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American political theory
Author_Clyde Barrow
Author_Clyde W. Barrow
Beard's Book
Beard's Economic
Beard's Economic Interpretation
Beard's View
Beard's Work
Beard’s Book
Beard’s Economic
Beard’s Economic Interpretation
Beard’s View
Beard’s Work
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Charles Beard
class conflict analysis
Croce's History
Croce’s History
Economic Interpretation
economic interpretation of US history
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Fol- Lowing
Hegel's Dialectical Idealism
Hegel’s Dialectical Idealism
historical materialism
Industrialist Thesis
institutional economics
Laissez Faire
Laissez Faire Capitalism
Lend Lease Act
National Interest
NIRA
Nomic Interpretation
Phy
Postwar
Public Administration
Ratification Struggle
Realistic Dialectics
state-society relations
United States
Violated
welfare state critique
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- ISBN 9781138512351
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Charles A. Beard (1874-1948) was one of America's most influential historians and political scientists. He played a major role in founding the disciplines of history and political science, helped shape the teaching of social studies in the nation's public schools, and was one the nation's most popular public intellectuals. Yet in the second half of the twentieth century, Beard's reputation has been eroded by relentless criticism. Clyde W. Barrow argues that Beard's work has renewed relevance in light of recent theoretical debates about the new institutionalism, the crisis of the welfare state, and American foreign policy messianism. Barrow's takes Beard seriously as a political theorist, while challenging many misconceptions. For example, Beard's method of economic interpretation has been dismissed as Marxist, but Barrow carefully reconstructs the sources of Beard's thinking to demonstrate that his method owes more to historical and institutional economics and that his concept of state-society relations was in fact derived from Madison's Tenth Federalist. Barrow reconstructs Beard's theory of American political development using his concept of realistic dialectics, which viewed the clash between democracy (Jeffersonianism) and capitalism (Hamiltonianism) as the engine of American political development. During the 1930s, Beard suggested that the United States was making the transition to a higher form of social and industrial democracy that would supersede the contradiction of American political development. Notably, Beard was a critic of the New Deal and the liberal welfare state, because they failed to reconstruct the economic relations that reproduce inequalities of income, status, and power.Beard went on to voice his concern that at crucial junctures in American history, class struggle is diverted into international conflicts as popular leaders back down from a direct confrontation with the dominant capitalist elite. He analyzes American foreign policy as an extension of domestic economic policy and, in particular, a result of the failures of domestic economic policy. Beard's conception of American history plays itself out in a tragic cycle of imperialism and diversion that left him a disenchanted realist. This incisive study will be of interest to those intrested in the evolution of historical thinking.
