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Print Price: $434.50

Format:
Hardback
1000 pp.
7" x 10"

ISBN-13:
9780199754618

Publication date:
April 2012

Imprint: OUP US

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History

Editor-in-chief Donald T. Critchlow and Philip R. VanderMeer
Series Editor: Paul Boyer

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History brings together, in one authoritative reference work, an unparalleled wealth of information about the laws, institutions, and actors that have governed America throughout its history.

Embracing the interconnectedness of politics and law, The Encyclopedia addresses all aspects of both spheres, from presidents and Supreme Court justices to specifics of policy history, critical legislation, and party formation. Entries capture the unique nature of the nation's founding principles embodied in the Constitution, the expansive nature of American democracy, political conflict, and compromise, and the emergence of the modern welfare and regulatory state, all of which evince the tensions, contradictions, and possibilities manifest throughout America's history. Clearly demonstrating how US politics and law have evolved since the colonial era, The Encyclopedia encourages readers to anticipate further changes.

With over 450 articles by expert scholars, each signed entry features numerous cross references and discussion of political and legal history as well as additional sources for further study. This two-volume A-to-Z compendium is a reference work of unparalleled depth and scope and will introduce a new generation of readers to the complexities of this dynamic field of study. It also features extensive cross-referencing, a topical outline, and a subject index.

Readership : College, graduate, scholars in the field, as well as general readers.

List of Articles
Introduction
Preface
Common Abbreviations Used in This Work
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
Topical Outline of Articles
Directory of Contributors
Index

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Donald T. Critchlow is Professor of History at Arizona State University and is also Founding President of the Institute for Political History (2001-present). He was a Panelist for the National Humanities Endowment, Year-Fellowship Program in 2004. He was a Fellow in the Fulbright Scholars Program at the University of Hong Kong from 1997-98 as well as in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1996-97. Among other rewards, Critchlow received an USIA grant for a five volume history of the U. S. published in Polish in 1995. Critchlow's publications include The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History; Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade; America's Promise: A Concise History of the United States; Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America; Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Auto Company, 1852-1963; The Brookings Institution, 1916-1952: Expertise and the Public Interest in a Democratic Society.
Philip R. VanderMeer is Professor of History at Arizona State University. His publications include Phoenix Rising: The Making of A Desert Metropolis; Belief and Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History; and The Hoosier Politician: Officeholding and Political Culture in Indiana 1896-1920.

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History - Editor-in-chief Melvyn Dubofsky
Series Editor Paul Boyer
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History - Editors-in-chief Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott E. Casper
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History - Editor-in-Chief Timothy J. Lynch and General Editor Paul S. Boyer
Editorial board member Christopher Nichols and David Milne
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History - Editor-in-chief Lynn Dumenil
Series Editor Paul Boyer
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology - Editor-in-chief: Hugh Richard Slotten

Special Features

Authoritative, accessible overviews on specific topics and general trends in American political, policy, and legal history.
Over 430 A-Z articles signed by expert scholars.
Covers the course of American political and legal history from its roots in English and European political thought to today.
Topical outline allows readers to search for entries in eleven thematic categories.
Numerous cross references guide readers to related entries.
Selective bibliographies for each entry direct readers to primary sources and important scholarly works, in any language.
Comprehensive index lists all the topics covered in the encyclopedia, including those that are not entry titles themselves.
Expands and updates The Oxford Companion to U.S. History (Paul Boyer, ed.).
Over 200 new articles, in addition to the 240 revised and updated articles from the Companion.

New to this Edition

Key new articles include Elections; Voting; Crime Policy; Water Policy; and Constitutional Law, to name a few.