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Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 363 pp. - Grace Palladino, Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840–1868. U...
International Labor and Working-class History, 1992
Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy. By Laura Jensen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 244. 60.00,cloth;60.00, cloth; 60.00,cloth;20.00, paper
The Journal of Economic History, Dec 1, 2003
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Apr 12, 2004
Bensel, Richard Franklin, 1949-The American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century / Richard Fr... more Bensel, Richard Franklin, 1949-The American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century / Richard Franklin Bensel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-521-83101-6 -isbn 0-521-53786-x (pbk.) 1. Voting -United States -History -19th century. 2. Elections -United States -History -19th century. 3. United States -Politics and government -19th century. I. Title. jk1967.b46 2004 324.973 07 -dc22 2003066277 isbn 0 521 83101 6 hardback isbn 0 521 53786 x paperback Contents Preface page vii Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Structure and Practice of Elections Chapter 3 Social Construction of Identity in Eastern Rural Communities Chapter 4 Ethno-Cultural Stereotypes and Voting in Large Cities Chapter 5 Frontier Democracy Chapter 6 Loyalty Oaths, Troops, and Elections during the Civil War Chapter 7 Conclusion Index v
Legislation, the Republican party, and finance capital during Reconstruction
Ethno-Cultural Stereotypes and Voting in Large Cities
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Apr 12, 2004
Gold, greenbacks, and the political economy of finance capital after the Civil War
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 25, 1991
Law and History Review, 2005
Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
Journal of Southern History, Aug 1, 1992
Richard Franklin Bensel's book is purportedly a history of the "Origins of Central Stat... more Richard Franklin Bensel's book is purportedly a history of the "Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877," but in fact it is something different. It is a contribution to scholarship written preponderantly by and for economists about the economy of the era. It is a major ...
The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States. Edited by Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner. Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 440. $49.95
The Journal of Economic History, Mar 1, 1995
Journal of Southern History, May 1, 1986
The political economy of secession and civil war
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 25, 1991
The American man-of-war is a noble spectacle. I have seen it enter an ancient port in the Mediter... more The American man-of-war is a noble spectacle. I have seen it enter an ancient port in the Mediterranean. All the world wondered at it, and talked of it. Salvos of artillery, from forts and shipping in the harbor, saluted its flag. Princes and princesses and merchants paid it homage, and all the people blessed it as a harbinger of hope for their own ultimate freedom. I imagine now the same noble vessel again entering the same haven. The flag of thirty-three stars and thirteen stripes has been hauled down, and in its place a signal is run up, which flaunts the device of a lone star or a palmetto tree. Men ask, “Who is the stranger that thus steals into our waters?” The answer contemptuously given is, “she comes from one of the obscure republics of North America. Let her pass on.” – Senator William H. Seward in the United States Senate, January 12, 1861 Any study of the origins of the American state must address two questions posed by the Civil War: Why did the South secede from the Union? and why did the North resist secession? Both questions, from a political-economy perspective, involve the relationship of the two regions to the American state. For the South, the American nation in 1860 was a confederation of sovereign states.
Politics Is Thicker Than Blood
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 13, 2003
Prospects for a Gold Bolt
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Dec 22, 2009
The Founding of Modern States
The Founding of Modern States is a bold comparative work that examines the rise of the modern sta... more The Founding of Modern States is a bold comparative work that examines the rise of the modern state through six case studies of state formation. The book opens with an analysis of three foundings that gave rise to democratic states in Britain, the United States, and France and concludes with an evaluation of three formations that birthed non-democratic states in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Through a comparative analysis of these governments, the book argues that new state formations are defined by a metaphysical conception of a “will of the people” through which the new state is ritually granted sovereignty. The book stresses the paradoxical nature of modern foundings, characterized by “mythological imaginations,” or the symbolic acts and rituals upon which a state is enabled to secure political and social order. An extensive study of some of the most important events in modern history, this book offers readers novel interpretations that will disrupt common narratives about modern states and the state of our modern world.
