Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
Brent Cebul
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829716
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
432 Pages
In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul traces the rise of what he terms “supply-side liberalism” back to the 1930s and contends that, by binding national visions of progress to the local interests of capital, liberals often entrenched the very inequalities of power and opportunity they imagined their programs solving.
Contesting Values and Economics in American Politics
Gwendoline M. Alphonso
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829655
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Polarized Families, Polarized Parties demonstrates that differing regional ideals of family have shaped party policy and ideological positions throughout the twentieth century.
In Nuclear Country, Catherine McNicol Stock explores the question of why, between 1968 and 1992, most voters in the Dakotas abandoned their distinctive ideological heritage and came to embrace the New Right. Stock focuses on how this transformation coincided with the coming of the military and national security states to the countryside.
Religion in the Public Square examines how three very different members of clergy—Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell—each persuaded politicians and ordinary people that his theological ideas formed the foundation of American politics.
As poor and working people demanded a redistribution of wealth and power in the mid-twentieth century United States, they pressured Republican politicians to compromise. Kristoffer Smemo shows how, for the next four decades, those compromises forced a bloc of Republicans to articulate their own vision of liberalism.
Volume editor Elizabeth A. Foster and Udi Greenberg
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512824964
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
This collection of essays charts the evolution of Christian practice and institutions across the world throughout decolonization. Contributors argue that Western imperialism’s formal collapse ultimately triggered a radical change in the trajectory of global Christianity as the center of growth shifted from Europe to Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
From kabbalistic theology to economic philanthropy, from race and nationalism in the United States to Israeli legal discourse and feminist activism, this key study of Jewish political thought holds the promise to reorient the field of political thought as a whole by expanding conceptions of what counts as “political.”
