Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America

William Chafe, Gary Gerstle, Linda Gordon, and Julian Zelizer, Editors

This wide-ranging series in twentieth-century U.S. political history presents not only works that represent the best of traditional political history but also those that integrate insights and methodologies of social and cultural history, challenge conventional periodizations, and situate the American political experience in a comparative framework.

These interpretative works focus on issues that recently have begun to alter our understanding of the twentieth century: gender and the state; labor, business, and the New Deal; race and social policy; the construction of nationhood and nationalism; the Cold War and American culture; deindustrialization and urban politics; the rise and fall of the administrative state; the changing character of American liberalism; and the history of conservative thought and conservative social movements.

The series, which includes both established and younger scholars, features exceptional works on the presidents, political institutions, reform movements, and other traditional topics in political history. It seeks to bring some coherence to the rich monographic literature that has appeared in recent years, and thereby give the remarkable American Century the history it deserves.

Go to Listing by Author

• American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. R.O. Self.
• Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War. C.J. Bon Tempo.
• Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution. A. Dawley.
• Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley. M. O'Mara.
• Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties. L. McEnaney.
• Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. M.L. Dudziak.
• Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America. C. Gordon.
• Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court-Martial. E.L. Hillman.
• Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality. B. Nelson.
• For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State. J. Klein.
• Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. M.M. Ngai.
• In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution. J. Crespino.
• Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America. Z. Vargas.
• Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School. K. Anderson.
• More Equal Than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century. G. Hodgson.
• Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's. G. Troy.
• The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America. D.S. Cobble.
• Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade. D.T. Critchlow.
• Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. M. Jacobs.
• Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History. A. O'Connor.
• The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. R.D. Johnston.
• School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program. S. Levine.
• The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles. S. Kurashige.
• The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. M.D. Lassiter.
• State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. N. Lichtenstein.
• The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. M. Canaday.
• Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. L. McGirr.
• Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam. D. Farber.
• Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century. C.L. Greenberg.
• Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy. S. Hamilton.
• White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. K.M. Kruse.

Return to Series Menu

File created: 11/5/2009

Questions and comments to: webmaster@press.princeton.edu
Princeton University Press