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    <title>The Great Energy Transition: America from 1876 to 1929 | Books Gateway | MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-16T13:16:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How new forms of energy transformed every aspect of American life in a span of 50 years, from 1876 to 1929—and how it seeded our current polarization.

"The era of reform. The Gilded Age. The Progressive Era. What historians often divide into discrete eras was one period of profound change: a massive, multipronged energy transition. Oil, gas, and electricity were woven into a culture that had to heal sectional differences after the Civil War, absorb an enormous influx of immigrants, shift from a rural to an urban society, and adopt a scientific understanding of nature.
"Every job, business, house, and street underwent a transformation so rapid and radical that Americans simply could not grasp the larger pattern. The concepts of “technology” and an “energy transition” had yet to emerge, and observers struggled to understand their experiences using inadequate terms such as “kaleidoscopic change,” “applied science,” and “the machine age.” In The Great Energy Transition, David Nye documents this transformation—and explains our failure to see it for what it was.
"In this disorienting transformation, Nye locates the roots of today’s cultural polarization. The great energy transition accelerated demographic and economic trends, including higher wages, increasing longevity, the commodification of experience, engineering nature, corporatism, urbanization, resistance to science, and racial segregation. At the same time, the book points to the innovations and institutions that held the country together, from national parks and monuments to mass consumption and newly invented media events."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This article evaluates the high-profile claim that enslaved African-Americans produced over 50 percent of US national product in the pre-Civil War period. The accounting exercise shows the fraction was closer to (and indeed likely slightly below) the share of the population, that is, about 12.6 percent in 1860. The enslaved population had higher rates of labor force participation, but they were also forced to work in sectors–agriculture and domestic service—with below average output per worker. The economic surplus generated by the enslaved was due chiefly to the low value of the very basic consumption bundle provided rather than to exceptionally high values of production per capita."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- The book sounds great, the analysis of the contemporary situation, not so much.  (To be fair, it's from early 2017.  To continue to be fair, wow did this mis-judge how things would go.)]]></description>
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    <title>The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930, Womack</title>
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"The Matter of Black Living excavates the dynamic interplay between racial data and Black aesthetic production that shaped late nineteenth-century social, cultural, and literary atmosphere. Through assembling previously overlooked archives and seemingly familiar texts, Womack shows how these artists and writers recalibrated the relationship between data and Black life. The result is a fresh and nuanced take on the history of documenting Blackness. The Matter of Black Living charts a new genealogy from which we can rethink the political and aesthetic work of racial data, a task that has never been more urgent."

--- How was Du Bois not 100% disciplinary sociology & political economy?!?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20200513">
    <title>Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin - American Economic Association</title>
    <dc:date>2021-08-30T15:11:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20200513</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I study the political impact of the first populist radio personality in American history. Father Charles Coughlin blended populist demagoguery, anti-Semitism, and fascist sympathies to create a hugely popular radio program that attracted 30 million weekly listeners in the 1930s. I find that exposure to Father Coughlin's anti-Roosevelt broadcast reduced Franklin D. Roosevelt's vote share in the 1936 presidential election. Coughlin's effects were larger among Catholics and persisted after Coughlin left the air. Moreover, places more exposed to Coughlin's broadcast were more likely to form a local branch of the pro-Nazi German-American Bund and sold fewer war bonds during World War II."

--- I'll be interested to see how it gets around the obvious selection issue, that places where lots of people chose to listen to Coughlin, and/or places where broadcasters chose to re-broadcast him, were apt to be reactionary people and places anyway.  (Also, why on Earth is this in AER, rather than _American Historical Review_ or the like? [That's a rhetorical question, I know why...])]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6036&amp;context=journal_articles">
    <title>Rethinking the Interest-Convergence Thesis</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-31T14:42:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6036&amp;context=journal_articles</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I think the next-to-last section, critiquing proponents for conspiratorialism, may be unfair; those might merely be functional explanations (completely unsupported by mechanisms or evidence).  Admittedly the border between functionalism and conspiracy theorizing is fuzzy.
--- The "interest convergence" idea would seem to be much more directly applicable to democratic politics than to law.  Imagine a country with a one-person, one-vote majoritarian democracy.  (I know, we should be so lucky.)  Now imagine a minority group which is, say, 13% of the population, and has distinctive interests (for whatever reason).  Even if that group votes as a completely unified block, to get to 50%+1, they will need to enlist another 50-13=37% of the voters, which means they will be outnumbered nearly 3 to 1 (37/13=2.8) in their own coalition.  (They might of course still exercise hegemony within it.)  Moreover, they will need to enlist 42% (=37/83) of those who are _not_ part of their minority; not an absolute majority, but still a very large fraction.  This will, I contend, obviously be easier if the leaders of the minority can present their proposals as also advancing wide-spread (if not universal) interests of the non-minority.  (Of course for these purposes "not having stuff burned down" counts as an interest.)  If political institutions are not one-person, one-vote and/or countermajoritarian, and the minority is on the wrong side of those imbalances, the math will only get worse.]]></description>
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    <title>Cotton, slavery, and the new history of capitalism - ScienceDirect</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-28T02:40:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014498317302292#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The “New History of Capitalism” grounds the rise of industrial capitalism on the production of raw cotton by American slaves. Recent works include Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton, Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams, and Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told. All three authors mishandle historical evidence and mis-characterize important events in ways that affect their major interpretations on the nature of slavery, the workings of plantations, the importance of cotton and slavery in the broader economy, and the sources of the Industrial Revolution and world development."]]></description>
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    <title>‘Bad History and Worse Social Science Have Replaced Truth’</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-22T18:19:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chronicle.com/article/bad-history-and-worse-social-science-have-replaced-truth</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Inexplicably no link to the essay (though it's behind a paywall): [https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-scandal-of-thirteentherism/]
Prof. Scott's self-presentation in outline: [https://darylmichaelscott.com/current-project/]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/abusing-religion/9781978807785">
    <title>Abusing Religion | Rutgers University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-11T18:09:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/abusing-religion/9781978807785</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Why, in a country that consistently fails to acknowledge—much less address—the sexual abuse of women and children, do American religious outsiders so often face allegations of sexual misconduct?  Why does the American public presume to know “what’s really going on” in minority religious communities?  Why are sex abuse allegations such an effective way to discredit people on America’s religious margins? What makes Americans so willing, so eager to identify religion as the cause of sex abuse? Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one."

--- I come back, again, to my idea, ripped off from Norman Cohn, about the [Mother of All Conspiracy Theories](http://bactra.org/notebooks/conspiracy-theories.html), which, as Cohn documents, is actually older than the European witch-craze, and even older than Christianity or anti-Semitism.  Now _why_ people keep coming back to this idea is a good question, but they demonstrably _do_, and not just in America...]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/68128">
    <title>China and the History of U.S. Growth Models - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-25T21:12:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/68128</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>economic_history china:prc development_economics american_history have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo57273215">
    <title>Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics, Brown</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-09T18:59:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo57273215</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Intellectuals “have been both rallying points and railed against in American politics, vessels of hope and targets of scorn,” writes Michael J. Brown as he invigorates a recurrent debate in American life: Are intellectual public figures essential voices of knowledge and wisdom, or out-of-touch elites? Hope and Scorn investigates the role of high-profile experts and thinkers in American life and their ever-fluctuating relationship with the political and public spheres.
