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Author Gerstle, Gary, 1954-

Title Liberty and coercion [electronic resource] : the paradox of American government from the founding to the present / Gary Gerstle.

Imprint Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2015.

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Description xv, 452 p. : 25 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note Published by Princeton University Press.
Second printing, and first paperback printing, 2018.
This book has been composed in Sabon LT Std and Univers Lt Std.
Printed on acid-free paper.
Printed in the United States of America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foundations, 1780s-1860s -- Improvisations, 1860s-1920s -- Compromises, 1920s-1940s -- American Leviathan, 1940s-2010s.
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.
Credits Cover art: Flattened US flags. © Bruce Peterson / Offset.com
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Subject 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.
Political Science.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 9780691178219
9780691162942 hardcover : alk. paper
9781400888436
Standard No. 2027/heb34123 hdl

 
    
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