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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"American Conservatism"”.
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Lincoln's Conservatives: Conservative Unionism and Political Tradition in the Civil War Era
… historians, who argue that nineteenth-century American politics was little influenced by ideology. Instead, by treating the public careers of self-identified conservatives in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet--Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Salmon P. Chase, and Gideon Welles--as exemplars of …
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The Yanks Are Striking: Kern County, the 1921 Oil Strike and the Discourse on Americanism
… the federal government and the ideology of the American Legion. The strike did not end in gruesome class warfare like had been seen months earlier in the coal mines of West Virginia, but rather in ideological confusion and despair. The oil workers movement never fully embraced a class identity; …
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The right, rights and the culture wars in the United States, 1981-1989
This thesis explores how the American right fought the culture wars of the 1980s in the context of the rights revolution and the regulatory state. It does so by examining divisions over anti-abortion measures in Congress, controversies surrounding allegations of discriminatory withholding of …