"From Eisenhower’s era to Obama’s, the intellectual’s role in modern democracy has been up for debate. What makes an intellectual, and who can claim that privileged title? What are intellectuals’ obligations to society, and how, if at all, are their contributions compatible with democracy? For some, intellectuals were models of civic engagement. For others, the rise of the intellectual signaled the fall of the citizen. Carrying us through six key moments in this debate, Brown expertly untangles the shifting anxieties and aspirations for democracy in America in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. Hope and Scorn begins with “egghead” politicians like Adlai Stevenson; profiles scholars like Richard Hofstadter and scholars-turned-politicians like H. Stuart Hughes; and ends with the rise of public intellectuals such as bell hooks and Cornel West. In clear and unburdened prose, Brown explicates issues of power, authority, political backlash, and more. Hope and Scorn is an essential guide to American concerns about intellectuals, their myriad shortcomings, and their formidable abilities."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091">
    <title>The Next Shift — Gabriel Winant | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-03-24T22:01:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy—particularly health care, which employs more Americans than any other industry. Gabriel Winant takes us inside the Rust Belt to show how America’s cities have weathered new economic realities. In Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods, he finds that a new working class has emerged in the wake of deindustrialization.
"As steelworkers and their families grew older, they required more health care. Even as the industrial economy contracted sharply, the care economy thrived. Hospitals and nursing homes went on hiring sprees. But many care jobs bear little resemblance to the manufacturing work the city lost. Unlike their blue-collar predecessors, home health aides and hospital staff work unpredictable hours for low pay. And the new working class disproportionately comprises women and people of color.
"Today health care workers are on the front lines of our most pressing crises, yet we have been slow to appreciate that they are the face of our twenty-first-century workforce. The Next Shift offers unique insights into how we got here and what could happen next. If health care employees, along with other essential workers, can translate the increasing recognition of their economic value into political power, they may become a major force in the twenty-first century."

--- JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1g4rv6k]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20191137">
    <title>Leadership in Social Movements: Evidence from the &quot;Forty-Eighters&quot; in the Civil War - American Economic Association</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-28T17:18:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20191137</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper studies the role of leaders in the social movement against slavery that culminated in the US Civil War. Our analysis is organized around a natural experiment: leaders of the failed German revolution of 1848–1849 were expelled to the United States and became antislavery campaigners who helped mobilize Union Army volunteers. Towns where Forty-Eighters settled show two-thirds higher Union Army enlistments. Their influence worked through local newspapers and social clubs. Going beyond enlistment decisions, Forty-Eighters reduced their companies' desertion rate during the war. In the long run, Forty-Eighter towns were more likely to form a local chapter of the NAACP."

--- Two things:
1. I'm curious about their identification strategy; surely the '48ers preferentially went to receptive places!
2. Since learning about this migration as a graduate student at Madison in the 1990s, I've long pondered the alternate history where Marx took this route, rather than scrounging a living in London off journalism and Engels.  I even once wrote a story where Dr. Marx ended up on the UW faculty and provoked a landmark academic freedom case.  (Mercifully, I lost that manuscript long ago.)]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674244238">
    <title>Markets, Minds, and Money — Miguel Urquiola | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-16T07:28:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674244238</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["American education has its share of problems, but it excels in at least one area: university-based research. That’s why American universities have produced more Nobel Prize winners than those of the next twenty-nine countries combined. Economist Miguel Urquiola argues that the principal source of this triumph is a free-market approach to higher education.
"Until the late nineteenth century, research at American universities was largely an afterthought, suffering for the same reason that it now prospers: the free market permits institutional self-rule. Most universities exploited that flexibility to provide what well-heeled families and church benefactors wanted. They taught denominationally appropriate materials and produced the next generation of regional elites, no matter the students’—or their instructors’—competence. These schools were nothing like the German universities that led the world in research and advanced training. The American system only began to shift when certain universities, free to change their business model, realized there was demand in the industrial economy for students who were taught by experts and sorted by talent rather than breeding. Cornell and Johns Hopkins led the way, followed by Harvard, Columbia, and a few dozen others that remain centers of research. By the 1920s the United States was well on its way to producing the best university research.
"Free markets are not the solution for all educational problems. Urquiola explains why they are less successful at the primary and secondary level, areas in which the United States often lags. But the entrepreneurial spirit has certainly been the key to American leadership in the research sector that is so crucial to economic success."

]]></description>
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    <title>This Land is My Land: Rebellion in the West - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-16T05:13:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197500699.001.0001</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This Land Is My Land traces three periods of conservative rebellion against federal land authority over the last forty years—the Sagebrush Rebellion (1979–1982), the War for the West (1991–2000), and the Patriot Rebellion (2009–2016)—showing how they evolved from a regional rebellion waged by westerners with material interests in federal lands to a national rebellion against the federal administrative state. It explains how Western federal land issues were integrated into national conservative politics, and how federal land issues became inseparably linked to a wide range of constitutional issues, such as freedom of religious expression, private property rights, and gun rights. As a result, federal land issues became flashpoints in conservative status politics and American civil religion, leading to armed standoffs between citizens and federal law enforcement officers in 2014, 2015, and 2016. These conflicts illustrate both the profound challenges in multiple-use management of federal land and the violent potential in American civil religion."]]></description>
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    <title>Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-16T05:04:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190913984.001.0001</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Starting in the late 1970s, a moral panic concerning child kidnapping and exploitation gripped the United States. For many Americans, a series of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children, publicized through an emergent twenty-four-hour news cycle, signaled a “national epidemic” of child abductions perpetrated by strangers. Some observers insisted that fifty thousand or more children fell victim to stranger kidnappings in any given year. (The actual figure was and remains about one hundred.) Stranger Danger demonstrates how racialized and sexualized fears of stranger abduction—stoked by the news media, politicians from across the partisan divide, bereaved parents, and the business sector—helped to underwrite broader transformations in US political culture and political economy. Specifically, the child kidnapping scare further legitimated a bipartisan investment in “family values” and “law and order,” thereby enabling the development and expansion of sex offender registries, AMBER Alerts, and other mechanisms designed to safeguard young Americans and their families from “stranger danger”—and to punish the strangers who supposedly threatened them."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/from-bondage-to-citizenship-a-comparison-of-african-american-and-indian-lowercaste-mobilization-in-two-regions-of-deep-inequality/DD6BD337E5DCF36CEDC9EB51854A8511">
    <title>From Bondage to Citizenship: A Comparison of African American and Indian Lower-Caste Mobilization in Two Regions of Deep Inequality | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-16T18:14:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/from-bondage-to-citizenship-a-comparison-of-african-american-and-indian-lowercaste-mobilization-in-two-regions-of-deep-inequality/DD6BD337E5DCF36CEDC9EB51854A8511</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The paper explores mobilization to reduce the deepest inequalities in the two largest democracies, those along caste lines in India and racial lines in the United States. I compare how the groups at the bottom of these ethnic hierarchies—India's former untouchable castes (Dalits) and African Americans—mobilized from the 1940s to the 1970s in pursuit of full citizenship: the franchise, representation, civil rights, and social rights. Experiences in two regions of historically high inequality (the Kaveri and Mississippi Deltas) are compared in their national contexts. Similarities in demographic patterns, group boundaries, socioeconomic relations, regimes, and enfranchisement timing facilitate comparison. Important differences in nationalist and civic discourse, official and popular social classification, and stratification patterns influenced the two groups’ mobilizations, enfranchisement, representation, alliances, and relationships with political parties. The nation was imagined to clearly include Dalits earlier in India than to encompass African Americans in the United States. Race was the primary and bipolar official and popular identity axis in the United States, unlike caste in India. African Americans responded by emphasizing racial discourses while Dalit mobilizations foregrounded more porously bordered community visions. These different circumstances enabled more widespread African American mobilization, but offered Dalits more favorable interethnic alliances, party incorporation, and policy accommodation, particularly in historically highly unequal regions. Therefore, group representation and policy benefits increased sooner and more in India than in the United States, especially in regions of historically high group inequality such as the Kaveri and other major river Deltas relative to the Deep South, including Mississippi."

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<item rdf:about="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987913">
    <title>Science under Fire — Andrew Jewett | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-04T21:49:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987913</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. This new history explains why so many have believed that science has the power to corrupt American culture.
"Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that “tenured radicals” have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. Some progressives, especially in the universities, worry that science’s celebration of objectivity and neutrality masks its attachment to Eurocentric and patriarchal values. As we grapple with the implications of climate change and revolutions in fields from biotechnology to robotics to computing, it is crucial to understand how scientific authority functions—and where it has run up against political and cultural barriers.
