Description: Tracing the transformation of liberal political ideology from the end of the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Nancy Cohen offers a new interpretation of the origins and character of modern liberalism. She argues that the values and programs associated with modern liberalism were formulated not during the Progressive Era, as most accounts maintain, but earlier, in the very different social context of the Gilded Age.Integrating intellectual, social, cultural, and economic history, Cohen argues that the reconstruction of liberalism hinged on the reaction of postbellum liberals to social and labor unrest. As new social movements of workers and farmers arose and phrased their protests in the rhetoric of democratic producerism, liberals retreated from earlier commitments to an expansive vision of democracy. Redefining liberal ideas about citizenship and the state, says Cohen, they played a critical role in legitimating emergent corporate capitalism and politically insulating it from democratic challenge.As the social cost of economic globalization comes under international critical scrutiny, this book revisits the bitter struggles over the relationship between capitalism and democracy in post-Civil War America. The resolution of this problem offered by the new liberalism deeply influenced the progressives and has left an enduring legacy for twentieth-century American politics, Cohen argues.Shipped by USPS Media Mail.
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Pages: 332
Publication Date: 2002-03-11
Book Title: Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914
Number of Pages: 332 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2002
Topic: United States / 19th Century, History & Theory, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, United States / General
Illustrator: Yes
Features: New Edition
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Author: Nancy Cohen
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
