Government regulation of the railroads is probably the most important example of federal intervention in the economy from the Civil War to World War I. It is also a key to an assessment of the impulses and motives behind Progressivism. In Railroads and Regulation, Gabriel Kolko presents a case study of the relationship of the economy to the political process in the United States during the years from 1877 to 1916.
The author discusses the extent to which the railroad industry encouraged and relied on national political solutions--such as the creation of the first significant...
Government regulation of the railroads is probably the most important example of federal intervention in the economy from the Civil War to World Wa...
Over the last three decades the historian Gabriel Kolko has redefined the way we look at modern warfare and its social and political effects. "Century of War" gives us a masterly synthesis of the effects of war on civilian populations and the political results of these traumatizing experiences in the twentieth century.
Over the last three decades the historian Gabriel Kolko has redefined the way we look at modern warfare and its social and political effects. "Cent...
The author argues in this text, that victory in 1975 caught the Communists wholly unprepared to cope with the reconstruction of the war-torn nation. The text looks at the economic programme the Communist Party has embarked upon since 1986 and describes the decline of its socialist ideology and transition to nascent capitalism. Based on research and first-hand experience, the text offers a portrait of the profound dilemmas the nation confronts today. Market reforms are producing serious social and economic difficulties in Vietnam; inequality is creating a class society and industrial workers...
The author argues in this text, that victory in 1975 caught the Communists wholly unprepared to cope with the reconstruction of the war-torn nation. T...
Does socialism have a future in the world of the twenty-first century? If not, what is the future for progressive politics?
This is a major contribution to contemporary social and political thought written by one of the world's leading critical historians. Gabriel Kolko ask the difficult questions about where the left can go in a post-Cold War world where neoliberal policies appear to have triumphed in both the West and the former Soviet bloc. In trying to answer this, he interrogates both the origins and development of socialist ideas and the contemporary dynamics of the globalized...
Does socialism have a future in the world of the twenty-first century? If not, what is the future for progressive politics?
This examination of the relationship of the economy to political process in the United States from 1877 to 1916 shows how the railroad industry encouraged and relied on national politics to solve its economic problems, and created a precedent for government regulation of the economy in the twentieth century. The continuity in governmental regulation from 1877 to 1900, in the Progressive Era, and in the administrations of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson are pointed out. The origin of each major federal railroad act and contending forces is analyzed. Federal regulation of the railroads, probably...
This examination of the relationship of the economy to political process in the United States from 1877 to 1916 shows how the railroad industry enc...
Does socialism have a future in the world of the twenty-first century? If not, what is the future for progressive politics?
This is a major contribution to contemporary social and political thought written by one of the world's leading critical historians. Gabriel Kolko ask the difficult questions about where the left can go in a post-Cold War world where neoliberal policies appear to have triumphed in both the West and the former Soviet bloc. In trying to answer this, he interrogates both the origins and development of socialist ideas and the contemporary dynamics of the globalized...
Does socialism have a future in the world of the twenty-first century? If not, what is the future for progressive politics?