"Science under Fire reconstructs a century of battles over the cultural implications of science in the United States. Andrew Jewett reveals a persistent current of criticism which maintains that scientists have injected faulty social philosophies into the nation’s bloodstream under the cover of neutrality. This charge of corruption has taken many forms and appeared among critics with a wide range of social, political, and theological views, but common to all is the argument that an ideologically compromised science has produced an array of social ills. Jewett shows that this suspicion of science has been a major force in American politics and culture by tracking its development, varied expressions, and potent consequences since the 1920s.
"Looking at today’s battles over science, Jewett argues that citizens and leaders must steer a course between, on the one hand, the naïve image of science as a pristine, value-neutral form of knowledge, and, on the other, the assumption that scientists’ claims are merely ideologies masquerading as truths."]]></description>
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    <title>Race, Risk, and the Emergence of Federal Redlining | NBER</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-01T01:33:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nber.org/papers/w28146</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["During the late 1930s, the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) created a series of maps designed to summarize spatial variation in the riskiness of mortgage lending in different neighborhoods. The HOLC maps, in conjunction with contemporaneous maps produced by the Federal Housing Agency (FHA), are at the center of debates regarding the long-run impacts of government-imposed redlining, particularly because black households were concentrated in the highest risk zones on these maps. This concentration, combined with the fact that these formerly redlined neighborhoods largely remain economically distressed today, suggest racial bias in the construction of the maps has had important effects over the long run. Using newly digitized data for ten major northern cities, we assess the maps for the importance of this channel in explaining the prevalence of black residents in redlined neighborhoods. We find that racial bias in the construction of the HOLC maps can explain at most a small fraction of the observed concentration of black households in redlined zones. Instead, our results suggest that the majority of black households were redlined because decades of disadvantage and discrimination had already pushed them in to the core of economically distressed neighborhoods prior to the government’s direct involvement in mortgage markets. As a result, the HOLC maps are best viewed as providing clear evidence of how decades of unequal treatment effectively limited where black households lived in the 1930s rather than reflecting racial bias in the construction of the maps themselves. We argue that the systemized treatment of neighborhood risk vis-à-vis mortgage lending that was adopted by HOLC and the FHA may have played a central role in locking these patterns of inequality in place."]]></description>
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    <title>Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-25T06:02:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sn72</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In which we live up to our ideals because otherwise we handed ammunition to the Communists.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB downloaded books:noted history cold_war the_american_dilemma american_history 20th_century_history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67857">
    <title>Project MUSE - Science and Justice: The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials (1968)</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-22T21:55:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67857</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Far from being an isolated outburst of community insanity or hysteria, the Massachusetts witchcraft trials were an accurate reflection of the scientific ethos of the seventeenth century. Witches were seldom hanged without supporting medical evidence. Professor Fox clarifies this use of scientific knowledge by examining the Scientific Revolution's impact on the witchcraft trials. He suggests that much of the scientific ineptitude and lack of sophistication that characterized the witchcraft cases is still present in our modern system of justice. In the historical context of seventeenth-century witch hunts and in an effort to stimulate those who must design and operate a just jurisprudence today, Fox asks what the proper legal role of medical science—especially psychiatry—should be in any society. The legal system of seventeenth-century Massachusetts was weakened by an uncritical reliance on scientific judgments, and the scientific assumptions upon which the colonial conception of witchcraft was based reinforced these doubtful judgments. Fox explores these assumptions, discusses the actual participation of scientists in the investigations, and indicates the importance of scientific attitudes in the trials. Disease theory, psychopathology, and autopsy procedures, he finds, all had their place in the identification of witches. The book presents a unique multidisciplinary investigation into the place of science in the life of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century. There, as in twentieth-century America, citizens were confronted with the necessity of accommodating both the rules of law and the facts of science to their system of justice."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo3638962">
    <title>Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America, Kuznick</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-02T05:07:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo3638962</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The debate over scientists’ social responsibility is a topic of great controversy today. Peter J. Kuznick here traces the origin of that debate to the 1930s and places it in a context that forces a reevaluation of the relationship between science and politics in twentieth-century America. Kuznick reveals how an influential segment of the American scientific community during the Depression era underwent a profound transformation in its social values and political beliefs, replacing a once-pervasive conservatism and antipathy to political involvement with a new ethic of social reform."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo42738984">
    <title>The Culture of Feedback: Ecological Thinking in Seventies America, Belgrad</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-05T00:30:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo42738984</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When we want advice from others, we often casually speak of “getting some feedback.” But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to describe the dynamics of self-regulating systems, which correct their actions by feeding their effects back into themselves. By the early 1970s, feedback had become the governing trope for a counterculture that was reoriented and reinvigorated by ecological thinking.
"The Culture of Feedback digs deep into a dazzling variety of left-of-center experiences and attitudes from this misunderstood period, bringing us a new look at the wild side of the 1970s. Belgrad shows us how ideas from systems theory were taken up by the counterculture and the environmental movement, eventually influencing a wide range of beliefs and behaviors, particularly related to the question of what is and is not intelligence. He tells the story of a generation of Americans who were struck by a newfound interest in—and respect for—plants, animals, indigenous populations, and the very sounds around them, threading his tapestry with cogent insights on environmentalism, feminism, systems theory, and psychedelics. The Culture of Feedback repaints the familiar image of the ’70s as a time of Me Generation malaise to reveal an era of revolutionary and hopeful social currents, driven by desires to radically improve—and feed back into—the systems that had come before."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo38181724">
    <title>The Great Broadening: How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics, Jones, Theriault, Whyman</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-03T00:19:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo38181724</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society or state and local governments.
"With The Great Broadening, Bryan D. Jones, Sean M. Theriault, and Michelle Whyman examine in detail the causes, internal dynamics, and consequences of this extended burst of activity. They argue that the broadening of government responsibilities into new policy areas such as health care, civil rights, and gender issues and the increasing depth of existing government programs explain many of the changes in America politics since the 1970s. Increasing government attention to particular issues was motivated by activist groups. In turn, the beneficiaries of the government policies that resulted became supporters of the government’s activity, leading to the broad acceptance of its role. This broadening and deepening of government, however, produced a reaction as groups critical of its activities organized to resist and roll back its growth."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300767/syndicate-women">
    <title>Syndicate Women by Chris M. Smith - Paperback - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-07-24T14:18:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300767/syndicate-women</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In Syndicate Women, sociologist Chris M. Smith uncovers a unique historical puzzle: women composed a substantial part of Chicago organized crime in the early 1900s, but during Prohibition (1920–1933), when criminal opportunities increased and crime was most profitable, women were largely excluded. During the Prohibition era, the markets for organized crime became less territorial and less specialized, and criminal organizations were restructured to require relationships with crime bosses. These processes began with, and reproduced, gender inequality. The book places organized crime within a gender-based theoretical framework while assessing patterns of relationships that have implications for non-criminal and more general societal issues around gender. As a work of criminology that draws on both historical methods and contemporary social network analysis, Syndicate Women centers the women who have been erased from analyses of gender and crime and breathes new life into our understanding of the gender gap."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737587">
    <title>Assembling the Dinosaur — Lukas Rieppel | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-06T14:07:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737587</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in museums financed by North America’s wealthiest business tycoons.
"Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy, and creatures like Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular, American dinosaurs dominated the popular imagination, making front-page headlines and appearing in feature films.
