Bibliography - Context and Historical Sources

(for historical sources and context specifically related to education and education policy, please see http://edpolicy-dissertationjourney.blogspot.com/2011/05/bibliography-educational-context-and.html)

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Bailyn, B. (1992). The ideological origins of the American Revolution. New York: Belknap Press.

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Gomez, M. (1998). Exchanging our county marks: The transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Goodman, D. (1992). Public sphere and private life: Toward a synthesis of current historiographical approaches to the Old Regime. History and Theory, 31, 1-20.

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Katz, M. (Ed.) (1993). The “Underclass” debate: Views from history. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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Katznelson, I. (1989). Was the Great Society a lost opportunity? In S. Fraser and G. Gerstle (Eds.), The rise and fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (pp. 185-211). Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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Lieberman, R. (1998). Shifting the color line: Race and the American welfare state. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Massey, D. (1993). American apartheid: Segregation and the making of the underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Pope Melish, J. (1998).  Disowning slavery: Gradual emancipation and “race” in New England, 1780-1860.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Quadagno, J. (1994). The color of welfare: How racism undermined the war on poverty. New York: Oxford University Press.


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Scott, D. (1997). Contempt and pity: Social policy and the image of the damaged black psyche. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Sugrue, T. (1995). The origins of the urban crisis: Race and inequality in postwar Detroit. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Tyler, A. (1944).  Freedom’s ferment: Phases of American social history to 1860. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Wilentz, S. (2004).  Chants democratic: New York and the rise of the American working class, 1788-1850. New York: Oxford University Press.