julie Novkov

ch. 2. Demagogues and the demon drink : newspapers and the revival of prohibition in Georgia / Marek D. Steedman

ch. 3. Statebuilding through corruption : graft and trash in Pittsburgh and New Orleans / Kathleen Sullivan and Patricia Strach

ch. 4. Developing the animal welfare state / Susan J. Pearson and Kimberly K. Smith

ch. 5. Wildlife protection and the development of centralized governance in the Progressive Era / Ann-Marie Szymanski

ch. 6. The house that Julia (and friends) built : networking the Chicago juvenile court / Carol Nackenoff and Kathleen Sullivan

ch. 7. Housing reform and the origins of mortgage redlining in the United States / James L. Greer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812245714

0812245717

OCLC:

855858239