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Titles published by Agenda Publishing, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Transcript Publishing, ibidem Press, and Fernwood Publishing, and are available from Columbia only in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the world, please contact each press directly. At War with Government

How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris

Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans’ trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. Political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident—it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19521-8 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19520-1 2021 320 pages

Mass Pardons in America

Rebellion, Presidential Amnesty, and Reconciliation Graham G. Dodds

This book is the first comprehensive study of how presidential mass pardons have helped put domestic insurrections to rest. Graham G. Dodds examines when and why presidents have issued mass pardons and amnesties to deal with domestic rebellion and attempt to reunite the country.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20079-0 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth978-0-231-20078-3 2021 312 pages

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When Good Government Meant Big Government

The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913–1933 Jesse Tarbert

The years after World War I have often been seen as an era when Republican presidents and business leaders brought the growth of government in the United States to a halt. Jesse Tarbert reveals a forgotten effort by businessallied reformers to expand federal power— and how that effort was foiled by Southern Democrats and their political allies.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18973-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18972-9 February 2022 240 pages

Underwater

Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States Rebecca Elliott

Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program, in an incisive consideration of the dilemmas of moral economy underlying insurance.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19027-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19026-8 2021 296 pages

SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

News for the Rich, White, and Blue

How Place and Power Distort American Journalism Nikki Usher

In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18467-0 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18466-3 2021 376 pages 14 illus.

Homeschooling the Right

How Conservative Education Activism Erodes the State Heath Brown

Heath Brown provides a novel analysis of the homeschooling movement and its central role in conservative efforts to shrink the public sector. He traces the aftereffects of the passage of state homeschool policies in the 1980s and the results of ongoing conservative education activism on the broader political landscape.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18881-4 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18880-7 2021 264 pages 29 illus.

Hubert Harrison

The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927 Jeffrey B. Perry

Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist who combined class consciousness and anti-whitesupremacist race consciousness into a potent political radicalism. In this second volume of his acclaimed biography, Jeffrey B. Perry traces the final decade of Harrison’s life, from 1918 to 1927.

$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18263-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18262-1 2020 1,000 pages 58 illus .

Human Relations Commissions

Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City Brian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-Ebers

Brian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-Ebers examine the history and current efforts of human relations commissions in promoting positive intergroup outcomes and enforcing antidiscrimination laws. Drawing on a wide range of theories and methods, they assess policy approaches, successes, and failures in four cities.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19101-2 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19100-5 2020 288 pages 15 illus. Oath Keepers

Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a RightWing Antigovernment Group Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson takes readers inside the world of the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, examining its extensive online presence to discover how it builds support for its goals and actions. He explores how Oath Keepers draws on core American values and pivotal historical moments to cast its adherents as defenders of liberty.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19345-0 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19344-3 2020 240 pages 2 illus.

Pork Barrel Politics

How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era Andrew H. Sidman

In Pork Barrel Politics, Andrew H. Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization affects the electoral influence of district-level federal spending. He argues that it is only when the political world becomes more divided over everything else that the average voter pays attention to pork, linking it to their general preferences over government spending.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19359-7 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19358-0 2019 216 pages .