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In this collection of essays we find that tragedy and joy, victory and defeat, human fulfilment and human degradation are visible in roughly equal proportions in the story of the Americanization of the West: that the goals, both realistic and unrealistic, of one group, society, or culture are frequently pursued only at the expense of other groups.

This volume seeks to revive interest in the thought of Henry Adams. It extracts core ideas from his writings concerning both American political development and the course of world history and then shows their relevance to the contemporary longing for a democratic revival.

No Black American was more determined to realize the promise of American life following the Civil War, nor more frustrated by his inability to do so than John Lewis Waller. This book focuses on his career and his efforts to realize personal fulfillment in a racist world.

Argues persuasively that Washington's response to Argentine neutrality in World War II was based on internal differences than on external issues or economic motives. He explains how bureaucratic infighting within the US government, entirely irrelevant to the issues involved, shaped important national policy toward Argentina.

Lucius Polk Brown was a professional chemist who became a bureaucrat in the field of public health during the Progressive era. In focusing on Brown's struggles, achievements, and failures, Margaret Ripley Wolfe provides a comparative study of state and municipal health administrations and bureaucratic development.

Tells the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of production - including specific business problems and the significant work in upbreeding - and an examination of the marketing aspects of the industry that became so important during the twentieth century.

The conservative thought of economists like Milton Friedman and Friedrick Hayek has provided the framework that undergirds nearly much of current US social-economic policy. Although much has been written about the economic theories of these economists, this study is the first to examine the political theory that underlies conservative economics.

Bringing together the works of six major American deists - Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine, Elihu Palmer, and Philip Frenau - and the Frechman Comte de Volney, whose writings influenced the American deists, Kerry Walters has created the fullest analysis yet of deism and rational religion in colonial and early America.

Contrary to conventional views, this work argues that Thoreau was one of America's most powerful and least understood political thinkers. He is shown to be a profound social critic, genuinely concerned with the moral foundations of public life.

In the 'little rebellion' that swept New York's Greenwich Village before World War I, few figures stood out more than Randolph Bourne. In reexamining Bourne's writings, Leslie Vaughan has located the roots of twenthieth-century radical thought while repositioning Bourne at the center of debates about the nature and limits of American liberalism.

William Scully, an Irishman who was a member of the lesser landed gentry, put his life's energy into the accumulation of high-quality, low-cost land. Homer Socolofsky's biography, the product of more than thirty years of research, provides a narrative and analysis of Scully's activities as an investor in both Ireland and the United States.

This study explores the evolution of Wilson's vision of a ""responsible government"", in which the separate executive and legislative powers would be integrated, his endeavours to establish it in the United States, and the legacy it has left behind.

Uses a new analytical mode - critical pluralism - to describe, explain, and evaluate variations in three key measures of democratic performance: responsible representation, complex equality, and principle-policy congruence. To test this framework and methodology, Paul Schumaker analyses 29 community issues that arose in Lawrence, Kansas.

A one-stop reference work that is a governors' hall of fame - a compendium of information about the 51 men who have held the chief executive post since the opening of the Kansas Territory in 1854.

In this first full-length study of Herbert Croly's political theory, Edward Stettner analyses Croly's writings and examines the events, experiences, and people who influenced Croly's thinking. In the process, he reveals Croly's significant influence on modern liberalism as classical liberal theory merged with progressive philosophy.

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, achievements, and resilience of slave women in the British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish colonies in the Caribbean.

Few American Presidents have been more respected than FDR. There has been a tendency to disregard those officials who disagreed with him. In relating the viewpoint of a distinguished American who opposed FDR's policies and tried to change them, this book provides a clearer understanding of politics and government in pre-World War II America.

Nineteenth-century psychologist and pragmatist philosopher William James is rarely considered a political theorist. This first book by a political theorist devoted exclusively to James's theory argues that political concerns were in fact central to his intellectual work.

Offers a thorough treatment of every important aspect of minority affairs during the Truman administration. The authors trace the developments in the quest for minority rights from 1945 to 1953, show the interrelatedness to the struggle waged by America's racial minorities, and assess the role of the Truman administration in that struggle.

In provocative essays Forrest McDonald and his wife, Ellen Shapiro McDonald, cover a range of the intellectual, political, military, and social history of the eighteenth century to present a picture of the age in which the US Constitution was crafted and commentary on developments that have caused government to stray from the Founders' principles.

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 Larsen studies the process of urbanization as it occurred in twenty-four major frontier towns.

Offers a collection of essays that insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. From a variety of perspectives contributors address both the technical problems and the politics of water management to provide a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation.

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 formation of a new party behind Theodore Roosevelt in 1913.

In this provocative new interpretation of Frederick Jackson Turner's life, work, and legacy, Wilbur Jacobs challenges the views of traditionalists and views of traditionalists and revisionists alike.

Reassessing the fate of democracy for our time, distinguished political theorist Ralph Ketcham traces the evolution of this idea over the course of four hundred years. He traces democracy's bumpy ride in a book that is both an exercise in the history of ideas and an explication of democratic theory.

With this study the cattle guard joins the sod house, the windmill, and barbed wire as a symbol of range country on the American Great Plains. The author blends traditional history and folklore to trace the origins of the cattle guard and to describe how the device in its simplest form was reinvented and adapted throughout livestock country.

This retrospective study brings together twenty-two key associates of President Truman's to consider the administrative operation of the presidency from 1945 to 1953. The book presents an assortment of views on Truman's administrative philosophies and practices.

Dwight D. Eisenhower and E.E. ('Swede') Hazlett grew up together in Abilene, Kansas, and remained close, corresponding regularly from 1941 until Hazlett's death in 1958. The letters collected in this volume, many of them surprisingly revealing, contain Eisenhower's views on a wide range of diplomatic, military, and political issues.

In 1879 Walt Whitman made a trip to the West to Kansas. From his own research, as well as from Whitman's published daybooks and notebooks and his collected correspondence, Walter Eitner is able to piece together a detailed itinerary, and to compare the record of the actual journey with Whitman's own account.