"Assembling the Dinosaur follows dinosaur fossils from the field to the museum and into the commercial culture of North America’s Gilded Age. Business tycoons like Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan made common cause with vertebrate paleontologists to capitalize on the widespread appeal of dinosaurs, using them to project American exceptionalism back into prehistory. Learning from the show-stopping techniques of P. T. Barnum, museums exhibited dinosaurs to attract, entertain, and educate the public. By assembling the skeletons of dinosaurs into eye-catching displays, wealthy industrialists sought to cement their own reputations as generous benefactors of science, showing that modern capitalism could produce public goods in addition to profits. Behind the scenes, museums adopted corporate management practices to control the movement of dinosaur bones, restricting their circulation to influence their meaning and value in popular culture."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo18692187">
    <title>Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century, Rader, Cain</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-17T00:42:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo18692187</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions—and the institutions that housed them—between 1910 and 1990, ultimately offering new perspectives on the history of museums, science, and science education.
"Rader and Cain explain why science and natural history museums began to welcome new audiences between the 1900s and the 1920s and chronicle the turmoil that resulted from the introduction of new kinds of biological displays. They describe how these displays of life changed dramatically once again in the 1930s and 1940s, as museums negotiated changing, often conflicting interests of scientists, educators, and visitors. The authors then reveal how museum staffs, facing intense public and scientific scrutiny, experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education from the 1950s through the 1980s. The book concludes with a discussion of the influence that corporate sponsorship and blockbuster economics wielded over science and natural history museums in the century’s last decades.
"A vivid, entertaining study of the ways science and natural history museums shaped and were shaped by understandings of science and public education in the twentieth-century United States, Life on Display will appeal to historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture, as well as museum practitioners and general readers."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted museums history_of_science american_history 20th_century_history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo28959391">
    <title>Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America, Konda</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-04T14:04:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo28959391</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It’s tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion—and the delusional psychologies that fuel them—have been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as there’s been an America.
"In this sweeping book, Thomas Milan Konda traces the country’s obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the republic to our own anxious moment. Conspiracies of Conspiracies details centuries of sinister speculations—from antisemitism and anti-Catholicism to UFOs and reptilian humanoids—and their often incendiary outcomes. Rather than simply rehashing the surface eccentricities of such theories, Konda draws from his unprecedented assemblage of conspiratorial writing to crack open the mindsets that lead people toward these self-sealing worlds of denial. What is distinctively American about these theories, he argues, is not simply our country’s homegrown obsession with them but their ongoing prevalence and virulence. Konda proves that conspiracy theories are no harmless sideshow. They are instead the dark and secret heart of American political history—one that is poisoning the bloodstream of an increasingly sick body politic."

--- Not sure how much is new here.]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted psychoceramics history_of_ideas conspiracy_theories something_about_america american_history history books:owned in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo31043187">
    <title>The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco, Oda</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-08T21:18:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo31043187</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco’s identity as the “Gateway to the Pacific,” using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco’s postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city’s redeveloped Japanese-American enclave.
"Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco’s relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including changes in city leadership, new municipal institutions, and especially transformations in the built environment. Newly friendly relations between Japan and the United States also meant that Japanese Americans found fresh, if highly constrained, job and community prospects just as the city’s African Americans struggled against rising barriers. San Francisco’s story is an inherently local one, but it also a broader story of a city collectively, if not cooperatively, reimagining its place in a global economy."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted american_history san_francisco</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/postapocalyptic-fantasies-in-antebellum-american-literature/0EAC020362CB6D2A2C6F9C712361B5E7#fndtn-information">
    <title>Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature by John Hay</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-06T02:43:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/postapocalyptic-fantasies-in-antebellum-american-literature/0EAC020362CB6D2A2C6F9C712361B5E7#fndtn-information</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Even before the Civil War, American writers were imagining life after a massive global catastrophe. For many, the blank slate of the American continent was instead a wreckage-strewn wasteland, a new world in ruins. Bringing together epic and lyric poems, fictional tales, travel narratives, and scientific texts, Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature reveals that US authors who enthusiastically celebrated the myths of primeval wilderness and virgin land also frequently resorted to speculations about the annihilation of civilizations, past and future. By examining such postapocalyptic fantasies, this study recovers an antebellum rhetoric untethered to claims for historical exceptionalism - a patriotic rhetoric that celebrates America while denying the United States a unique position outside of world history. As the scientific field of natural history produced new theories regarding biological extinction, geological transformation, and environmental collapse, American writers responded with wild visions of the ancient past and the distant future."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted downloaded literary_history american_history post-apocalyptic science_fiction something_about_america</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/networks-and-time-seminar-materiality-ideology">
    <title>The Networks and Time Seminar - The Materiality of Ideology | Science and Society</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-23T01:42:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/networks-and-time-seminar-materiality-ideology</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Political identity in America dates to the turn of the 19th century, when divisions over finance and the ideal structure of governance led to bitter battles between the first political parties. Mark Hoffman use the reading patterns of America’s earliest political and economic elites, including a significant portion of the founding fathers, who checked out books from the New York Society Library, to reveal the shifting meaning of political identity in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the War of 1812. The reading data come from two charging ledgers spanning two periods –1789 to 1792 and 1799 to 1806 – during which a new country was built, relations with foreign nations defined, and contestation over the character of a new democracy was intense. Using novel combinations of text and network analysis, he explores the political nature of reading and the extent to which social, economic, and political positions overlapped with what people read. Mark Hoffman identifies the key intellectual and social dimensions on which New York, and by extension, American, elite society was politically stratified in its early years. In the process, he provides a framework for a material text analysis, one which embeds texts and ideas in the social processes that make them available to groups of people who exist in relation. This talk shows how this framework can help us understand the co-evolution and co-constitution of culture and social structure and the formation of identities over the long durée."]]></description>
<dc:subject>track_down_references american_history ideology network_data_analysis text_mining via:aeo</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.charlieseguin.com/dot_map.html">
    <title>The Lynching Dot Map: One dot for every lynching victim in the US 1883-1930</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-21T23:37:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.charlieseguin.com/dot_map.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I can't decide if using this to teach about spatial point processes be good, or grossly insensitive.]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_american_dilemma violence american_history something_about_america lynching visual_display_of_quantitative_information to_teach:data_over_space_and_time via:gabriel_rossman</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo13666193">
    <title>Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images, Dunaway</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-10T22:17:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo13666193</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["American environmentalism is defined by its icons: the “Crying Indian,” who shed a tear in response to litter and pollution; the cooling towers of Three Mile Island, site of a notorious nuclear accident; the sorrowful spectacle of oil-soaked wildlife following the ExxonValdez spill; and, more recently, Al Gore delivering his global warming slide show in An Inconvenient Truth. These images, and others like them, have helped make environmental consciousness central to American public culture. Yet most historical accounts ignore the crucial role images have played in the making of popular environmentalism, let alone the ways that they have obscured other environmental truths.
"Finis Dunaway closes that gap with Seeing Green. Considering a wide array of images—including pictures in popular magazines, television news, advertisements, cartoons, films, and political posters—he shows how popular environmentalism has been entwined with mass media spectacles of crisis. Beginning with radioactive fallout and pesticides during the 1960s and ending with global warming today, he focuses on key moments in which media images provoked environmental anxiety but also prescribed limited forms of action. Moreover, he shows how the media have blamed individual consumers for environmental degradation and thus deflected attention from corporate and government responsibility. Ultimately, Dunaway argues, iconic images have impeded efforts to realize—or even imagine—sustainable visions of the future."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted american_history environmentalism iconology art_history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979970">
    <title>The Republican Reversal — James Morton Turner, Andrew C. Isenberg | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-12T14:19:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979970</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Not long ago, Republicans could take pride in their party’s tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped to create the Environmental Protection Agency, extend the Clean Air Act, and protect endangered species. Today, as Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and seek to dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?
"In The Republican Reversal, James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg show that the party’s transformation began in the late 1970s, with the emergence of a new alliance of pro-business, libertarian, and anti-federalist voters. This coalition came about through a concerted effort by politicians and business leaders, abetted by intellectuals and policy experts, to link the commercial interests of big corporate donors with states’-rights activism and Main Street regulatory distrust. Fiscal conservatives embraced cost-benefit analysis to counter earlier models of environmental policy making, and business tycoons funded think tanks to denounce federal environmental regulation as economically harmful, constitutionally suspect, and unchristian, thereby appealing to evangelical views of man’s God-given dominion of the Earth.
