Cohen argues that the values and programs characteristic of modern American liberalism were invented not during the Progressive Era, as is generally assumed, but in the ...

In the troubled days before the American Civil War, both Northern protectionists and Southern free trade economists saw political economy as the key to understanding the ...

Analyzes recent developments in liberal philosophy, argues that liberalism can no longer meet the needs of American society, and suggests a new public philosophy of civic ...

The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration ...

This book examines the ideology of elite lawyers and judges from the Gilded Age through the New Deal. Between 1866 and 1937, a coherent outlook shaped the way the American bar ...

The book describes the ways in which American thinkers and artists in the first two decades of the twentieth century challenged notions that a single principle explained all ...

This award-winning book of the Frederick Jackson Turner Studies describes the early development of social science professions in the United States. Furner traces the academic ...

How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politics Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between ...