The American Ballot Box is the latest of a series of important books by Richard Bensel, one of th... more The American Ballot Box is the latest of a series of important books by Richard Bensel, one of the leading practitioners of 'American Political Development' (APD), a subfield within the discipline of political science in the United States. Two other leading APD scholars, Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek, recently published what amounts to a manifesto in which they defined their subfield as the search for 'connections between politics in the past and politics in the present'. It aspires, Orren and Skowronek argued, to build 'theories of politics that are more attentive than others available to specifically historical processes of change and the political issues that those processes pose' (1). Although within the politics of American political science, APD scholars are methodologically allied to comparativists, the subfield is concerned, as its name implies, only with the past politics of the United States. When they speak and write about their methodology, APD scholars have two negative reference groups in mind. The first are their rational-choice theorist departmental colleagues to whom they feel the need to defend the entire project of historicizing past politics. The second group are historians, who, in the imagination of political scientists, are generally theoretically impoverished and narrow in focus. Political historians in history departments, for most of whom the 'search for patterns'-that is, the identification of what is distinctive and what common about historical phenomena, and the effort to classify and identify linkages and processes of change-is the basic aim of their research, may well raise a quizzical eyebrow at such claims. Notwithstanding the slightly paranoid tendency-elaborated most fully by Orren and Skowrenk-to provide an intellectual 'creation myth' for APD which largely ignores the contribution that historians have made to the study of past politics, political scientists like Bensel have in fact made a substantial contribution to the revival of political history in the last fifteen years or so.
The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s
Contemporary Sociology, May 1, 1993
... States as a developing country The principle of periodization itself offers a common standard... more ... States as a developing country The principle of periodization itself offers a common standard satis ... in the physical sciences, so periodization may be to their meaning and designation in history. ... such as the Age of Jackson, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, Prosperity Decade ...
Journal of Southern History, Feb 1, 1996
Modernization, southern separatism, and state formation in American political development
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 25, 1991
State structure and Reconstruction: The political legacy of the Civil War
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 25, 1991
Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 363 pp. - Grace Palladino, Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840–1868. U...
International Labor and Working-class History, 1992
Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy. By Laura Jensen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 244. 60.00,cloth;60.00, cloth; 60.00,cloth;20.00, paper
The Journal of Economic History, Dec 1, 2003
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Apr 12, 2004
Bensel, Richard Franklin, 1949-The American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century / Richard Fr... more Bensel, Richard Franklin, 1949-The American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century / Richard Franklin Bensel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-521-83101-6 -isbn 0-521-53786-x (pbk.) 1. Voting -United States -History -19th century. 2. Elections -United States -History -19th century. 3. United States -Politics and government -19th century. I. Title. jk1967.b46 2004 324.973 07 -dc22 2003066277 isbn 0 521 83101 6 hardback isbn 0 521 53786 x paperback Contents Preface page vii Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Structure and Practice of Elections Chapter 3 Social Construction of Identity in Eastern Rural Communities Chapter 4 Ethno-Cultural Stereotypes and Voting in Large Cities Chapter 5 Frontier Democracy Chapter 6 Loyalty Oaths, Troops, and Elections during the Civil War Chapter 7 Conclusion Index v
Legislation, the Republican party, and finance capital during Reconstruction
Ethno-Cultural Stereotypes and Voting in Large Cities
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Apr 12, 2004
Gold, greenbacks, and the political economy of finance capital after the Civil War
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 25, 1991
Law and History Review, 2005
Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
Journal of Southern History, Aug 1, 1992
Richard Franklin Bensel's book is purportedly a history of the "Origins of Central Stat... more Richard Franklin Bensel's book is purportedly a history of the "Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877," but in fact it is something different. It is a contribution to scholarship written preponderantly by and for economists about the economy of the era. It is a major ...
