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1999; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 28; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10457099909602358

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American Environmental and Regional History

Abstract Abstract Zelizer, Julian E. Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 New York: Cambridge University Press 384 pp., $49.95. ISBN 0-521-62166-6 Publication Date: 1998 Taxing America is hardly the first book to examine the evolution of public policy in the postwar United States. Nor is it unique in looking at congressional power and policymaking or the public life of Wilbur Mills, the legendary chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Julian Zelizer's contribution in this insightful and original volume lies in his synthesis of these subjects. He melds them together to provide an illuminating analysis of the underpinnings of the modern American state. Zelizer teaches history and public policy at SUNY, Albany. Trained as a historian, he also shows an admirable understanding of relevant research in political science. UNITED STATES:Politics and Public Policy. Epp, Charles R. The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Court Structures in Comparative Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 326 pp., $45.00 cloth, $17.00 paper ISBN 0-226-2116.1-4 cloth ISBN 0-226-21162-2 paper Publication Date: 1998 Ellis, Richard J., ed. Speaking to the People: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press 283 pp., $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 1-55849-158-9 cloth ISBN 1-55849-159-7 paper Publication Date: 1998 Sims, Laura S. The Politics of Fat: Food and Nutrition Policy in America. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharp 311 pp., $24.95 paper; 304 pp., $59.95 cloth ISBN 0-7656-0194-X paper ISBN 0-7656-0193-1 cloth Publication Date: March 1998 Stid, Daniel D. The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 231 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0884-2 Publication Date: May 1998 Klehr, Harvey, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson. The Soviet World of American Communism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 378 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-300-07150-7 Publication Date: March 1998 Handlin, Amy H. Whatever Happened to the Year of the Woman? Why Women Still Aren't Making It to the Top in Politics. Denver: Arden Press. 190 pp., $24.50 paper ISBN 0-912869-22-4 paper Publication Date: August 1998 Borins, Sandford. Innovating with Integrity: How Local Heroes Are Transforming American Government. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press 346 pp., $55.00 cloth, $23.95 paper ISBN 0-87840-687-5 cloth ISBN 0-87840-688-3 paper Publication Date: October 1998 Dinan, John J. Keeping the People's Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 259 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0905-9 Publication Date: September 1998 Ansell, Amy E., ed. Unraveling the Right: The New Conservatism in American Thought and Politics. Boulder, CO: Westview. 264 pp., $69.00. ISBN 0-8133-3146-3 Publication Date: April 1998 Mattson, Kevin. Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy during the Progressive Era. University Park, PA: Perm State University Press. 208 pp., $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-271-01722-8 cloth ISBN 0-271-01723-6 paper Publication Date: December 1997 Williams, Waller. Honest Numbers and Democracy: Social Policy Analysis in the White House, Congress, and the Federal Agencies. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 292 pp., $55.00 cloth, $23.95 paper ISBN 0-87840-670-0 cloth ISBN 0-87840-684-0 paper Publication Date: 1998 Jones, Charles O. Passages to the Presidency: From Campaigning to Governing. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 224 pp., $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8157-4714-4 cloth ISBN 0-8157-4713-6 paper Publication Date: 1998 Eliasoph, Nina. Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. New York: Cambridge University Press. 344 pp., $64.95 cloth, $22.95 paper ISBN 0-521-58293-8 cloth ISBN 0-521-58759-X paper Publication Date: 1998 Foreman, Christopher H., Jr. The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press 191 pp., $22.95, ISBN 0-8157-2878-6 Publication Date: September 1998 Kloppenberg, James T. The Virtues of Liberalism. New York: Oxford University Press. 240 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-19-512140-6 Publication Date: August 1998 Selnow, Gary W. Electronic Whistle-Stops: The Impact of the Internet on American Politics. Westport, CT: Praeger 221 pp., $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-275-96163-X cloth ISBN 0-275-96164-8 paper Publication Date: 1998 Fink, Gary M., and Hugh Davis Graham, eds. The Carter Presidency: Policy Choices in the Post-New Deal Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 310 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-0895-8 Publication Date: July 1998 Hanson, Russell L., ed. Governing Partners: State-Local Relations in the United States. Boulder, CO: Westview. 