"As Turner and Isenberg make clear, the conservative abdication of environmental concern stands out as one of the most profound turnabouts in modern American political history, critical to our understanding of the GOP’s modern success. The Republican reversal on the environment is emblematic of an unwavering faith in the market, skepticism of scientific and technocratic elites, and belief in American exceptionalism that have become the party’s distinguishing characteristics."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted us_politics american_history environmentalism running_dogs_of_reaction whats_gone_wrong_with_america</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300169492/gateway-arch">
    <title>Gateway Arch | Yale University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-08T18:57:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300169492/gateway-arch</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis is a revered monument to America’s western expansion. Envisioned in 1947 but not completed until the mid-1960s, the arch today attracts millions of tourists annually and is one of the world’s most widely recognized structures. By weaving together social, political, and cultural history, historian Tracy Campbell uncovers the complicated and troubling history of the beloved structure. This compelling book explores how a medley of players with widely divergent motivations (civic pride, ambition, greed, among others) brought the Gateway Arch to fruition, but at a price the city continues to pay.
"Campbell dispels long-held myths and casts a provocative new light on the true origins and meaning of the Gateway Arch. He shows that the monument was the scheme of shrewd city leaders who sought to renew downtown St. Louis and were willing to steal an election, destroy historic buildings, and drive out local people and businesses to achieve their goal. Campbell also tells the human story of the architect Eero Saarinen, whose prize-winning design brought him acclaim but also charges of plagiarism, and who never lived to see the completion of his vision. As a national symbol, the Gateway Arch has a singular place in American culture, Campbell concludes, yet it also stands as an instructive example of failed urban planning."

--- To my mind, the best place to view the arch is from the top of the mounds at Cahokia...]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300240269/american-enlightenments">
    <title>American Enlightenments | Yale University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-08T18:56:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300240269/american-enlightenments</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The accepted myth of the “American Enlightenment” suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the United States in the eighteenth century was the realization of utopian philosophies born in the intellectual salons of Europe and radiating outward to the New World. In this revelatory work, Stanford historian Caroline Winterer argues that a national mythology of a unitary, patriotic era of enlightenment in America was created during the Cold War to act as a shield against the threat of totalitarianism, and that Americans followed many paths toward political, religious, scientific, and artistic enlightenment in the 1700s that were influenced by European models in more complex ways than commonly thought. Winterer’s book strips away our modern inventions of the American national past, exploring which of our ideas and ideals are truly rooted in the eighteenth century and which are inventions and mystifications of more recent times."]]></description>
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    <title>Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-23T21:41:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[IIRC, 20k people would be about half the size of Philadelphia in 1776, but comparable to Boston or New York, and larger than anywhere from Maryland on south.  (But Tenochtitlan was 10 or 20 times larger when the conquistadors arrived.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>archaeology native_american_history american_history kansas</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983441">
    <title>Lord Cornwallis Is Dead — Nico Slate | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-02T15:10:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983441</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Do democratic states bring about greater social and economic equality among their citizens? Modern India embraced universal suffrage from the moment it was free of British imperial rule in 1947—a historical rarity in the West—and yet Indian citizens are far from realizing equality today. The United States, the first British colony to gain independence, continues to struggle with intolerance and the consequences of growing inequality in the twenty-first century.
"From Boston Brahmins to Mohandas Gandhi, from Hollywood to Bollywood, Nico Slate traces the continuous transmission of democratic ideas between two former colonies of the British Empire. Gandhian nonviolence lay at the heart of the American civil rights movement. Key Indian freedom fighters sharpened their political thought while studying and working in the United States. And the Indian American community fought its own battle for civil rights.
"Spanning three centuries and two continents, Lord Cornwallis Is Dead offers a new look at the struggle for freedom that linked two nations. While the United States remains the world’s most powerful democracy, India—the world’s most populous democracy—is growing in wealth and influence. Together, the United States and India will play a predominant role in shaping the future of democracy."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11282.html">
    <title>Acharya, A., Blackwell, M. and Sen, M.: Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics (Hardcover and eBook) | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-07-02T15:10:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11282.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights, and the death penalty, and southern whites harbor higher levels of racial resentment than whites in other parts of the country. Why haven't these sentiments evolved or changed? Deep Roots shows that the entrenched political and racial views of contemporary white southerners are a direct consequence of the region's slaveholding history, which continues to shape economic, political, and social spheres. Today, southern whites who live in areas once reliant on slavery—compared to areas that were not—are more racially hostile and less amenable to policies that could promote black progress. 
"Highlighting the connection between historical institutions and contemporary political attitudes, the authors explore the period following the Civil War when elite whites in former bastions of slavery had political and economic incentives to encourage the development of anti-black laws and practices. Deep Roots shows that these forces created a local political culture steeped in racial prejudice, and that these viewpoints have been passed down over generations, from parents to children and via communities, through a process called behavioral path dependence. While legislation such as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act made huge strides in increasing economic opportunity and reducing educational disparities, southern slavery has had a profound, lasting, and self-reinforcing influence on regional and national politics that can still be felt today."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo27949426">
    <title>Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism, Ogden</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-08T18:17:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo27949426</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States. Emily Ogden here offers the first comprehensive account of those boom years.
"Credulity tells the fascinating story of mesmerism’s spread from the plantations of the French Antilles to the textile factory cities of 1830s New England. As it proliferated along the Eastern seaboard, this occult movement attracted attention from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s circle and ignited the nineteenth-century equivalent of flame wars in the major newspapers. But mesmerism was not simply the last gasp of magic in modern times. Far from being magicians themselves, mesmerists claimed to provide the first rational means of manipulating the credulous human tendencies that had underwritten past superstitions. Now, rather than propping up the powers of oracles and false gods, these tendencies served modern ends such as labor supervision, education, and mediated communication. Neither an atavistic throwback nor a radical alternative, mesmerism was part and parcel of the modern. Credulity offers us a new way of understanding the place of enchantment in secularizing America."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://cambridge.org/9781107620575">
    <title>Rethinking 1950s how anticommunism and cold war made america liberal | Twentieth century American history | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-19T19:59:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cambridge.org/9781107620575</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Historians generally portray the 1950s as a conservative era when anticommunism and the Cold War subverted domestic reform, crushed political dissent, and ended liberal dreams of social democracy. These years, historians tell us, represented a turn to the right, a negation of New Deal liberalism, an end to reform. Jennifer A. Delton argues that, far from subverting the New Deal state, anticommunism and the Cold War enabled, fulfilled, and even surpassed the New Deal's reform agenda. Anticommunism solidified liberal political power and the Cold War justified liberal goals such as jobs creation, corporate regulation, economic redevelopment, and civil rights. She shows how despite President Eisenhower's professed conservativism, he maintained the highest tax rates in U.S. history, expanded New Deal programs, and supported major civil rights reforms."

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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo16463356">
    <title>Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic, McKay</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-06T00:32:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo16463356</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. How did this idea so swiftly come to exert such a strong grip on the scientific, media, and popular consciousness? In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay interprets a wealth of archival sources and interviews to demonstrate how this seemingly new concept drew upon centuries-old ideas—and fears—about contagion and social disorder.
"McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaétan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed—and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak. McKay shows how investigators from the US Centers for Disease Control inadvertently created the term amid their early research into the emerging health crisis; how an ambitious journalist dramatically amplified the idea in his determination to reframe national debates about AIDS; and how many individuals grappled with the notion of patient zero—adopting, challenging and redirecting its powerful meanings—as they tried to make sense of and respond to the first fifteen years of an unfolding epidemic. With important insights for our interconnected age, Patient Zero untangles the complex process by which individuals and groups create meaning and allocate blame when faced with new disease threats. What McKay gives us here is myth-smashing revisionist history at its best."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo26267945">
    <title>Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, Emre</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-06T00:30:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo26267945</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, “good” readers—attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre’s tongue-in-cheek term, “bad” readers. They read fiction and poetry to be moved, distracted, instructed, improved, engaged as citizens. How should we think about those readers, and what should we make of the structures, well outside the academy, that generate them?
