Sean P. Cunningham

American Politics in the Postwar Sunbelt

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the political culture of the American Sunbelt since the end of World War II.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781107024526
• ISBN-10: 1107024528
• Artikelnr.: 41023986

Autorenporträt

Sean P. Cunningham is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University. A decorated teacher, he holds a PhD in Modern American History from the University of Florida and teaches broadly in twentieth-century US history, while specializing in the history of post-1945 American political culture. His first book, Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right, was published in 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: what is the Sunbelt ... and why is it important? 1. Convergence, metropolitanization, and anticommunism
2. Race, rights, and the liberal consensus
3. Wars against liberalism
4. Southern, suburban, and Sunbelt strategies
5. Mobilizing the religious right in the politicized 'Bible Belt'
6. Reagan's Sunbelt, Reagan's America
7. Shades of red, shades of blue
Epilogue. Sunbelt politics in the twenty-first century.