Professor Gary Gerstle's Books

Inventing the "American Way" : The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement

The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement

By: Wendy L. Wall Assistant Professor of History Queen's University

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Inventing the "American Way" : The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement

The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement

By: Wendy L. Wall Assistant Professor of History Queen's University

In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values. Or so the story has long been told. Inventing the "American Way" challenges this vision of inevitable consensus. Americans, as Wendy Wall argues in this innovative book, were united, not so much by identical beliefs, as by a shared conviction that a distinctive "American Way" existed and that the affirmation of such common ground was essential to the future of the nation. Moreover, the roots of consensus politics lie not in the Cold War era, but in the turbulent decade that preceded U.S. entry into World War II. The social and economic chaos of the Depression years alarmed a diverse array of groups, as did the rise of two "alien" ideologies: fascism and communism. In this context, Americans of divergent backgrounds and beliefs seized on the notion of a unifying "American Way" and sought to convince their fellow citizens of its merits. Wall traces the competing efforts of business groups, politicians, leftist intellectuals, interfaith proponents, civil rights activists, and many others over nearly three decades to shape public understandings of the "American Way." Along the way, she explores the politics behind cultural productions ranging from The Adventures of Superman to the Freedom Train that circled the nation in the late 1940s. She highlights the intense debate that erupted over the term "democracy" after World War II, and identifies the origins of phrases such as "free enterprise" and the "Judeo-Christian tradition" that remain central to American political life. By uncovering the culture wars of the mid-twentieth century, this book sheds new light on a period that proved pivotal for American national identity and that remains the unspoken backdrop for debates over multiculturalism, national unity, and public values today.

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0198044038

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America's Three Regimes : A New Political History

A New Political History

By: Morton Keller Professor of History Brandeis University

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America's Three Regimes : A New Political History

A New Political History

By: Morton Keller Professor of History Brandeis University

When historians take the long view, they look at "ages" or "eras" (the Age of Jackson, the Progressive Era). But these time spans last no longer than a decade or so. In this groundbreaking new book, Morton Keller divides our nation's history into three regimes, each of which lasts many, many decades, allowing us to appreciate, as never before, the slow steady evolution of American public life. Americans like to think of our society as eternally young and effervescent. But the reality is very different. A proper history of America must be as much about continuity, persistence, and evolution as about transformation and revolution. To provide this proper history, Keller groups America's past into three long regimes--Deferential and Republican, from the colonial period to the 1820s; Party and Democratic, from the 1830s to the 1930s; and Populist and Bureaucratic, from the 1930s to the present. This approach yields many new insights. We discover, for instance, that the history of colonial America, the Revolution, and the Early Republic is a more unified story than usually assumed. The Civil War, industrialization, and the Progressive era did relatively little to alter the character of the democratic-party regime that lasted from the 1830s to the 1930s. And the populist-bureaucratic regime in which we live today has seen changes in politics, government, and law as profound as those that occurred in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As Keller underscores the sheer staying power of America's public institutions, he sheds light on current concerns as well: in particular, will the current political polarization continue or will more moderate forces prevail. Here then is a major contribution to United States history--an entirely new way to look at our past, our present, and our future--packed with provocative and original observations about American public life.

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0198043570

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After Progress : American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century

American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century

By: Norman Birnbaum University Professor of the Social Sciences Georgetown University Law School

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After Progress : American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century

American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century

By: Norman Birnbaum University Professor of the Social Sciences Georgetown University Law School

The twentieth century witnessed a profound shift in both socialism and social reform. In the early 1900s, social reform seemed to offer a veritable religion of redemption, but by the century's end, while socialism remained a vibrant force in European society, a culture of extreme individualism and consumption all but squeezed the welfare state out of existence. Documenting this historic change, After Progress: European Socialism and American Social Reform in the 20th Century is the first truly comprehensive look at the course of social reform and Western politics after Communism, brilliantly explained by a major social thinker of our time. Norman Birnbaum traces in fascinating detail the forces that have shifted social concern over the course of a century, from the devastation of two world wars, to the post-war golden age of economic growth and democracy, to the ever-increasing dominance of the market. He makes sense of the historical trends that have created a climate in which politicians proclaim the arrival of a new historical epoch but rarely offer solutions to social problems that get beyond cost-benefit analyses. Birnbaum goes one step further and proposes a strategy for bringing the market back into balance with the social needs of the people. He advocates a reconsideration of the notion of work, urges that market forces be brought under political control, and stresses the need for education that teaches the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Both a sweeping historical survey and a sharp-edged commentary on current political posturing, After Progress examines the state of social reform past, present and future.

