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The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914 (Paperback, New edition)
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The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914 (Paperback, New edition)
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Tracing the transformation of liberal political ideology from the
end of the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Nancy Cohen
offers a new interpretation of the origins and character of modern
liberalism. She argues that the values and programs associated with
modern liberalism were formulated not during the Progressive Era,
as most accounts maintain, but earlier, in the very different
social context of the Gilded Age. Integrating intellectual, social,
cultural, and economic history, Cohen argues that the
reconstruction of liberalism hinged on the reaction of postbellum
liberals to social and labor unrest. As new social movements of
workers and farmers arose and phrased their protests in the
rhetoric of democratic producerism, liberals retreated from earlier
commitments to an expansive vision of democracy. Redefining liberal
ideas about citizenship and the state, says Cohen, they played a
critical role in legitimating emergent corporate capitalism and
politically insulating it from democratic challenge. As the social
cost of economic globalization comes under international critical
scrutiny, this book revisits the bitter struggles over the
relationship between capitalism and democracy in post-Civil War
America. The resolution of this problem offered by the new
liberalism deeply influenced the progressives and has left an
enduring legacy for twentieth-century American politics, Cohen
argues.
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