Southern Nation - Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction

How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil WarNo question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. Southern Nation examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions from Reconstruction to the New Deal-and along the w

About the author

David A. Bateman is assistant professor of government at Cornell University. Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. His books include Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. John S. Lapinski is the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor, professor of political science, and faculty director of the Fox Leadership Program and the Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and director of elections at NBC News. His books include The Substance of Representation: Congress, American Political Development, and Lawmaking (Princeton).

Summary

How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil WarNo question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. Southern Nation examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions from Reconstruction to the New Deal-and along the w

Additional text

"Winner of the V.O. Key Award, Southern Political Science Association"

Product details

• Authors: David Bateman, David A. Bateman, David Katznelson Bateman, Bateman David, I Katznelson, Ira Katznelson, Katznelson Ira, John S. Lapinski, Lapinski John S.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780691126494
• ISBN: 978-0-691-12649-4
• No. of pages: 488
• Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives; Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives; Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Regional Government Policies, Regional, state and other local government policies