America’s political history is a fascinating paradox. The United
States was born with the admonition that government posed a threat
to liberty. This apprehension became the foundation of the
nation’s civic ideology and was embedded in its constitutional
structure. Yet the history of public life in the United States
records the emergence of an enormously powerful national state
during the nineteenth century. By 1920, the United States was
arguably the most powerful country in the world. In The Paradox of
Power Ballard C. Campbell traces this evolution and offers an
explanation for how it occurred. Campbell argues that the state in
America is rooted in the country’s colonial experience and
analyzes the evidence for this by reviewing governance at all
levels of the American polity—local, state, and
national—between 1754 and 1920. Campbell poses five critical
causal references: war, geography, economic development, culture
and identity (including citizenship and nationalism), and political
capacity. This last factor embraces law and constitutionalism,
administration, and political parties. The Paradox of Power makes a
major contribution to our understanding of American statebuilding
by emphasizing the fundamental role of local and state governance
to successfully integrate urban, state, and national governments to
create a composite and comprehensive portrait of how governance
evolved in America.
General
| Imprint: |
University Press of Kansas
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2021 |
| Authors: |
Ballard C. Campbell
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
392 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7006-3256-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-7006-3256-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780700632565 |
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