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"Les dénonciations inquiètes du populisme sont monnaie courante depuis longtemps. Mais elles ont tourné à la panique générale lorsque le populisme a été perçu comme l’arme secrète derrière l’improbable candidature présidentielle du milliardaire télégénique Donald Trump. Le populisme passait aussi pour la mystérieuse force expliquant les succès d’audience de Bernie Sanders ou d’autres leaders de gauche. « Populisme » était également le nom du délire collectif qui avait infligé le Brexit au Royaume-Uni. En fait, dès qu’on prenait la peine de regarder, on voyait un peu partout dans le monde les classes dirigeantes se faire étriller par des trublions sans qualification. Les populistes trompaient les gens sur la mondialisation. Les populistes disaient du mal des élites. Les populistes bouleversaient les institutions politiques traditionnelles. Et les démocraties prenaient fin parce qu’elles étaient trop démocratiques. Il était temps pour les élites de se lever contre les masses ignorantes… Reprenant plus d’un siècle d’histoire du populisme et de l’antipopulisme, Thomas Frank montre ce que cette opposition révèle : la défiance des classes cultivées pour la démocratie dès lors qu’elle ne fait plus barrage à l'expression des intérêts d’un peuple qui ne reste pas à sa place."

Populism --- Political culture --- Social movements --- Democracy --- History --- Populisme. --- Populisme --- Populism - United States - History --- Political culture - United States - History --- Social movements - United States - History --- Democracy - United States - History

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This is a sweeping new interpretation of the national experience, reconceiving key political events from the Revolution to the New Deal. Rana begins by emphasizing that the national founding was first and foremost an experiment in settler colonization. For American settlers, internal self-government involved a unique vision of freedom, which combined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this independence was based on ideas of extensive land ownership which helped to sustain both territorial conquest and the subordination of slaves and native peoples. At the close of the nineteenth century, emerging social movements struggled to liberate the potential of self-rule from these oppressive and exclusionary features. These efforts ultimately collapsed, in large part because white settlers failed to conceive of liberty as a truly universal aspiration. The consequence was the rise of new modes of political authority that presented national and economic security as society’s guiding commitments. Rana contends that the challenge for today’s reformers is to recover a robust notion of independence and participation from the settler experience while finally making it universal.

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Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Whereas previous studies have engaged with conspiracy theories within national frameworks only, this collection of essays draws attention to the fact that conspiracist visions are transnational narratives that travel between and connect different cultures. It focuses on the United States and the Middle East because these two regions of the world are entangled in manifold ways and conspiracy theories are currently extremely prominent in both. The contributors to the volume are scholars of Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology, History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, and American Studies, who approach the subject from a variety of different theories and methodologies. However, all of them share the fundamental assumption that conspiracy theories must not be dismissed out of hand or ridiculed. Usually wrong and frequently dangerous, they are nevertheless articulations of and distorted responses to needs and anxieties that must be taken seriously. Focusing on individual case studies and displaying a high sensitivity for local conditions and the cultural environment, the essays offer a nuanced image of the workings of conspiracy theories in the United States and the Middle East.

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The American labor movement seemed poised on the threshold of unparalleled success at the beginning of the post-World War II era. Fourteen million strong in 1946, unions represented thirty five percent of non-agricultural workers. Why then did the gains made between the 1930's and the end of the war produce so few results by the 1960's? This collection addresses the history of labor in the postwar years by exploring the impact of the global contest between the United States and the Soviet Union on American workers and labor unions. The essays focus on the actual behavior of Americans in their diverse workplaces and communities during the Cold War. Where previous scholarship on labor and the Cold War has overemphasized the importance of the Communist Party, the automobile industry, and Hollywood, this book focuses on politically moderate, conservative workers and union leaders, the medium-sized cities that housed the majority of the population, and the Roman Catholic Church. These are all original essays that draw upon extensive archival research and some upon oral history sources.

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