- The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 1, 1828-1854
- Edited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey
- The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today's party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 2, 1854-1876
- Joel H. Silbey, Editor
- The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The pamphlets demonstrate how, for this fifty-year period, political parties were surrogates for American demands and values.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- The Association
- Eugene Charlton Black
- Hardcover
- Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency
- Samuel P. Hays
- Paperback
- The Conservative Ascendancy
- Donald T. Critchlow
- In this provocative history of the Right in modern America, Critchlow finds a deep dilemma inherent in how conservative Republicans expressed their anti-statist ideology in an age of mass democracy and Cold War hostilities. As the Right moved forward with its political program, partisanship intensified and ideological division widened--both between the parties and across the electorate. This intensified partisanship reflects the vibrancy of a mature democracy, Critchlow argues, and a new level of political engagement despite its disquieting effect on American political debate.
- Hardcover 2007
- Democracy and Disagreement
- Amy Gutmann
- Dennis Thompson
- Gutmann and Thompson show how a deliberative democracy can address some of our most difficult controversies--from abortion and affirmative action to health care and welfare--and can allow diverse groups to reason together.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- The End of Southern Exceptionalism
- Byron E. Shafer
- Richard Johnston
- Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Greatest Nation of the Earth
- Heather Cox Richardson
- Rejecting the common assumption that domestic legislation during the Civil War was a series of piecemeal reactions to wartime necessities, Heather Cox Richardson argues that Republican party members systematically engineered pathbreaking laws to promote their distinctive theory of political economy.
- Hardcover 1997
- The Path to Christian Democracy
- Noel Cary
- Challenging those who seek continuity in German history primarily in terms of its long march toward Nazism, this book searches for the indigenous origins of postwar German democracy. By exploring the links between earlier abortive Catholic initiatives and the range of competing postwar visions of the new party system, this book moves Catholic Germany from the periphery to the heart of the issue of continuity in modern German history.
- Hardcover 1996
- Revolutionary Politics in the Long Parliament
- John R. MacCormack
- This volume is a systematic study of the politics of five crucial years of the Puritan Revolution, the period between John Pym's death in December 1643 and the execution of Charles I in January 1649. MacCormack examines the Long Parliament and the structures of its parties. He investigates the degree to which the division between parties was religious or political, the character of the leadership of the two major groups, and the transformation of the parties during the five-year period.
- Hardcover 1973
- Rightward Bound
- Edited by Bruce J. Schulman
- Edited by Julian E. Zelizer
- Often considered a lost decade, a pause between the liberal Sixties and Reagan’s Eighties, the 1970s were indeed a watershed era when the forces of a conservative counter-revolution cohered. A critical decade in American history, Rightward Bound illuminates the seeds of both the successes and the failures of the conservative revolution.
- Paperback 2008 / Hardcover 2008
- The Splintered Party
- Dan White
- The Splintered Party is inevitably, in its broadest aspect, an inquiry into the weaknesses of liberalism in the Empire of Bismarck and Wilhelm II. White explores this from a new perspective, emphasizing regional circumstances as primary agents of the party's decline. The resulting portrait underscores the paradox of the National Liberals: a party with strength in all areas of the Empire, a rarity before 1914, yet a party whose impact was undermined by divisions among its regional branches.
- Hardcover 1976