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Boundaries of the State in US History
Engelsk Hardback
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The question of how the American state defines its power has become central to a range of historical topics, from the founding of the Republic and the role of the educational system to the functions of agencies and America's place in the world. Yet conventional histories of the state have not reckoned adequately with the roots of an ever-expanding governmental power, assuming instead that the American state was historically and exceptionally weak relative to its European peers. Here, James T. Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen W. Sawyer assemble definitional essays that search for explanations to account for the extraordinary growth of US power without resorting to exceptionalist narratives. Turning away from abstract, metaphysical questions about what the state is, or schematic models of how it must work, these essays focus instead on the more pragmatic, historical question of what it does. By historicizing the construction of the boundaries dividing America and the world, civil society and the state, they are able to explain the dynamism and flexibility of a government whose powers appear so natural as to be given, invisible, inevitable, and exceptional.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9780226277646
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022627764X
Udg. Dato:
7 sep 2015
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
160mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
7 sep 2015
Forfatter(e):
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