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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"American liberalism"”.
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Slavery and abortion: the paradox of american liberalism
… My contention is that it is the paradox of liberalism that allows for this. Slavery is the quintessential illiberal institution, yet liberal concepts allowed it to exist in America for over 200 years. It is my contention that abortion is another illiberal institution that is being promoted …
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The Ford Foundation and the Reinvention of American Liberalism, 1968-2000
… examines how the Ford Foundation reinvented American liberalism after 1968. As the largest philanthropic organization in the United States, Ford played a hitherto under-appreciated role in reshaping liberal policy toward poverty, crime, and racial inequality. This dissertation shows how the …
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Make Love to Your Mind: Dance, Disco and American Liberalism, 1970-1988
This thesis investigates American disco, 1970-1988, and argues that this history can give us an insight into how radically liberal values have spread into mainstream thinking through popular culture. Whilst disco’s embrace of racial and sexual diversity was once rebellious, and of the artistic …
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Henry Agard Wallace and Latin America (1932-1946): The Limits of American Liberalism
<p>The crowd waited anxiously, expecting the nominations for Vice President to begin momentarily. Throughout the galleries the chant began, "We want Wallace!" It swelled into an uproar and the chairman of the convention, Sam Jackson, despite all of his efforts, could not stop the chanting and the …
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Banking, law, and American liberalism: the rise and regulation of bank holding companies in the twentieth century
“Banking, Law, and American Liberalism: The Rise and Regulation of Bank Holding Companies in the Twentieth Century” excavates the history of the bank holding company, a corporation that owns or controls one or more United States banks, and the movement to prevent its monopolistic expansion in the …
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Woes of the Arkansas Internationalist: J. William Fulbright, the Middle East, and the Death of American Liberalism
<p>Contemporary scholarship has shown that J. William Fulbright's defeat in 1974 was due to a plethora of reasons including his opposition to America's involvement in Vietnam, lackadaisical attitude towards the monolithic threat of Communism, connection to the Washington establishment amidst the …
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Walter Lippmann's Search for a Sustainable Liberalism
… intellectual journey represents the journey of American liberalism in the 20th century: an attempted return from infatuation with the progressive ideals of inevitable historical development and scientific progress to the stability of human rights and freedom. America’s path to defining its brand …
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The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West
Historians of the American West have long identified the federal government's important role in shaping the region's physical and social landscapes, especially concerning water development. The Bureau of Reclamation, which built most of the West's major dams and water projects, traces its origins …
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The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West
Historians of the American West have long identified the federal government's important role in shaping the region's physical and social landscapes, especially concerning water development. The Bureau of Reclamation, which built most of the West's major dams and water projects, traces its origins …
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The systemic and ideological sources of grand strategic doctrine : American foreign policy in the twentieth century
… This study proposes and tests a theory of American grand strategy that places an emphasis on two key variables: the ideological content of American liberalism and geopolitical conditions abroad. It distinguishes between two varieties of thought within the American liberal tradition-termed …
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Offensive weapons: Herblock and the visual rhetoric of postwar liberalism
… one of the most prominent voices of liberalism in the postwar era. In his role as political cartoonist for the Washington Post, which he held from 1946 until his death in 2001, he articulated the values of liberalism to a much broader national audience than was reached by the writings …
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The Politics of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction
… works by a range of leading male contemporary American novelists alongside the recent resurgent interest in friendship as a political concept. Long exiled from serious political philosophy, friendship returned as a crucial term in late twentieth-century communitarian debates about citizenship. …