Browsing by Author "Cohen, Lizabeth"
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A Choice, Not an Echo: Polarization and the Transformation of the American Party System
Rosenfeld, Sam Hoffmann (2014-06-06)This dissertation offers an intellectual and institutional history of party polarization and ideological realignment in the postwar United States. It treats the construction of an ideologically sorted party system as a ... -
A City within a City: Community Development and the Struggle over Harlem, 1961-2001
Goldstein, Brian David (2013-07-05)This dissertation examines the idea of community development in the last four decades of the twentieth century through the example of the Harlem neighborhood of New York City and, in doing so, explains the broader ... -
Colston E. Warne Lecture: Is it Time for Another Round of Consumer Protection? The Lessons of Twentieth-Century U.S. History
Cohen, Lizabeth (John Wiley & Sons, 2010)The first year of Barack Obama's presidency has returned consumer issues to center stage, with several contentious struggles over consumer protection. This moment can be viewed as a fourth wave of the twentieth-century ... -
A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Cohen, Lizabeth (University of Chicago Press, 2004) -
Free to Move? The Law and Politics of Internal Migration in Twentieth-Century America
Minoff, Elisa Martia Alvarez (2013-09-23)The history of the United States in the mid-twentieth century is, in significant measure, a history of internal migration. Between 1930 and 1970, as national quota laws kept the nation's foreign-born population at record ... -
From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America
Cohen, Lizabeth (Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1996) -
Katznelson's Working Within the System Now
Cohen, Lizabeth (Cambridge University Press, 1994)Germany has been reunified. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have fractured into ethnically defined nationalist republics trying to dismantle decades of communist political and economic structures and replace them with ... -
Making a Workforce, Unmaking a Working Class: The Creation of a Human Capital Society in Houston, 1900-1980
Etheridge, Bryant Lucien (2014-06-06)This dissertation explains how increased educational attainment became the most politically viable means of reducing economic inequality in the postwar United States. Using Houston as a case study, the dissertation argues ... -
Outsourcing Government: Boston and the Rise of Public-Private Partnerships, 1950-2000
Dunning, Claire (2016-05-17)Through a study of Boston and federal social policy, this dissertation analyzes the rise of public-private partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations in the United States over the second half of the twentieth ... -
The Politics of Conscience: Religious Activism and Social Change in Postwar America
Bohlen, Casey (2016-09-15)This dissertation is a history of the post-World War II United States religious left, from its birth in the early Cold War through its twilight in the mid-1970s. Although the study of religion and politics is flourishing, ... -
The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
Cook, Eli (2013-10-14)A history of statistical economic indicators in America, this dissertation uncovers the protracted struggle which took place in the nineteenth century over how economic life should be quantified, how social progress should ... -
Struggling on the Home Front: The Personal, the Political, and Working-Class Women
Cohen, Lizabeth (Duke University Press, 1996) -
Tradition and the Working Class, 1850–1950
Cohen, Lizabeth (Cambridge University Press, 1992)For two days, October 25–26, 1991, about forty scholars—mostly, but not exclusively, historians—sat around a conference table in the Alumni Room of the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and discussed “Tradition and ...