How States Shaped Postwar America - Nicholas Dagen Bloom

How States Shaped Postwar America

State Government and Urban Power
Buch | Hardcover
392 Seiten
2019
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-49831-7 (ISBN)
38,65 inkl. MwSt
The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and '70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, and the environment. Bloom centers his story on the example set by New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose aggressive initiatives on the pressing issues in that period inspired others and led to the establishment of long-lived state polices in an age of decreasing federal power. Metropolitan areas, for both better and worse, changed and operated differently because of sustained state action--How States Shaped Postwar America uncovers the scope of this largely untold story.

Nicholas Dagen Bloom is associate professor of history at New York Institute of Technology.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 47 halftones, 2 line drawings
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-226-49831-X / 022649831X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-49831-7 / 9780226498317
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