Print version: Shaped by the state : toward a new political history of the twentieth century. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019 viii, 396 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9780226596297
Papers based on presentations at the conference "Seeing beyond the Partisan Divide", held at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia in the fall of 2015
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Beyond red and blue: crisis and continuity in twentieth-century U.S. political history / Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams -- Building Leviathan. Social insecurities: private data and public culture in modern America / Sarah E. Igo -- The strange career of American liberalism / N. D. B. Connolly -- "Really and truly a partnership": the New Deal’s associational state and the making of postwar American politics / Brent Cebul and Mason B. Williams -- State building for a free market: the Great Depression and the rise of monetary orthodoxy / David M. P. Freund -- La revolucion institucional: the rise and fall of the Mexican New Deal in the U.S.South, 1920-1990 / Julie M. Weise -- Crisis and continuity. The short end of both sticks: property assessments and black taxpayer disadvantage in urban America / Andrew W. Kahrl -- Clearing the air and counting costs: Shimp v. New Jersey Bell and the tragedy of workplace smoking / Sarah E. Milov -- Glocal America: the politics of scale in the 1970s / Suleiman Osman -- The government alone cannot do the total job: the possibilities and perils of religious organizations in public-private refugee care / Melissa May Borja -- A carceral empire: placing the political history of U.S. prisons and policing in the world / Stuart Schrader -- Fears of a nanny state: centering gender and family in the political history of regulation / Rachel Louise Moran -- Conclusions. The history of neoliberalism / Kim Phillips-Fein -- Propositions for the new political history / Matthew D. Lassiter.