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    • New Governance for Rural America: Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships 

      Radin, Beryl A.; Agranoff, Robert; Bowman, Ann O’M.; Buntz, C. Gregory; Ott, J. Steven; Romzek, Barbara S.; Wilson, Robert (University Press of Kansas, 1996-04-01)
      Throughout the 1990s public demand for a fundamental shift in the relationship between government and its citizens has intensified. In response, a "new governance" model has emerged, emphasizing decreased federal control ...
    • The Roosevelt Foreign-Policy Establishment and the "Good Neighbor": The United States and Argentina, 1941-1945 

      Woods, Randall Bennett (University Press of Kansas, 1979-05-10)
      The Good Neighbor Policy was tested to the breaking point by Argentina-U.S. relations during World War II. In part, its durability had depended both upon the willingness of all American republics to join with the United ...
    • The American Deists: Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic 

      Walters, Kerry S. (University Press of Kansas, 1992-09-25)
      Challenging carved-in-stone tenets of Christianity, deism began sprouting in colonial America in the early eighteenth century, was flourishing nicely by the American Revolution, and for all intents and purposes was dead ...
    • The Political Theory of Conservative Economists 

      Waligorski, Conrad P. (University Press of Kansas, 1990-04-26)
      It’s difficult to overstate the impact of conservative economics on American life. The conservative thought of economists like Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Friedrick Hayek has provided the conceptual framework that ...
    • Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism 

      Vaughan, Leslie J. (University Press of Kansas, 1997-04-28)
      In the "little rebellion" that swept New York's Greenwich Village before World War I, few figures stood out more than Randolph Bourne. Hunchbacked and caped—the "little sparrowlike man" of Dos Passos' U.S.A.—Bourne was an ...
    • Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America 

      Taylor, Bob Pepperman (University Press of Kansas, 1992-09-09)
      Is democracy hazardous to the health of the environment? Addressing this and related questions, Bob Pepperman Taylor analyzes contemporary environmental political thought in America. He begins with the premise that ...
    • The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution 

      Stid, Daniel D. (University Press of Kansas, 1998-05-14)
      A political scientist who went on to become president, Woodrow Wilson envisioned a "responsible government" in which a strong leader and principled party would integrate the separate executive and legislative powers. His ...
    • Shaping Modern Liberalism: Herbert Croly and Progressive Thought 

      Stettner, Edward A. (University Press of Kansas, 1993-04-02)
      American ideals—liberty, equality, democracy, national unity—are bandied about by liberal politicians as a package deal, inseparably intertwined. But the words often flow together better as rhetoric than they mold together ...
    • George Washington and American Constitutionalism 

      Phelps, Glenn A. (University Press of Kansas, 1993-01-08)
      Known as the Father of His Country, George Washington is viewed as a demigod for what he was and did, not what he thought. In addition to being a popular icon for the forces of American nationalism, he served as ...
    • The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders 

      Pangle, Lorraine Smith; Pangle, Thomas L. (University Press of Kansas, 1993-06-04)
      American schools are in a state of crisis. At the root of our current perplexity, beneath the difficulties with funding, social problems, and low test scores, festers a serious uncertainty as to what the focus and goals ...
    • Slave Women in the New World: Gender Stratification in the Caribbean 

      Morrissey, Marietta (University Press of Kansas, 1989-06-30)
      In this innovative study, Marietta Morrissey reframes the debate over slavery in the New World by focusing on the experiences of slave women. Rich in detail and rigorously comparative, her work illuminates the exploitation, ...
    • Multiculturalism and American Democracy 

      Melzer, Arthur M.; Weinberger, Jerry; Zinman, M. Richard (University Press of Kansas, 1998-04-28)
      Multiculturalism: is it the face of twenty-first century America or merely a passing intellectual fad? With its celebration of ethnic diversity and strong advocacy of tolerance, this contemporary movement provides philosophical ...
    • Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Post-Liberal Order 

      McAllister, Ted V. (University Press of Kansas, 1996-01-22)
      Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss are two of the most provocative and durable political philosophers of this century. Ted McAllister's superbly written study provides the first comprehensive comparison of their thought and its ...
    • The Urban West at the End of the Frontier 

      Larsen, Lawrence H. (University Press of Kansas, 1978-05-03)
      Historians have largely ignored the western city; although a number of specialized studies have appeared in recent years, this volume is the first to assess the importance of the urban frontier in broad fashion. Lawrence ...
    • Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916 

      La Forte, Robert Sherman (University Press of Kansas, 1974-08-09)
      In Leaders of Reform Robert Sherman La Forte examines the intricacies of shifting factions within the state majority party over a two decade period, from the Boss-Busters and political machines of the early 1900s through ...
    • The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era 

      Ketcham, Ralph (University Press of Kansas, 2004-09-20)
      Although the last half of the twentieth century has been called the Age of Democracy, the twenty-first has already demonstrated the fragility of its apparent triumph as the dominant form of government throughout the ...
    • Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs: Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains 

      Isern, Thomas D. (University Press of Kansas, 1990-06-29)
      Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs is a panorama on a continental canvas: the Great Plains of North America, stretching from Texas to Alberta. Onto this surface the author lays the large features of regional practice in the ...
    • The Enduring Indians of Kansas: A Century and a Half of Acculturation 

      Herring, Joseph B. (University Press of Kansas, 1990-07-18)
      The Cherokees’ “Trail of Tears” and the forced migration of other Southern tribes during the 1830s and 1840s were the most notorious consequences of Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy. Less well known is the fact that ...
    • Kenekuk the Kickapoo Prophet 

      Herring, Joseph B. (University Press of Kansas, 1988-07-28)
      Most of the Indians whose names we remember were warriors Tecumseh, Black Hawk, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo men who led their people in a desperate defense of their lands and their way of life. But as Alvin Josephy ...
    • Ike's Letters to a Friend, 1941-1958 

      Griffith, Robert W. (University Press of Kansas, 1984-10-30)
      “Swede Hazlett was one of the people to whom I ‘opened up.’”—Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower and E. E. (“Swede”) Hazlett grew up together in Abilene, Kansas, and remained close, corresponding regularly from ...