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After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted
comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and
constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked
social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater
equality as the glue that held nations together. Though the "two
Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects,
they share a common history of social rights, democratic
participation, and welfare capitalism. But in a new age of global
inequality, welfare-state retrenchment, and economic austerity, can
capitalism and democracy still coexist? In this book, leading
historians and social scientists rethink the history of social
democracy and the welfare state in the United States and Europe in
light of the global transformations of the economic order.
Separately and together, they ask how changes in the distribution
of wealth reshape the meaning of citizenship in a
post-welfare-state era. They explore how the harsh effects of
austerity and inequality influence democratic participation. In
individual essays as well as interviews with Ira Katznelson and
Frances Fox Piven, contributors from both sides of the Atlantic
explore the fortunes of the welfare state. They discuss distinct
national and international settings, speaking to both local
particularities and transnational and transatlantic exchanges.
Covering a range of topics-the lives of migrant workers, gender and
the family in the design of welfare policies, the fate of the
European Union, and the prospects of social movements-Democracy and
the Welfare State is essential reading on what remains of
twentieth-century social democracy amid the onslaught of
neoliberalism and right-wing populism and where this legacy may yet
lead us.
The notion of an American Century has fallen out of favor in recent
years historians prefer to focus on the United States as part of a
transatlantic community. The contributors to this volume edited by
R. Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna seek to understand how the
exercise of American power was in crucial ways shaped and limited
by the historic ties of the United States to Europe. They evaluate
the impact of the "American Century" (as publisher Henry R. Luce
named it in 1941) from Woodrow Wilson's dream of a new world order,
to Cold War economic policies, to more recent American cultural
imperialism and its immediate descendent, American-led
globalization.The American Century in Europe gathers an
international group of scholars who explore the ways
twentieth-century American power (diplomatic, cultural, and
economic) has been felt across the Atlantic. The authors
demonstrate that the American Century was marked less by American
hegemony than by reciprocal influence between the United States and
Europe. The scale of American wealth certainly guaranteed influence
abroad, but as the essays demonstrate, the American thirst for
trade just as surely opened America's borders to cultures from
around the world."
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