Affairs of State : : Public Life in Late Nineteenth-Century America /

Affairs of State : : Public Life in Late Nineteenth-Century America / / Morton Keller.

This first modern history of American public life after the Civil War is a work of magisterial sweep and sophisticated insight. It will be the standard work on the era for many years to come. Integrating political, legal, and administrative history on a scale not previously attempted, Morton Keller...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package
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Keller, Morton,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1977
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (631 p.) :; 7 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • CHAPTER 1. The Weight of the War
  • PART ONE. The Postwar Polity 1865-1880
  • CHAPTER 2. The Politics of Reconstruction
  • CHAPTER 3. Postwar Governance
  • CHAPTER 4. The Quest for a Good Society
  • CHAPTER 5. The Political Economy of Postwar America
  • CHAPTER 6. The Southern Experience
  • CHAPTER 7. The Triumph of Organizational Politics
  • PART TWO. The Industrial Polity 1880–1900
  • CHAPTER 8. Governance in an Industrial Age
  • CHAPTER 9. The Province of the Law
  • CHAPTER 10. The Political Economy of Industrialism
  • CHAPTER 11. The Structure of Economic Regulation
  • CHAPTER 12. The Shock of Social Change: The Definition of Status
  • CHAPTER 13. The Shock of Social Change: The Control of Behavior
  • CHAPTER 14. The Politics of an Industrial Society
  • CHAPTER 15. The Crisis of the Nineties
  • CHAPTER 16. The Twentieth Century Polity
  • ABBREVIATIONS, INDEX
  • Abbreviations
  • Index

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