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Douglas A. Blackmon: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas W. Rae: City: Urbanism and Its End
Joseph Crespino: In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Byron E. Shafer: The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South
David M. P. Freund: Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Matthew D. Lassiter: The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Paul Frymer: Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
Daniel J. Hulsebosch: Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830 (Studies in Legal History)
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore: Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
Gary Taubes: Good Calories, Bad Calories
Brian McGinty: Lincoln and the Court
Rick Perlstein: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Steven M. Teles: The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
Patrick O. Cohrs: The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919-1932
H. A. Drake: Constantine and the Bishops : The Politics of Intolerance
Hans Blumenberg: The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
E. C. Pielou: After the Ice Age : The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
Zara Steiner: The Lights That Failed: European International History 1919-1933
Michael J. Graetz: Death by a Thousand Cuts : The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (Editors): Unequal Chances : Family Background and Economic Success
Michael X. Delli Carpini: What Americans Know About Politics and Why It Matters
Michael Lipsky: Street Level Bureaucracy
Jeffrey Pressman: Implementation
James Q. Wilson: Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It
Theda Skocpol: Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life
Leonard Dupee White: The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History (Vol.1 of 4 Volumes, also Jeffersonians, Jacksonians and later periods)
Paul A. C. Koistinen: Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare (Vol. 1 of 4 Volumes 1606-1945)
Christian P. Robert: The Bayesian Choice: From Decision-Theoretic Foundations to Computational Implementation (Springer Texts in Statistics)
T. Hastie: The Elements of Statistical Learning
Manuel Arellano: Panel Data Econometrics
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge: Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data
Hugh Davis Graham: The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972
Ian Hacking: The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About robability, Induction and Statistical Inference
Elisabeth Jean Wood: Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
Gil Merom: How Democracies Lose Small Wars : State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam
Timothy B. Smith: France in Crisis : Welfare, Inequality, and Globalization since 1980
David Anderson: Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
Caroline Elkins: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of the End of Empire in Kenya
Rodney Stark: The Rise of Christianity
DAVID DUNGAN: A History of the Synoptic Problem
H. J. Habakkuk: Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership 1650-1950
Richard Saumarez Smith: Rule by Records: Land Registration and Village Custom in Early British Panjab
Julian E. Zelizer: On Capitol Hill : The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000
Glenn W. Fisher: The Worst Tax?: A History of the Property Tax in America
Jack L. Goldsmith: The Limits of International Law
A. W. Brian Simpson: Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention
Joel S. Migdal: Strong Societies and Weak States
Lynn T. White: Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution
Kathryn Edin: Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work
Andrea Louise Campbell: How Policies Make Citizens : Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State
Kenneth T. Jackson: Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Michael J. Klarman: From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Laurence H. Tribe: American Constitutional Law
Andrew Moravcsik: The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht
Mark J. Roe: Strong Managers, Weak Owners
Mark J. Roe: Political Determinants of Corporate Governance
Reinier Kraakman: The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach
Joel Seligman: The Transformation of Wall Street: A History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate Finance
Scott C. James: Presidents, Parties, and the State : A Party System Perspective on Democratic Regulatory Choice, 1884-1936
Richard F. Hamm: Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
William J. Novak: The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America
Stuart Banner: Anglo-American Securities Regulation : Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860
Herbert Hovenkamp: Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937
Philip Selznick: Law & Society in Transition: Toward Responsive Law
Harry N. Scheiber: Ohio Canal Era: A Case Study of Government and the Economy, 1820-1861, With a New Preface
Lucas A., Jr. Powe: The Warren Court and American Politics
Martha F. Davis: Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973
Howard Gillman: The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence
Barry Cushman: Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Consititional Revolution
David Plotke: Building a Democratic Political Order : Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s
George I. Lovell: Legislative Deferrals : Statutory Ambiguity, Judicial Power, and American Democracy
Doug McAdam: Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Jeff Goodwin: No Other Way Out : States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991
Philip A. Kuhn: Origins of the Modern Chinese State
Philip A Kuhn: Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China: Militarization and Social Structure, 1796-1864
Mary Elizabeth Berry: Hideyoshi
John D. Huber: Deliberate Discretion? : The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy
John D. Huber: Rationalizing Parliament : Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France
Ernest Gellner: Plough, Sword, and Book : The Structure of Human History
Ernest Gellner: Nations and Nationalism
Jacob S. Hacker: The Divided Welfare State : The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States
Martin Shefter: Political Parties and the State
Adam D. Sheingate: The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State
Theodore J. Lowi: The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States
Theodore J. Lowi: The Personal President: Power Invested, Promised Unfulfilled
William G. Howell: Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action
John R. Zaller: The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Richard F. Fenno: Home Style: House Members in Their Districts
Richard F. Fenno: Congress at the Grassroots: Representational Change in the South, 1970 -1998
Michele Lamont: The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
Jim Mann: Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet
Robert H. Wiebe: Self-Rule : A Cultural History of American Democracy
Ezra N. Suleiman: Dismantling Democratic States
Thomas Ertman: Birth of the Leviathan : Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Brian Downing: The Military Revolution and Political Change
Elisabeth S. Clemens: The People's Lobby : Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925
Julian E. Zelizer: Taxing America : Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975
William E. Forbath: Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement
William E. Nelson: The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine
William E. Nelson: The Legalist Reformation: Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920-1980
William E. Nelson: Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change of Massachusetts Society, 1760-1830
James Q. Whitman: Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe
Edward A., Jr. Purcell: Litigation and Inequality: Federal Diversity Jurisdiction in Industrial America, 1870-1958
Christopher L. Tomlins: The State and the Unions : Labor Relations, Law and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880-1960
P. S. Atiyah: Rise & Fall of Freedom of Contract
Paul W. Schroeder: The Transformation of European Politics 1763-1848
Ronald Robinson: Africa and the Victorians
Morton J. Horwitz: Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
John Maynard Smith: Evolution of Sex
Ullica Segerstrale: Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate
Don E. Fehrenbacher: The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
Elizabeth Sanders: Roots of Reform : Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917
Stephen Skowronek: Building a New American State : The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities
Hew Strachan: The First World War: To Arms
William Saletan: Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War

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