The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal: The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism

by Paul D. Moreno

Book Overview

This book tells the story of constitutional government in America during the period of the 'social question'. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, and before the 'second Reconstruction' and cultural revolution of the 1960s, Americans dealt with the challenges of the urban and industrial revolutions. In the crises of the American Revolution and the Civil War, the American founders - and then Lincoln and the Republicans - returned to a long tradition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107655013
• ISBN13: 9781107655010
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"