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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.

International relations --- Economic policy --- Depressions --- New Deal, 1933-1939. --- New Deal, 1933-1939 --- Great Depression, 1929 --- Stock Market Crash, 1929 --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- History --- American exceptionalism. --- American politics. --- American society. --- China. --- Great Depression. --- New Deal. --- Roosevelt administration. --- World War II. --- capitalism. --- cooperatives. --- democracy. --- domestic policy. --- economic nationalism. --- economic policy. --- economic reform. --- economic regulation. --- eugenics. --- foreign relations. --- global connections. --- global hegemony. --- global leadership. --- individualism. --- international relations. --- masculinity. --- parochialism. --- protectionism. --- recession. --- security. --- social control. --- statism. --- welfare schemes.

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Franklin Roosevelt's intentions during the three years between Munich and Pearl Harbor have been a source of controversy among historians for decades. Barbara Farnham offers both a theory of how the domestic political context affects foreign policy decisions in general and a fresh interpretation of FDR's post-Munich policies based on the insights that the theory provides. Between 1936 and 1938, Roosevelt searched for ways to influence the deteriorating international situation. When Hitler's behavior during the Munich crisis showed him to be incorrigibly aggressive, FDR settled on aiding the democracies, a course to which he adhered until America's entry into the war. This policy attracted him because it allowed him to deal with a serious problem: the conflict between the need to stop Hitler and the domestic imperative to avoid any risk of American involvement in a war. Because existing theoretical approaches to value conflict ignore the influence of political factors on decision-making, they offer little help in explaining Roosevelt's behavior. As an alternative, this book develops a political approach to decision-making which focuses on the impact that awareness of the imperatives of the political context can have on decision-making processes and, through them, policy outcomes. It suggests that in the face of a clash of central values decision-makers who are aware of the demands of the political context are likely to be reluctant to make trade-offs, seeking instead a solution that gives some measure of satisfaction to all the values implicated in the decision.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. --- Munich Four-Power Agreement (1938) --- United States --- Germany --- Foreign relations --- Case studies. --- Decision making --- Acceptability. --- Aid to democracies. --- Airpower. --- Appeasement. --- Authoritarian government. --- Behavioral Decision Theory. --- Belief systems. --- Berchtesgaden. --- Blockade. --- Bolstering. --- Buck-passing. --- Bureaucratic politics. --- Charlottesville Program. --- Cognitive effort. --- Compromise. --- Consensus. --- Consistency. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Decision rules. --- Democratic peace. --- Diesing, Paul. --- Dror, Yehezkel. --- Emerson, William. --- Europe. --- France. --- George, Alexander. --- Godesberg meeting. --- Good Neighbor Policy. --- Haglund, David. --- Helium controversy. --- Hull, Cordell. --- Hyde Park meetings. --- Incrementalism. --- Interventionists. --- Isolationism. --- Jouaux, Leon. --- Keynes, John Maynard. --- Levels of analysis. --- Lindsay, Sir Ronald. --- Lothian, Lord. --- Nine Power Conference. --- Opportunity costs. --- Optimizing. --- Plausibility probe. --- Policy analysts. --- Rainbow Plans. --- Rearmament. --- Roosevelt administration. --- Search-design continuum. --- neutrality.

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Josephine Roche (1886-1976) was a progressive activist, New Deal policymaker, and businesswoman. As a pro-labor and feminist member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, she shaped the founding legislation of the U.S. welfare state and generated the national conversation about health-care policy that Americans are still having today. In this gripping biography, Robyn Muncy offers Roche's persistent progressivism as evidence for surprising continuities among the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society.Muncy explains that Roche became the second-highest-ranking woman in the New Deal government after running a Colorado coal company in partnership with coal miners themselves. Once in office, Roche developed a national health plan that was stymied by World War II but enacted piecemeal during the postwar period, culminating in Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s. By then, Roche directed the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund, an initiative aimed at bolstering the labor movement, advancing managed health care, and reorganizing medicine to facilitate national health insurance, one of Roche's unrealized dreams.In Relentless Reformer, Muncy uses Roche's dramatic life story-from her stint as Denver's first policewoman in 1912 to her fight against a murderous labor union official in 1972-as a unique vantage point from which to examine the challenges that women have faced in public life and to reassess the meaning and trajectory of progressive reform.

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