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Book SynopsisExplores how the changing positions of the United States in the world economy and in the international political order have shaped US political institutions and domestic politics. This book demonstrates the central role that efforts to contend with foreign military and economic competition played in forming the major institutions of US government.
Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003 "The contributions to this volume, all preeminent scholars of American politics or international relations, examine how exigencies from beyond US borders shaped American political development... The book is important and pathbreaking."--Choice
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Contributors xi PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 One: Rewriting the Epic of America by Ira Katznelson 3 Two: International Engagement and American Democracy: A Comparative Perspective by Aristide R. Zolberg 24 PART II: AMERICA IN THE ANTEBELLUM WORLD 55 Three: International Commitments and American Political Institutions in the Nineteenth Century by Robert O. Keohane 57 Four: Flexible Capacity: The Military and Early American Statebuilding by Ira Katznelson 82 PART III: WAR AND TRADE 111 Five: War, Trade, and U.S. Party Politics by Martin Shefter 113 Six: Patriotic Partnerships: Why Great Wars Nourished American Civic Voluntarism by Theda Skocpol, Ziad Munson, Andrew Karch, and Bayliss Camp 134 Seven: Trade and Representation: How Diminishing Geographic Concentration Augments Protectionist Pressures in the U.S. House of Representatives by Ronald Rogowski 181 Eight: International Forces and Domestic Politics: Trade Policy and Institution Building in the United States by Judith Goldstein 211 PART IV: AMERICA SINCE 1940 237 Nine: American Antistatism and the Founding of the Cold War State by Aaron L. Friedberg 239 Ten: Limited Wars and the Attenuation of the State: Soldiers, Money, and Political Communication in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam by Bartholomew H. Sparrow 267 Eleven: Reinventing the American State: Political Dynamics in the Post-Cold War Era by Peter A. Gourevitch 301 PART V: CONCLUSION 331 Twelve: International Influences on American Political Development by Martin Shefter 333 Index 359
