The United States As A Developing Nation
Revisiting The Peculiarities Of American History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4162184 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Link (0000-0003-3958-9716, Dartmouth College, corresponding author), Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University of London) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 246 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 269-306 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pastj/gtz032 |
| OpenAlex | W2998292354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
It has recently been suggested that the economic departure of the United States after the Civil War marked a 'Second Great Divergence'. Compared to the 'First', the rise of Britain during the Industrial Revolution, this Second Great Divergence is curiously little understood: because the United States remains the template for modernization narratives, its trajectory is more easily accepted as preordained than interrogated as an unlikely historical outcome. But why should development have been problematic everywhere but the United States? This Viewpoint argues that a robust explanation for the United States's rise is lacking: it can neither be found in an economic history literature focused on factor endowments nor in internalist Americanist historiography, which often reproduces overdetermined accounts of modernization inspired by Max Weber. The most promising avenue of inquiry, we argue, lies in asking how American political institutions configured what should properly be called an American developmental state. Such a perspective opens up a broad comparative research agenda that provincializes the United States from the perspective of development experiences elsewhere
Divergence (linguistics) · Economic history · Historiography · History of the United States · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Vietnam War · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
The spatial lives of a failed idea
Forms of Financing for Productive Investment
French capitalism and the developmental state in the political economy of Michel Chevalier
New Directions in Political History
Les « Américain.e.s » inclassables
Essential Business
To Gild or not to Gild? Revisiting the Transformations of American Capitalism
The reinvention of tradition
Political contestation and the Second Great Divergence
The Fatal Blemish”
Branching Out
Imperial Crucible
The Infrastructural Turn in Historical Scholarship
Provincialising American Capitalism
Pathways to State Capacity
| Citations per year | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |