The G.I. Bill

AvKathleen J. Frydl

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

Scholars have argued about U.S. state development - in particular its laggard social policy and weak institutional capacity - for generations. Neo-institutionalism has informed and enriched these debates, but, as yet, no scholar has reckoned with a very successful and sweeping social policy designed by the federal government: the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the GI Bill. Kathleen J. Frydl addresses the GI Bill in this study based on systematic and comprehensive use of the records of the Veterans Administration. Frydl's research situates the Bill squarely in debates about institutional development, social policy and citizenship, and political legitimacy. It demonstrates the multiple ways in which the GI Bill advanced federal power and social policy, and, at the very same time, limited its extent and its effects.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-03-23
Mått:160 x 234 x 28 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:396
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521514248
Utmärkelser:Louis Brownlow Book Award 2010

Utforska kategorier

Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Kathleen J. Frydl has been an Assistant Professor in the History department at the University of California, Berkeley, since 2003. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2000, she worked at the National Academy of Sciences for three years before moving to the west coast. She has held academic awards from the University of Chicago, the Mellon Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation.

Recensioner i media

Review of the hardback: 'Kathleen Frydl's history of the G.I. Bill illuminates both the legislation itself and the way Congress operated in the mid-1940s. She has also fused her study of the political history of the Act to an examination of its social and cultural origins and effects as it became, in popular parlance, the G.I. Bill of Rights. It is an exceptionally impressive work of scholarship.' Alan Brinkley, Columbia University

Innehållsförteckning

1. The roots of the GI Bill; 2. The GI Bill; 3. Fall from grace; 4. Scandal and the GI Bill; 5. African-American veterans; 6. Housing; 7. Higher education.