226 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-8133-2600-1 Publication Date: February 1998 UNITED STATES. Foreign Policy and National Security, Hirschbein, Ron. What if They Gave a Crisis and Nobody Came? Interpreting International Crises. Westport, CT: Praeger. 223 pp., $59.95. ISBN 0-275-96043-9 Publication Date: December 1997 Alterman, Eric. Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 244 pp., $25.00, ISBN 0-8014-3574-9 Publication Date: 1998 Craig, Campbell. Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War. New York: Columbia University Press. 216 pp + xiv. $54.50 cloth, $22.50 paper ISBN 0-231-11122-3 cloth ISBN 0-231-11123-1 paper Publication Date: August 1998 Kaplowitz, Donna Rich. Anatomy of a Failed Embargo: U.S. Sanctions against Cuba. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner. 246 pp., $49.95, ISBN 1-55587-616-1 Publication Date: April 1998 Cahn, Anne Hessing. Killing Détente: The Right Attacks the CIA. University Park, PA: Perm State University Press. 232 pp., $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-271-01790-2 cloth ISBN 0-271-01791-0 paper Publication Date: October 1998 CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, Alvarez, Sonia E., Evelina Dagnino, and Arturo Escobar, eds. Cultures of Politics, Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements. Boulder, CO: Westview. 459 pp., $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper ISBN 0-8133-3071-8 cloth ISBN 0-8133-3072-6 paper Publication Date: 1998 Dominguez, Jorge I., ed. International Security and Democracy: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Post-Cold War Era. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 346 pp., $50.00 cloth, $22.95 paper ISBN 0-8229-4054-X cloth ISBN 8-8229-5659-4 paper Publication Date: May 1998 Hartlyn, Jonathan. The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 371 pp., $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-8078-2406-2 cloth ISBN 0-8078-4707-0 paper Publication Date: June 1998 EUROPE/COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES, Young, Ken, and Rao Nirmala. Local Government since 1945. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. 330 pp., $64.95, ISBN 0-631-19581-5 Publication Date: August 1997 Cirtautas, Arista Maria. The Polish Solidarity Movement: Revolution, Democracy, and Natural Rights. New York: Routledge. 324 pp., $85.00, ISBN 0-415-16940-2 Publication Date: 1997 Peris, Daniel. Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 237 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3485-8 Publication Date: 1998 Wanner, Catherine. Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine. University Park, PA: Perm State University Press. 255 pp., $50.00 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-271-01792-0 cloth ISBN 0-271-01793-7 paper Publication Date: October 1998 Strayer, Robert. Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse? Understanding Historical Change. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. 219 pp., $52.95 cloth, $22.95 paper ISBN 0-7656-0003-X cloth ISBN 0-7656-0004-8 paper Publication Date: 1998 Lunge, Thomas, and J. R. Shackleton, eds. The Political Economy of German Unification. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books 200 pp., $45.00, ISBN 1-57181-880-4 Publication Date: 1998 Hefner, Robert W., ed. Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms. Boulder, CO: Westview. 328 pp., $76.00 cloth, $22.00 paper ISBN 0-8133-3359-8 cloth ISBN 0-8133-3360-1 paper Publication Date: February 1998 Schweller, Randall L. Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest. New York: Columbia University Press 267 pp., $57.00 cloth, $21.50 paper ISBN 0-231-11072-3 cloth ISBN 0-231-11073-1 paper Publication Date: April 1998 Stern, Vivien. A Sin against the Future: Imprisonment in the World. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 407 pp., $47.50 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 1-55553-362-0 cloth ISBN 1-55553-361-2 paper Publication Date: October 1998 Weiss, Linda. The Myth of the Powerless State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 196 pp., $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-8014-3547-1 cloth ISBN 0-8014-8543-6 paper Publication Date: May 1998 Wilder, Robert Jay. Listening to the Sea: The Politics of Improving Environmental Protection. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 269 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8229-4059-0 cloth ISBN 0-8229-5663-2 paper Publication Date: September 1998 Finer, S. E. The History of Government from the Earliest Times. New York: Oxford University Press. 1701 pp. (3 vols.), $175.00 ISBN: 0-19-820664-X, 0-19-820665-X, 0-19-820666-X Publication Date: 1997 Tracey, Michael. The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting. New York: Oxford University Press. 295 pp., $77.00 cloth, $29.95 paper ISBN 0-19-815925-0 cloth ISBN 0-19-815924-2 paper Publication Date: March 1998 Chehabi, H. E., and Juan J. Linz, eds. Sultanistic Regimes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 284 pp., $48.00 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8018-5693-0 cloth ISBN 0-8018-5694-9 paper Publication Date: 1998 Peters, B. Guy, and Donald J. Savoie, eds. Taking Stock: Assessing Public Sector Reforms. