Rewriting the epic of America / Ira Katznelson -- International engagement and American democracy: a comparative perspective / Aristide R. Zolberg -- International commitments and American political institutions in the nineteenth century / Robert O. Keohane -- Flexible capacity: the military and...

"Through this authoritative account of the historical record and important new findings, Abramitzky and Boustan will help shape our thinking and policies about the fraught topic of immigration with findings such as: ·Where you come from doesn't matter. The children of immigrants from El...

"The three faces of risk" -- "Another day older and deeper in debt" -- "Locking down an American workforce" -- "Uncle Sam doesn't want you" -- "Making disaster pay" -- "Two gilded ages" -- "American labor and the great depression" -- "The age of acquiescence" -- "The limousine liberal's family...

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators...

Encountering America -- Gender, economic opportunities, and Italian woman worker in Endicott -- Gender, economic opportunities, and Italian businesswomen in Milwaukee -- Female professionals in the immigrant community : Italian-trained midwives

Klappentext: "From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism" seeks to change assumptions about American economics during the transformative period between the world wars. The twelve essays by respected economists and historians collected here take a precise look at the mechanisms that brought...