"We should, Emre argues, think of such readers not as non-literary but as paraliterary—thriving outside the institutions we take as central to the literary world. She traces this phenomenon to the postwar period, when literature played a key role in the rise of American power. At the same time as American universities were producing good readers by the hundreds, many more thousands of bad readers were learning elsewhere to be disciplined public communicators, whether in diplomatic and ambassadorial missions, private and public cultural exchange programs, multinational corporations, or global activist groups. As we grapple with literature’s diminished role in the public sphere, Paraliterary suggests a new way to think about literature, its audience, and its potential, one that looks at the civic institutions that have long engaged readers ignored by the academy."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo27128771">
    <title>American Academic Cultures: A History of Higher Education, Mattingly</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-06T00:17:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo27128771</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for context and inspiration. But that history only helps, Paul H. Mattingly argues, if it’s seen as something more than a linear progress through time. With American Academic Cultures, he offers a different type of history of American higher learning, showing how its current state is the product of different, varied generational cultures, each grounded in its own moment in time and driven by historically distinct values that generated specific problems and responses.
"Mattingly sketches out seven broad generational cultures: evangelical, Jeffersonian, republican/nondenominational, industrially driven, progressively pragmatic, internationally minded, and the current corporate model. What we see through his close analysis of each of these cultures in their historical moments is that the politics of higher education, both inside and outside institutions, are ultimately driven by the dominant culture of the time. By looking at the history of higher education in this new way, Mattingly opens our eyes to our own moment, and the part its culture plays in generating its politics and promise."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted education academia american_history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo27212995">
    <title>Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America, Pietruska</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-06T00:06:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo27212995</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possible to look into the future with any degree of certainty. In Looking Forward, Jamie L. Pietruska uncovers a culture of prediction in the modern era, where forecasts became commonplace as crop forecasters, “weather prophets,” business forecasters, utopian novelists, and fortune-tellers produced and sold their visions of the future. Private and government forecasters competed for authority—as well as for an audience—and a single prediction could make or break a forecaster’s reputation. 
"Pietruska argues that this late nineteenth-century quest for future certainty had an especially ironic consequence: it led Americans to accept uncertainty as an inescapable part of both forecasting and twentieth-century economic and cultural life. Drawing together histories of science, technology, capitalism, environment, and culture, Looking Forward explores how forecasts functioned as new forms of knowledge and risk management tools that sometimes mitigated, but at other times exacerbated, the very uncertainties they were designed to conquer. Ultimately Pietruska shows how Americans came to understand the future itself as predictable, yet still uncertain."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/grid">
    <title>The Grid | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-06T02:33:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/grid</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The North American power grid has been called the world’s largest machine. The grid connects nearly every living soul on the continent; Americans rely utterly on the miracle of electrification. In this book, Julie Cohn tells the history of the grid, from early linkages in the 1890s through the grid’s maturity as a networked infrastructure in the 1980s. She focuses on the strategies and technologies used to control power on the grid—in fact made up of four major networks of interconnected power systems—paying particular attention to the work of engineers and system operators who handled the everyday operations. To do so, she consulted sources that range from the pages of historical trade journals to corporate archives to the papers of her father, Nathan Cohn, who worked in the industry from 1927 to 1989—roughly the period of key power control innovations across North America.
"Cohn investigates major challenges and major breakthroughs but also the hidden aspects of our electricity infrastructure, both technical and human. She describes the origins of the grid and the growth of interconnection; emerging control issues, including difficulties in matching generation and demand on linked systems; collaboration and competition against the backdrop of economic depression and government infrastructure investment; the effects of World War II on electrification; postwar plans for a coast-to-coast grid; the northeast blackout of 1965 and the East-West closure of 1967; and renewed efforts at achieving stability and reliability after those two events."]]></description>
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    <title>Israel, J.: The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-05T18:25:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11080.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ideas of American founders such as Paine, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Monroe set the pattern for democratic revolutions, movements, and constitutions in France, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Canada, Haiti, Brazil, and Spanish America.
"The Expanding Blaze reminds us that the American Revolution was an astonishingly radical event—and that it didn’t end with the transformation and independence of America. Rather, the Revolution continued to reverberate in Europe and the Americas for the next three-quarters of a century. This comprehensive history of the Revolution’s international influence traces how American efforts to implement Radical Enlightenment ideas—including the destruction of the old regime and the promotion of democratic republicanism, self-government, and liberty—helped drive revolutions abroad, as foreign leaders explicitly followed the American example and espoused American democratic values."]]></description>
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    <title>W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee – CIVIL WAR MEMORY</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-24T13:44:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cwmemory.com/2017/05/30/w-e-b-dubois-on-robert-e-lee/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Each year on the 19th of January there is renewed effort to canonize Robert E. Lee, the greatest confederate general. His personal comeliness, his aristocratic birth and his military prowess all call for the verdict of greatness and genius. But one thing–one terrible fact–militates against this and that is the inescapable truth that Robert E. Lee led a bloody war to perpetuate slavery. Copperheads like the New York Times may magisterially declare: “of course, he never fought for slavery.” Well, for what did he fight? State rights? Nonsense. The South cared only for State Rights as a weapon to defend slavery. If nationalism had been a stronger defense of the slave system than particularism, the South would have been as nationalistic in 1861 as it had been in 1812.
"No. People do not go to war for abstract theories of government. They fight for property and privilege and that was what Virginia fought for in the Civil War. And Lee followed Virginia. He followed Virginia not because he particularly loved slavery (although he certainly did not hate it), but because he did not have the moral courage to stand against his family and his clan. Lee hesitated and hung his head in shame because he was asked to lead armies against human progress and Christian decency and did not dare refuse. He surrendered not to Grant, but to Negro Emancipation.
"Today we can best perpetuate his memory and his nobler traits not by falsifying his moral debacle, but by explaining it to the young white south. What Lee did in 1861, other Lees are doing in 1928. They lack the moral courage to stand up for justice to the Negro because of the overwhelming public opinion of their social environment. Their fathers in the past have condoned lynching and mob violence, just as today they acquiesce in the disfranchisement of educated and worthy black citizens, provide wretchedly inadequate public schools for Negro children and endorse a public treatment of sickness, poverty and crime which disgraces civilization.
"It is the punishment of the South that its Robert Lees and Jefferson Davises will always be tall, handsome and well-born. That their courage will be physical and not moral. That their leadership will be weak compliance with public opinion and never costly and unswerving revolt for justice and right. it is ridiculous to seek to excuse Robert Lee as the most formidable agency this nation ever raised to make 4 million human beings goods instead of men. Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God."]]></description>
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    <title>State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-18T20:51:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://prospect.org/article/state-enforced-segregation-and-color-justice</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews inequality the_american_dilemma american_history have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo19995111">
    <title>A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education, Labaree</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-19T20:30:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo19995111</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Read the news about America’s colleges and universities—rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators—and it’s clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it’s always been that way. And that’s exactly why it has become the most successful and sought-after source of learning in the world. Detailing American higher education’s unusual struggle for survival in a free market that never guaranteed its place in society—a fact that seemed to doom it in its early days in the nineteenth century—he tells a lively story of the entrepreneurial spirit that drove American higher education to become the best.
