More Than a Historian: The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A. Beard
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765800276 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 289 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above.” —P. Beard found that the important question facing democracies was whether planning would be conducted by private corporations, state technology, or some democratically accountable form of economic governance… Those who do not read Beard should read Barrow's interpretation of Beard. Barrows history of Beard gives us ample reason finally to read it or read it again." —American Political Science Review "As Clyde Barrow's fine book demonstrates, Beard's emphasis on the connection between political ideas and policies and social and economic structure, as well as his courage and maverick political temperament, have much to offer critical and left social scientists." —New Political Science "Clyde Barrow has created a rich booka careful, contextual, historically situated set of chapters analyzing Beard's ideas on history, political econom
His works include More than a Historian: The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A. Barrow is Chancellor Professor in the Policy Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth where he also serves as director of the Center of Policy Analysis. . Clyde W. Beard, Economic Impacts of the Textile and Apparel Industries in Massac
Barrow's takes Beard seriously as a political theorist, while challenging many misconceptions. This incisive study will be of interest to those intrested in the evolution of historical thinking.. Beard (1874-1948) was one of America's most influential historians and political scientists. Charles A. 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. 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. Clyde W. 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. 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. He analyzes American foreign policy as an extension of domestic economic policy and, in particular, a result of the failures of domesti
M. Swanson said The Most Important American Historian of the "The Most Important American Historian of the 20th Century" according to M. Swanson. When I was in graduate school Charles Beard was one of the figures that everyone loved to trash, but no one had ever read. Professors and their nodding students constantly pointed at Beard as an example of "determinism" or "reductionism" - someone who used a method of analysis that they politically did not agree with. Unfortunately, the current trend in academic history is to scorn any theoretical analysis at all and i. 0th Century. When I was in graduate school Charles Beard was one of the figures that everyone loved to trash, but no one had ever read. Professors and their nodding students constantly pointed at Beard as an example of "determinism" or "reductionism" - someone who used a method of analysis that they politically did not agree with. Unfortunately, the current trend in academic history is to scorn any theoretical analysis at all and i. "Five Stars" according to Randall Ivey. Fine!