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Discussion with Steven Hahn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Martin J. Sklar
Affiliation:
Bucknell University

Extract

I wish to thank Steven Hahn for helping me to think more critically about some of my own ideas and those of others. The substantive questions that he raises will be subject matter for vital ongoing inquiry and thinking among interested scholars for some time to come. He has also raised some very important questions of method that provide the occasion to extend the discussion, briefly, in ways that readers may find of interest, as I do. In what follows, I confine myself to some of the questions of method.

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References

1. “Periodization and Historiography: The United States Considered as a Developing Country,” in my forthcoming book, The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s (New York: Cambridge University Press).

2. Likewise, the work of such colleagues of Hahn as are included as authors in The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation, note 3 of Hahn's essay, above. One small notation here for the record: I do not believe that the “supremacy of society over the state” explains “the eventual triumph of New Deal liberalism,” or for that matter of “corporate liberalism” more broadly; only that it is an essential component of such liberalism, and that both the component and the liberalism need to be further explained by continued study.