"And the best it is: today America’s universities and colleges produce the most scholarship, earn the most Nobel prizes, hold the largest endowments, and attract the most esteemed students and scholars from around the world. But this was not an inevitability. Weakly funded by the state, American schools in their early years had to rely on student tuition and alumni donations in order to survive. This gave them tremendous autonomy to seek out sources of financial support and pursue unconventional opportunities to ensure their success. As Labaree shows, by striving as much as possible to meet social needs and fulfill individual ambitions, they developed a broad base of political and financial support that, grounded by large undergraduate programs, allowed for the most cutting-edge research and advanced graduate study ever conducted. As a result, American higher education eventually managed to combine a unique mix of the populist, the practical, and the elite in a single complex system.
"The answers to today’s problems in higher education are not easy, but as this book shows, they shouldn’t be: no single person or institution can determine higher education’s future. It is something that faculty, administrators, and students—adapting to society’s needs—will determine together, just as they have always done."]]></description>
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    <title>Fugitive Science: A New Book on Scientific Racism in America – AAIHS</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-23T18:15:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.aaihs.org/fugitive-science-a-new-book-on-scientific-racism-in-america/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo25051625">
    <title>The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States, 1945-2016, Heller</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-04T13:52:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo25051625</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Higher education news today can more or less be boiled down to one sentence: the university is in crisis. Skyrocketing student debt, decreased public financing, the weakening of tenure, the rise of adjunct labor, battles over the value of the humanities, calls for skills focused instruction—all the problems besetting contemporary higher education in the United States are interrelated, and they can all be traced to one fact: campuses and classrooms are now battlegrounds in the struggle between knowledge for its own sake and commodified learning.
"Henry Heller offers here a magisterial account of the modern university that shows exactly how we’ve reached this point. Taking readers from the early Cold War—when support for universities was support for capitalism—through the countless social, political, and educational changes of the ensuing decades, Heller reveals how American educational institutions have been forced to decide between teaching students to question the dominant order and helping to perpetuate it. And they’ve had to do so knowing that all the pressure politics and finance was pushing for the latter.
"Heller covers such key moments as McCarthyism and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, as well as contemporary struggles including the attempts at unionization of post-doctorals, the National Adjuncts Walkout Day in 2015, the protests in Missouri related to race, workplace benefits, and leadership, and the firing of Steven Salaita for his pro-Palestinian tweets, which sparked a huge controversy around free speech and academic freedom. The Capitalist University is a thoroughly grounded radical history of an institution whose influence and importance—and failures—reach deep into American political and social life."]]></description>
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    <title>What American Government Does</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-06T20:41:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/what-american-government-does</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It has become all too easy to disparage the role of the US government today. Many Americans are influenced by a simplistic anti-government ideology that is itself driven by a desire to roll back the more democratically responsive aspects of public policy. But government has improved the lives of Americans in numerous ways, from providing income, food, education, housing, and healthcare support, to ensuring cleaner air, water, and food, to providing a vast infrastructure upon which economic growth depends.
"In What American Government Does, Stan Luger and Brian Waddell offer a practical understanding of the scope and function of American governance. They present a historical overview of the development of US governance that is rooted in the theoretical work of Charles Tilly, Karl Polanyi, and Michael Mann. Touching on everything from taxes, welfare, and national and domestic security to the government’s regulatory, developmental, and global responsibilities, each chapter covers a main function of American government and explains how it emerged and then evolved over time. Luger and Waddell are careful to both identify the controversies related to what government does and those areas of government that should elicit concern and vigilance. Analyzing the functions of the US government in terms of both a tug-of-war and a collaboration between state and societal forces, they provide a reading of American political development that dispels the myth of a weak, minimal, non-interventionist state."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/universities-and-their-cities">
    <title>Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-06T16:21:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/universities-and-their-cities</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Today, a majority of American college students attend school in cities. But throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities faced deep hostility from writers, intellectuals, government officials, and educators who were concerned about the impact of cities, immigrants, and commuter students on college education. In Universities and Their Cities, Steven J. Diner explores the roots of American colleges’ traditional rural bias. Why were so many people, including professors, uncomfortable with nonresident students? How were the missions and activities of urban universities influenced by their cities? And how, improbably, did much-maligned urban universities go on to profoundly shape contemporary higher education across the nation?
"Surveying American higher education from the early nineteenth century to the present, Diner examines the various ways in which universities responded to the challenges offered by cities. In the years before World War II, municipal institutions struggled to "build character" in working class and immigrant students. In the postwar era, universities in cities grappled with massive expansion in enrollment, issues of racial equity, the problems of "disadvantaged" students, and the role of higher education in addressing the "urban crisis." Over the course of the twentieth century, urban higher education institutions greatly increased the use of the city for teaching, scholarly research on urban issues, and inculcating civic responsibility in students. In the final decades of the century, and moving into the twenty-first century, university location in urban areas became increasingly popular with both city-dwelling students and prospective resident students, altering the long tradition of anti-urbanism in American higher education.
"Drawing on the archives and publications of higher education organizations and foundations, Universities and Their Cities argues that city universities brought about today’s commitment to universal college access by reaching out to marginalized populations. Diner shows how these institutions pioneered the development of professional schools and PhD programs. Finally, he considers how leaders of urban higher education continuously debated the definition and role of an urban university. Ultimately, this book is a considered and long overdue look at the symbiotic impact of these two great American institutions: the city and the university."]]></description>
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    <title>Cowie, J.: The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics. (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-04T23:03:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the United States government achieved a unique level of equality, using its considerable resources on behalf of working Americans in ways that it had not before and has not since. If there is to be a comparable battle for collective economic rights today, Cowie argues, it needs to build on an understanding of the unique political foundation for the New Deal. Anyone who wants to come to terms with the politics of inequality in the United States will need to read The Great Exception."

]]></description>
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    <title>Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-30T13:03:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/age-system</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Before the Second World War, social scientists struggled to define and defend their disciplines. After the war, "high modern" social scientists harnessed new resources in a quest to create a unified understanding of human behavior—and to remake the world in the image of their new model man.
"In Age of System, Hunter Heyck explains why social scientists—shaped by encounters with the ongoing "organizational revolution" and its revolutionary technologies of communication and control—embraced a new and extremely influential perspective on science and nature, one that conceived of all things in terms of system, structure, function, organization, and process. He also explores how this emerging unified theory of human behavior implied a troubling similarity between humans and machines, with freighted implications for individual liberty and self-direction.
"These social scientists trained a generation of decision-makers in schools of business and public administration, wrote the basic textbooks from which millions learned how the economy, society, polity, culture, and even the mind worked, and drafted the position papers, books, and articles that helped set the terms of public discourse in a new era of mass media, think tanks, and issue networks. Drawing on close readings of key texts and a broad survey of more than 1,800 journal articles, Heyck follows the dollars—and the dreams—of a generation of scholars that believed in "the system." He maps the broad landscape of changes in the social sciences, focusing especially intently on the ideas and practices associated with modernization theory, rational choice theory, and modeling. A highly accomplished historian, Heyck relays this complicated story with unusual clarity."]]></description>
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    <title>The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-30T13:00:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Cybernetics—the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans—originates from efforts during World War II to build automatic anti-aircraft systems. Following the war, this science extended beyond military needs to examine all systems that rely on information and feedback, from the level of the cell to that of society. In The Cybernetics Moment, Ronald R. Kline, a senior historian of technology, examines the intellectual and cultural history of cybernetics and information theory, whose language of "information," "feedback," and "control" transformed the idiom of the sciences, hastened the development of information technologies, and laid the conceptual foundation for what we now call the Information Age.
"Kline argues that, for about twenty years after 1950, the growth of cybernetics and information theory and ever-more-powerful computers produced a utopian information narrative—an enthusiasm for information science that influenced natural scientists, social scientists, engineers, humanists, policymakers, public intellectuals, and journalists, all of whom struggled to come to grips with new relationships between humans and intelligent machines.