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0195347951

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Divergent Paths : How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth

How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth

By: Marc Egnal Professor of History York University

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Divergent Paths : How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth

How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth

By: Marc Egnal Professor of History York University

Why are some countries without an apparent abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, economic success stories, while other languish in the doldrums of slow growth. In this comprehensive look at North American economic history, Marc Egnal argues that culture and institutions play an integral role in determining economic outcome. He focuses his examination on the eight colonies of the North, five colonies of the South (which together made up the original thirteen states), and French Canada. Using census data, diaries, travelers' accounts, and current scholarship, Egnal systematically explores how institutions (such as slavery in the South and the seigneurial system in French Canada) and cultural arenas (such as religion, literacy, entrepreneurial spirit, and intellectual activity) influenced development. He seeks to answer why three societies with similar standards of living in 1750 became so dissimilar in development. By the mid-nineteenth century, the northern states had surged ahead in growth, and this gap continued to widen into the twentieth century. Egnal argues that culture and institutions allowed this growth in the North, not resources or government policies. Both the South and French Canada stressed hierarchy and social order more than the drive for wealth. Rarely have such parallels been drawn between these two societies. Complete numerous helpful appendices, figures, tables, and maps, Divergent Paths is a rich source of unique perspectives on economic development with strong implications for emerging societies.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019535687X

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Arbitrating Empire

United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

By: Allison Powers,Assistant Professor of History Allison Powers

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Arbitrating Empire

United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

By: Allison Powers,Assistant Professor of History Allison Powers

Arbitrating Empire uncovers how ordinary people used arbitral claims commissions to challenge state violence across the United States Empire during the first decades of the twentieth century and why the State Department attempts to erase their efforts remade modern international law.

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0190093005

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Nation State and Immigration

The Age of Population Movements

By: Professor Anita Shapira,Yedidia Z. Stern,Alexander Yakobson

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Nation State and Immigration

The Age of Population Movements

By: Professor Anita Shapira,Yedidia Z. Stern,Alexander Yakobson

For the last two centuries, the nation state has posed a formidable challenge to multinational empires. It has served as a base for modernisation, secularisation and democratisation -- and also for the formation of totalitarian regimes. Today, the nation state faces challenges from multiple directions. National minorities demand self-determination while religious forces challenge secular governments, and global migration movements undermine the cultural uniformity once considered essential for the formation and preservation of nation states. This is the third of a three-volume set (detailed below) which addresses key challenges facing the contemporary nation state from a global perspective but with special emphasis on the Middle East and Israel. Publication reflects research conducted under the auspices of The Israel Democracy Institute's "Nation State Project", which analyses Israel's complex reality in which a Jewish majority contends with an Arab minority, ultra-Orthodox religious forces reject the authority of the nation state, and an immigrant society exhibits substantial cultural and ethnic variance. Volume III explores the cultural, social and political effects of immigration on the contemporary nation state -- its character, cohesion, and possible future, as well as on contemporary liberal democracy. Contributions deal with such issues as different liberal approaches to the issue of immigration and immigrant integration, nation-building narratives and their implications for immigrants and minorities, citizenship tests and integration policy in the United States and in Europe, as well as Israel's Law of Return and the debate about it and other aspects of immigration policy.

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Liverpool University Press

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1836241968

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9781836241966

Americans in a World at War

Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper

By: Brooke L. Blower

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Americans in a World at War

Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper

By: Brooke L. Blower

On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them toward war. Combat soldiers made up only a small fraction of the millions of Americans, both in and out of uniform, who scattered across six continents during the Second World War. This book uncovers a surprising history of American noncombatants abroad in the years leading into the twentieth century's most consequential conflict. Long before GIs began storming beaches and liberating towns, Americans had forged extensive political, economic, and personal ties to other parts of the world. These deep and sometimes contradictory engagements, which preceded the bombing of Pearl Harbor, would shape and in turn be transformed by the US war effort. As the Yankee Clipper's passengers' travels take them from Ukraine, France, Spain, Panama, Cuba, and the Philippines to Java, India, Australia, Britain, Egypt, the Soviet Union, and the Belgian Congo, among other hot spots, their movements defy simple boundaries between home front and war front and upend conventional American narratives about World War II"--

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Oxford University Press

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0199322007

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Canada First, Not Canada Alone

A History of Canadian Foreign Policy

By: Adam Chapnick,Professor of Defence Studies Adam Chapnick,Asa McKercher,Assistant Professor of History Asa McKercher

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Canada First, Not Canada Alone

A History of Canadian Foreign Policy

By: Adam Chapnick,Professor of Defence Studies Adam Chapnick,Asa McKercher,Assistant Professor of History Asa McKercher

The definitive history of Canadian foreign policy since the 1930s, Canada First, Not Canada Alone examines how successive prime ministers have promoted Canada's national interests in a world that has grown increasingly complex and interconnected. Case studies focused on environmental reform, Indigenous peoples, trade, hostage diplomacy, and wartime strategy illustrate the breadth of issues that shape Canada's global realm. Drawing from extensive primary and secondary research, Adam Chapnick and Asa McKercher offer a fresh take on how Canada positions itself in the world.

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0197653715

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Since 1865

The Brief American Pageant: A History of the Republic

By: Kennedy,David M. Kennedy,Lizabeth Cohen,Professor Thomas Andrew Bailey,Mel Piehl

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Since 1865

The Brief American Pageant: A History of the Republic

By: Kennedy,David M. Kennedy,Lizabeth Cohen,Professor Thomas Andrew Bailey,Mel Piehl

The Brief American Pageant retains the vivid chronological narrative of its full-length counterpart, focusing on the great public debates that have dominated American history. Engaging features draw students into the narrative, improving comprehension and increasing their interest in the material. "Varying Viewpoints" features explore the scholarly debates surrounding major historical issues, while "Makers of America" essays focus on the diverse ethnic, racial, and activist groups that compose America's pluralistic society.

