The New Deal
：A Global History
( America in the World )
Publication subTitle ：A Global History
Publication series ：America in the World
Author： Patel Kiran Klaus
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9781400873623
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691176154
Subject： D0 Political Theory;D034 State institutions;D52 世界政治制度与国家机构;K1 World History;K7 Americas History
Keyword： 世界政治制度与国家机构,国家体制,政治理论,美洲史,世界史
Language： ENG
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Description
The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around the globe—not just in Europe but also in Latin America, Asia, and other parts of the world. Work creation, agricultural intervention, state planning, immigration policy, the role of mass media, forms of political leadership, and new ways of ruling America's colonies—all had parallels elsewhere and unfolded against a backdrop of intense global debates.
By avoiding the distortions of American exceptionalism, Kiran Klaus Patel shows how America's reaction to the Great Depression connected it to the wider world. Among much else, the book explains why the New Deal had enormous repercussions on China; why Franklin D. Roosevelt studied the welfare schemes of Nazi Germany; and why the New Dealers were fascinated by cooperatives in Sweden—but ignored similar schemes in Japan.
Ultimately, Patel argues, the New Deal provided the institutional scaffolding for the construction of American global hegemony in the postwar era, making this history essential for understanding both the New Deal and America's rise to global leadership.
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