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 417 pp., $65.00 cloth, $22.95 paper ISBN 0-7735-1742-1 cloth ISBN 0-7735-1743-X paper Publication Date: April 1998 Jonassohn, Kurt, with Karin Solveig Bjornson. Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations in Comparative Perspective. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. 338 pp., $49.95 cloth, $23.96 paper ISBN 1-56000-314-6 cloth ISBN 0-7658-0417-4 paper Publication Date: 1998 Lowry, William R. Preserving Public Lands for the Future: The Politics of Intergenerational Goods. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 297 pp., $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-87840-701-4 cloth ISBN 0-87840-702-2 paper Publication Date: November 1998 Vertzberger, Yaacov Y. I. Risk Taking and Decisionmaking: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 519 pp. + ix, $69.50 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-8047-2747-3 cloth ISBN 0-8047-3168-3 paper Publication Date: April 1998 Fendt, Gene, and David Rozema. Platonic Errors: Plato, a Kind of Poet. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 176 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-313-307-652 Publication Date: December 1998 Conway, David. Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal. New York: St. Martin's 150 pp., $21.95 paper ISBN 0-312-21932-6 paper Publication Date: Summer 1999 Wall, Steven. Liberalism, Perfectionism, and Restraint. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 244 pp., $54.95, ISBN 0-521-62411-8 Publication Date: July 1998 Krehbiel, Keith. Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Law making. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 258 pp., $50.00 cloth, $17.00 paper ISBN 0-226-45271-9 cloth ISBN 0-226-45272-7 paper Publication Date: May 1998 Gunnell, John G. The Orders of Discourse: Philosophy, Social Science, and Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield 252 pp., $68.00 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-8476-9202-7 cloth ISBN 0-8476-9203-5 paper Publication Date: August 1998 Dandeker, Christopher, ed. Nationalism and Violence. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. 224 pp., $34.95, ISBN 1-56000-339-1 Publication Date: 1998 Najita, Tetsuo, ed. Tokugawa Political Writings. New York: Cambridge University Press 156 pp + lxxiii, $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-521-56186-8 cloth ISBN 0-521-56717-3 paper Publication Date: September 1998 Elshtain, Jean Bethke, ed. New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press 81 pp., $14.95 paper ISBN 0-268-01483-3 paper Publication Date: 1998 Vinzant, Janet Coble, and Lane Crothers. Street-Level Leadership: Discretion and Legitimacy in Front-Line Public Service. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 185 pp., $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-87840-704-9 cloth ISBN 0-87840-705-7 paper Publication Date: November 1998 Braithwaite, Valerie, and Margaret Levi, eds. Trust and Governance. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 386 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-87154-134-3 Publication Date: September 1998 Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio. Politics and Uncertainty: Theory, Models, and Applications. New York: Cambridge University Press. 343 pp. + xx, $64.95 cloth, $23.95 paper ISBN 0-521-58121-4 cloth ISBN 0-521-58915-0 paper Publication Date: April 1998 Hoopes, James. Community Denied: The Wrong Turn of Pragmatic Liberalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 192 pp., $32.50, ISBN 0-8014-3500-5 Publication Date: July 1998 Hamburg, G. M., ed. and trans. Liberty, Equality, and the Market: Essays by B. N. Chicherin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 457 pp. + xxxv, $45.00, ISBN 0-300-07232-5 Publication Date: Summer 1999 Ceaser, James W. Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 292 pp., $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07053-5 Publication Date: September 1997 Bashevkin, Sylvia. Women on the Defensive: Living through Conservative Times. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 318 pp., $47.50 cloth, $18.00 paper ISBN 0-226-03883-1 cloth ISBN 0-226-03885-8 paper Publication Date: April 1998 George, Alexander L., and Juliette L. George. Presidential Personality and Performance. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 287 pp., $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper ISBN 0-8133-2590-0 cloth ISBN 0-8133-2591-9 paper Publication Date: January 1998 Knight, Robert H. The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture. Dallas: Spence Publishing Company. 225 pp., $27.95, ISBN 1-890626-05-8 Publication Date: 1998 Graber, Doris, Denis McQuail, and Pippa Norris, eds. The Politics of News, the News of Politics. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press. 268 pp., $39.95 cloth, $27.95 paper ISBN 1-56802-413-4 cloth ISBN 1-56802-412-6 paper Publication Date: March 1998 Masters, Roger D. Fortune Is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History. New York: Free Press. 278 pp., $24.00, ISBN 0-684-84452-4 Publication Date: June 1998 Gladney, Dru C., ed. Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 350 pp., $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8047-3047-4 cloth ISBN 0-8047-3048-2 paper Publication Date: July 1998