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Article: The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914
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- Business History Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914. By Nancy Cohen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 318 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82670-7; paper 0-807-85354-2.
With The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, Nancy Cohen joins the cadre of historians who deny that there was an abrupt break between the concerns of the post-Civil War era and those of the early twentieth century. Setting out to uncover the roots of modern liberalism, Cohen believes she found them in the thought of late-nineteenth-century economists and social scientists. Liberal thinkers of the first postwar generation, like E. L. ...