...This chapter shows how and why contemporary history became the exclusive realm of party politics. In doing so, it discusses two forms that partisan historiography embraced: the national allegory and Marxist historiography. The first was extremely powerful and popular. The second was an innovative...

...This chapter presents a reinterpretation of the rise and fall of the Workingmen's Party of California (WPC). The WPC has often been interpreted as the eruption of class conflict into mainstream party politics. However, a close narrative analysis of political campaigns in the 1870s suggests...

... external financial position and became partisanized within the new framework of two-party politics that developed simultaneously. Dōshikai Society of Comrades Keynesian policy Kenseikai Constitutional Government Society Minseitō Popular Government Party monetarist policy “negative” retrenchment policy...

...This chapter addresses the rise of Spanish colonial imagery in party politics. The relatively low incidence of racial violence and the tendency to change the subject were both characteristic of New Mexico's so-called race issue. In a period of heightening racial tension, “Spanish-American...