The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States. Edited by Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner. Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 440. $49.95
The Journal of Economic History, Mar 1, 1995
Journal of Southern History, May 1, 1986
The political economy of secession and civil war
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 25, 1991
The American man-of-war is a noble spectacle. I have seen it enter an ancient port in the Mediter... more The American man-of-war is a noble spectacle. I have seen it enter an ancient port in the Mediterranean. All the world wondered at it, and talked of it. Salvos of artillery, from forts and shipping in the harbor, saluted its flag. Princes and princesses and merchants paid it homage, and all the people blessed it as a harbinger of hope for their own ultimate freedom. I imagine now the same noble vessel again entering the same haven. The flag of thirty-three stars and thirteen stripes has been hauled down, and in its place a signal is run up, which flaunts the device of a lone star or a palmetto tree. Men ask, “Who is the stranger that thus steals into our waters?” The answer contemptuously given is, “she comes from one of the obscure republics of North America. Let her pass on.” – Senator William H. Seward in the United States Senate, January 12, 1861 Any study of the origins of the American state must address two questions posed by the Civil War: Why did the South secede from the Union? and why did the North resist secession? Both questions, from a political-economy perspective, involve the relationship of the two regions to the American state. For the South, the American nation in 1860 was a confederation of sovereign states.
Politics Is Thicker Than Blood
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 13, 2003
Prospects for a Gold Bolt
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Dec 22, 2009
The Founding of Modern States
The Founding of Modern States is a bold comparative work that examines the rise of the modern sta... more The Founding of Modern States is a bold comparative work that examines the rise of the modern state through six case studies of state formation. The book opens with an analysis of three foundings that gave rise to democratic states in Britain, the United States, and France and concludes with an evaluation of three formations that birthed non-democratic states in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Through a comparative analysis of these governments, the book argues that new state formations are defined by a metaphysical conception of a “will of the people” through which the new state is ritually granted sovereignty. The book stresses the paradoxical nature of modern foundings, characterized by “mythological imaginations,” or the symbolic acts and rituals upon which a state is enabled to secure political and social order. An extensive study of some of the most important events in modern history, this book offers readers novel interpretations that will disrupt common narratives about modern states and the state of our modern world.
The American Ballot Box is the latest of a series of important books by Richard Bensel, one of th... more The American Ballot Box is the latest of a series of important books by Richard Bensel, one of the leading practitioners of 'American Political Development' (APD), a subfield within the discipline of political science in the United States. Two other leading APD scholars, Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek, recently published what amounts to a manifesto in which they defined their subfield as the search for 'connections between politics in the past and politics in the present'. It aspires, Orren and Skowronek argued, to build 'theories of politics that are more attentive than others available to specifically historical processes of change and the political issues that those processes pose' (1). Although within the politics of American political science, APD scholars are methodologically allied to comparativists, the subfield is concerned, as its name implies, only with the past politics of the United States. When they speak and write about their methodology, APD scholars have two negative reference groups in mind. The first are their rational-choice theorist departmental colleagues to whom they feel the need to defend the entire project of historicizing past politics. The second group are historians, who, in the imagination of political scientists, are generally theoretically impoverished and narrow in focus. Political historians in history departments, for most of whom the 'search for patterns'-that is, the identification of what is distinctive and what common about historical phenomena, and the effort to classify and identify linkages and processes of change-is the basic aim of their research, may well raise a quizzical eyebrow at such claims. Notwithstanding the slightly paranoid tendency-elaborated most fully by Orren and Skowrenk-to provide an intellectual 'creation myth' for APD which largely ignores the contribution that historians have made to the study of past politics, political scientists like Bensel have in fact made a substantial contribution to the revival of political history in the last fifteen years or so.
The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s
Contemporary Sociology, May 1, 1993
... States as a developing country The principle of periodization itself offers a common standard... more ... States as a developing country The principle of periodization itself offers a common standard satis ... in the physical sciences, so periodization may be to their meaning and designation in history. ... such as the Age of Jackson, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, Prosperity Decade ...
Journal of Southern History, Feb 1, 1996
Modernization, southern separatism, and state formation in American political development
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 25, 1991
State structure and Reconstruction: The political legacy of the Civil War
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 25, 1991