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The “Myth” of the Weak American State
October 23, 2009 @ 12:00 am
Professor Novak, who is also a research professor at the American Bar Foundation, works in the fields of U.S. legal, political, and intellectual history. His first book first book, The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America, used nineteenth-century state court records to document the long history of governmental activism in the United States. His next book is The Creation of the Modern American State.
A copy of his presentation can be downloaded from the Center for the Study of Work,
Labor, and Democracy’s web site at:
https://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/labor/speakers.
Professor Novak will speak on Friday, October 23 at 1 p.m. in Humanities and Social Science Building, Room 4041. Sandwiches will be served.
Future talks in the series:
Christopher McAuley, UCSB, November 6, “Shaping Max Weber and W.E.B.
DuBois: Scholarship, Politics, and Protection.”
Mark Hendrickson, UCSD, November 20, “‘New Capitalism:’ Rights,
Expectations, and Fairness in the New Era Economy.”
This talk is sponsored by the Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy. For more information contact Leah Fernandez.
jwil 01.x.2009, hm 10/19