 | Statebuilding from the Margins: Between Reconstruction and the New Deal Subjects: Progressivism (United States politics); United States -- Politics and government -- 1865–1933; United States -- Social policy; United States -- History -- 1865–1921; United States -- History -- 1919–1933; Statebuilding from the Margins addresses often overlooked cases of Progressive Era policy shifts in which private citizens and civic organizations forged hybrid institutions and state alliances to enact change in arenas such as Prohibition, citizenship, animal and waste management, and housing policy. Carol Nackenoff is Richter Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and author of The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse. Julie Novkov is Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY, and chair of the Department of Political Science. She is author of Racial Union and Constituting Workers, Protecting Women. |