"Kline traces the relationship between the invention of computers and communication systems and the rise, decline, and transformation of cybernetics by analyzing the lives and work of such notables as Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Warren McCulloch, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Herbert Simon. Ultimately, he reveals the crucial role played by the cybernetics moment—when cybernetics and information theory were seen as universal sciences—in setting the stage for our current preoccupation with information technologies."]]></description>
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    <title>Information at Sea: Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-30T12:59:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/information-sea</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The brain of a modern warship is its combat information center (CIC). Data about friendly and enemy forces pour into this nerve center, contributing to command decisions about firing, maneuvering, and coordinating. Timothy S. Wolters has written the first book to investigate the history of the CIC and the many other command and control systems adopted by the U.S. Navy from the Civil War to World War II. What institutional ethos spurred such innovation? Information at Sea tells the fascinating stories of the naval and civilian personnel who developed an array of technologies for managing information at sea, from signal flares and radio to encryption machines and radar.
"Wolters uses previously untapped archival sources to explore how one of America's most technologically oriented institutions addressed information management before the advent of the digital computer. He argues that the human-machine systems used to coordinate forces were as critical to naval successes in World War II as the ships and commanders more familiar to historians."]]></description>
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    <title>Space and the American Imagination</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-30T12:56:05+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["People dreamed of cosmic exploration—winged spaceships and lunar voyages; space stations and robot astronauts—long before it actually happened. Space and the American Imagination traces the emergence of space travel in the popular mind, its expression in science fiction, and its influence on national space programs.
"Space exploration dramatically illustrates the power of imagination. Howard E. McCurdy shows how that power inspired people to attempt what they once deemed impossible. In a mere half-century since the launch of the first Earth-orbiting satellite in 1957, humans achieved much of what they had once only read about in the fiction of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells and the nonfiction of Willy Ley.
"Reaching these goals, however, required broad-based support, and McCurdy examines how advocates employed familiar metaphors to excite interest (promising, for example, that space exploration would recreate the American frontier experience) and prepare the public for daring missions into space. When unexpected realities and harsh obstacles threatened their progress, the space community intensified efforts to make their wildest dreams come true.
"This lively and important work remains relevant given contemporary questions about future plans at NASA. Fully revised and updated since its original publication in 1997, Space and the American Imagination includes a reworked introduction and conclusion and new chapters on robotics and space commerce."]]></description>
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    <title>Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-30T12:55:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement. The Cold War placed two opposite conceptions of the good society before the uncommitted world and history itself, and science figured prominently in the picture. Competing with the Soviets offers a short, accessible introduction to the special role that science and technology played in maintaining state power during the Cold War, from the atomic bomb to the Human Genome Project.
"The high-tech machinery of nuclear physics and the space race are at the center of this story, but Audra J. Wolfe also examines the surrogate battlefield of scientific achievement in such diverse fields as urban planning, biology, and economics; explains how defense-driven federal investments created vast laboratories and research programs; and shows how unfamiliar worries about national security and corrosive questions of loyalty crept into the supposedly objective scholarly enterprise.
"Based on the assumption that scientists are participants in the culture in which they live, Competing with the Soviets looks beyond the debate about whether military influence distorted science in the Cold War. Scientists’ choices and opportunities have always been shaped by the ideological assumptions, political mandates, and social mores of their times. The idea that American science ever operated in a free zone outside of politics is, Wolfe argues, itself a legacy of the ideological Cold War that held up American science, and scientists, as beacons of freedom in contrast to their peers in the Soviet Union. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the book highlights how ideas about the appropriate relationships among science, scientists, and the state changed over time."]]></description>
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    <title>Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (with picture). | The Edge of the American West</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-29T15:01:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-06T01:06:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["During the colonial era, ordinary Philadelphians played an unusually active role in political life. Because the city lacked a strong central government, private individuals working in civic associations of their own making shouldered broad responsibility for education, poverty relief, church governance, fire protection, and even taxation and military defense. These organizations dramatically expanded the opportunities for white men—rich and poor alike—to shape policies that immediately affected their communities and their own lives.
"In Governed by a Spirit of Opposition, Jessica Choppin Roney explains how allowing people from all walks of life to participate in political activities amplified citizen access and democratic governance. Merchants, shopkeepers, carpenters, brewers, shoemakers, and silversmiths served as churchwardens, street commissioners, constables, and Overseers of the Poor. They volunteered to fight fires, organized relief for the needy, contributed money toward the care of the sick, took up arms in defense of the community, raised capital for local lending, and even interjected themselves in Indian diplomacy. Ultimately, Roney suggests, popular participation in charity, schools, the militia, and informal banks empowered people in this critically important colonial city to overthrow the existing government in 1776 and re-envision the parameters of democratic participation.
"Governed by a Spirit of Opposition argues that the American Revolution did not occasion the birth of commonplace political activity or of an American culture of voluntary association. Rather, the Revolution built upon a long history of civic engagement and a complicated relationship between the practice of majority-rule and exclusionary policy-making on the part of appointed and self-selected constituencies."]]></description>
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    <title>Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the &lt;I&gt;Evergreen Review&lt;/I&gt;, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde | Loren Glass</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-25T15:19:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sup.org/books/title/?id=22373</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Responsible for such landmark publications as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, Naked Lunch, Waiting for Godot,The Wretched of the Earth , and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Grove Press was the most innovative publisher of the postwar era. Counterculture Colophon tells the story of how the press and its house journal, The Evergreen Review, revolutionized the publishing industry and radicalized the reading habits of the "paperback generation." In the process, it offers a new window onto the 1960s, from 1951, when Barney Rosset purchased the fledgling press for $3,000, to 1970, when the multimedia corporation into which he had built the company was crippled by a strike and feminist takeover.
"Grove Press was not only responsible for ending censorship of the printed word in the United States but also for bringing avant-garde literature, especially drama, into the cultural mainstream as part of the quality paperback revolution. Much of this happened thanks to Rosset, whose charismatic leadership was crucial to Grove's success. With chapters covering world literature and the Latin American boom, including Grove's close association with UNESCO and the rise of cultural diplomacy; experimental drama such as the theater of the absurd, the Living Theater, and the political epics of Bertolt Brecht; pornography and obscenity, including the landmark publication of the complete work of the Marquis de Sade; revolutionary writing, featuring Rosset's daring pursuit of the Bolivian journals of Che Guevara; and underground film, including the innovative development of the pocket filmscript, Loren Glass covers the full spectrum of Grove's remarkable achievement as a communications center of the counterculture."]]></description>
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    <title>The Political Legacy of American Slavery: The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No 0</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-25T16:13:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/686631</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American South in part trace their origins to slavery’s prevalence more than 150 years ago. Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican, oppose affirmative action, and express racial resentment and colder feelings toward blacks. We show that these results cannot be explained by existing theories, including the theory of contemporary racial threat. To explain the results, we offer evidence for a new theory involving the historical persistence of political attitudes. Following the Civil War, Southern whites faced political and economic incentives to reinforce existing racist norms and institutions to maintain control over the newly freed African American population. This amplified local differences in racially conservative political attitudes, which in turn have been passed down locally across generations."]]></description>
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    <title>Schickler, E.: Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-03T20:51:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10750.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites—such as Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater—set in motion a dramatic and sudden reshuffling of party positioning on racial issues during the 1960s. Racial Realignment instead argues that top party leaders were actually among the last to move, and that their choices were dictated by changes that had already occurred beneath them. Drawing upon rich data sources and original historical research, Eric Schickler shows that the two parties' transformation on civil rights took place gradually over decades.
"Schickler reveals that Democratic partisanship, economic liberalism, and support for civil rights had crystallized in public opinion, state parties, and Congress by the mid-1940s. This trend was propelled forward by the incorporation of African Americans and the pro-civil-rights Congress of Industrial Organizations into the Democratic coalition. Meanwhile, Republican partisanship became aligned with economic and racial conservatism. Scrambling to maintain existing power bases, national party elites refused to acknowledge these changes for as long as they could, but the civil rights movement finally forced them to choose where their respective parties would stand."]]></description>
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    <title>The Real American Love Story</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-15T21:54:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/1999/10/the_real_american_love_story.html</link>
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