From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory State-Building, and the Limits of the Modern Order

by Marc Allen Eisner

Book Overview

When American history is divided into discrete eras, the New Deal stands, along with the Civil War, as one of those distinctive events that forever change the trajectory of the nation's development. The story of the New Deal provides a convenient tool of periodization and a means of interpreting U.S. history and the significance of contemporary political cleavages. Eisner's careful examination of the historical record, however, leads one to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271019964
• ISBN13: 9780271019963
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"