{"product_id":"the-reconstruction-of-american-liberalism-18651914","title":"The Reconstruction of American Liberalism  1865-1914","description":"\u003cp\u003eTracing the transformation of liberal political ideology from the end of the Civil War to the early twentieth century  Nancy Cohen offers a new interpretation of the origins and character of modern liberalism. She argues that the values and programs associated with modern liberalism were formulated not during the Progressive Era  as most accounts maintain  but earlier  in the very different social context of the Gilded Age.  Integrating intellectual  social  cultural  and economic history  Cohen argues that the reconstruction of liberalism hinged on the reaction of postbellum liberals to social and labor unrest. As new social movements of workers and farmers arose and phrased their protests in the rhetoric of democratic producerism  liberals retreated from earlier commitments to an expansive vision of democracy. Redefining liberal ideas about citizenship and the state  says Cohen  they played a critical role in legitimating emergent corporate capitalism and politically insulating it from democratic challenge.  As the social cost of economic globalization comes under international critical scrutiny  this book revisits the bitter struggles over the relationship between capitalism and democracy in postCivil War America. The resolution of this problem offered by the new liberalism deeply influenced the progressives and has left an enduring legacy for twentieth-century American politics  Cohen argues.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984653479989,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807853542","price":40.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807853542.jpg?v=1770840702","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-reconstruction-of-american-liberalism-18651914","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}