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Politics and Culture in Modern America
Books in the series examine political and social change in the broadest dimensions from 1865 to the present, including ideas about the ways people have sought and wielded power in the public sphere and the language and institutions of politics at all levels. The series is motivated by a desire to encourage synthetic perspectives.
Series Editors:
Keisha N. Blain
Professor of History and Africana Studies, Brown University
Margot Canaday
Professor of History, Princeton University
Matthew Lassiter
Professor of History, University of Michigan
Stephen Pitti
Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University
Thomas J. Sugrue
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, New York University
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
Mexican Arizona and the Politics of Educational Equality
Laura K. Muñoz
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512825114
Pub Date: December 2023
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Desert Dreams chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post–World War II era....
From workplace accidents to polio epidemics and new waves of immigration to the returning veterans of World War II, the first half of the twentieth century brought the issue of disability—what it...
The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
Clayton Howard
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512824742
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Paperback
392 Pages
The right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has become a rallying point for political issues ranging from abortion...
Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care
Guian A. McKee
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512823936
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and...
Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
Brent Cebul
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512823813
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Hardcover
432 Pages
Today, the word “neoliberal” is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neoliberalism’s policy tools can be traced to the...
The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project’s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women....
While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This...
At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of...
The "Latino vote" has become a mantra in political media, as journalists, pundits, and social scientists regularly weigh in on Latinos' loyalty to the Democratic Party and the significance of their...
Contracting Freedom is the first relational study of the origins of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, focusing on their shared origins. It investigates these...
