Taking Stock

• Foreword Michael J. Lacey; 1. Introduction Morton Keller; Part I. Trade and Tariff Policy: 2. Trade policy in historical perspective Morton Keller; 3. The triumph of liberal trade David Vogel; Part II. Immigrants and Aliens: 4. The progressive state and the legacy of collective immigrant identities Reed Ueda; 5. The racialization of immigration policy Peter Skerry; Part III. Conservation and Environmentalism: 6. The many faces of conservation: natural resources and the American state, 1900–1940 Donald J. Pisani; 7. Risky business: government and the environment after earth day R. Shep Melnick; Part IV. Civil Rights: 8. Since 1964: the paradox of American Civil Rights regulation Hugh Davis Graham; 9. You win some, you lose some: explaining patterns of success and failure in the second reconstruction Jennifer L. Hochschild; Part V. Social Welfare: 10. From beginning to end: has twentieth-century US social policy come full circle? Theda Skocpol; 11. Conclusion: governing more but enjoying it less R. Shep Melnick.

"The essays are uniformly well written and insightful. Taking Stock should be of interest to a wide range of scholars including political scientists, historians, students of American studies, sociologists, and scholars interested in public policy." Choice