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Cengage Learning

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0618332707

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Liberty, Equality, and Power

A History of the American People, Vol 1 4th Ed, Historyunbound: Interactive Explorations in History

By: John M. Murrin,Paul E. Johnson,George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History James M McPherson,James M. McPherson,Gary Gerstle,Professor of History and Director of the Center for Historical Studies Gary Gerstle,Emily S. Rosenberg,Norman L. Rosenberg

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Liberty, Equality, and Power

A History of the American People, Vol 1 4th Ed, Historyunbound: Interactive Explorations in History

Have real-time access to online modules from HistoryUnbound, including maps, timelines, art, critical thinking questions and over 300 primary source readings. Modules include Choosing Sides: Colonial Social Groups on the Eve of the Revolution, the Wizard of Oz as a Populist Parable, Chicago: Building a City and many more. Visit http: //history.wadsworth.com and select HistoryUnbound to view sample modules

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0534627536

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Liberty, Equality, and Power

A History of the American People to 1877

By: John M. Murrin,Professor of History Emeritus John M Murrin,Paul E. Johnson,George Henry Davis `86 Professor of American History James M McPherson,James M. McPherson,Gary Gerstle,Emily S. Rosenberg

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Liberty, Equality, and Power

A History of the American People to 1877

This is Volume I: To 1877 of LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER, Fourth Edition. LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER offers students a clear understanding of how America transformed itself, in a relatively short time, from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on earth. The authors promote this understanding by telling the story of America through the lens of three major themes: liberty, equality, and power. This approach helps students understand not only the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, but also how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power. This Fourth Edition retains the narrative clarity, unparalleled coverage, and thematic unity that are the hallmarks of LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER. It updates the text's proven ability to cover social and cultural history with such timely topics as globalization, the impact of science and technology, evolving roles for religion, and expands upon the text's extensively multicultural coverage. Backed by an ancillary package unmatched in this market, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER makes its thorough, memorable coverage equally accessible to students and instructors. It's available in the following volume splits: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Fourth Edition (Chapters 1-31) ISBN: 0534627307 LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Volume I: To 1877, Fourth Edition (Chapters 1-17) ISBN: 0534627315 LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Volume II: Since 1863, Fourth Edition (Chapters 17-31) ISBN: 0534627323.

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0495091774

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Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Volume II: Since 1863, Compact

By: John Murrin,Paul Johnson,James McPherson,Alice Fahs,Gary Gerstle

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Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Volume II: Since 1863, Compact

By: John Murrin,Paul Johnson,James McPherson,Alice Fahs,Gary Gerstle

You spoke and Wadsworth, a part of Cengage Learning listened. This Compact Version is part of the Cengage Advantage Books, which offers our Comprehensive texts in a lower-cost format. This black and white version of LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER includes eight 4-page color map inserts to bring the regions to life. While the compact version includes fewer photos than the Comprehensive version, it offers plenty of resources to make the course visual and exciting for students. In addition, students will have access to the Book Companion Website that offers quizzing, interactive maps, interactive timelines, and simulations. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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0495411035

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Liberty,Equality,Power

A History of the American People

By: John Murrin,James M. McPherson,Paul Johnson,George Henry Davis `86 Professor of American History James M McPherson,Professor Gary Gerstle,Professor of History Emily S Rosenberg

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Liberty,Equality,Power

A History of the American People

By: John Murrin,James M. McPherson,Paul Johnson,George Henry Davis `86 Professor of American History James M McPherson,Professor Gary Gerstle,Professor of History Emily S Rosenberg

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, CONCISE EDITION provides students with a clear understanding of how power is gained, lost, and used in both public and private life. This concise version retains the clarity, coverage, and thematic unity of the larger text, while offering unmatched integration of social and cultural history into a political story. It retains the strong chronological and thematic framework of the bigger text, but offers a more manageable option for instructors concerned about too much material and too little time.

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Book's by Professor Gary Gerstle

Inventing the "American Way" : The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement

Inventing the "American Way" : The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement

America's Three Regimes : A New Political History

America's Three Regimes : A New Political History

After Progress : American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century

After Progress : American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century

Divergent Paths : How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth

Divergent Paths : How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth

Arbitrating Empire

Arbitrating Empire

Nation State and Immigration

Nation State and Immigration

Americans in a World at War

Americans in a World at War

Canada First, Not Canada Alone

Canada First, Not Canada Alone

Since 1865

Since 1865

Liberty, Equality, and Power

Liberty, Equality, and Power

Liberty, Equality, and Power

Liberty, Equality, and Power

Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Volume II: Since 1863, Compact

Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Volume II: Since 1863, Compact

Liberty,Equality,Power

Liberty,Equality,Power

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