Dr. James Sparrow talks about his newest work, New Leviathan: Sovereign America & the Foundations of Rule in the Atomic Age, on Thursday, April 24, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 242.
Dr. James Sparrow
Sparrow is Associate Professor of U.S. History at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the state and social citizenship in the modern United States, especially the national political culture and its formation within specific social, cultural, and institutional contexts.
His first book, Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government, is a history of the social politics of the national state as its foundations shifted from welfare the warfare during World War II. His newest book project, New Leviathan, examines changing notions and practices of sovereignty during the United States’ rise to globalism. Blending political and intellectual history with social and cultural methodology, it traces the shifting intersections of international and national, global and local levels of power, to explain the modalities of rule at home and abroad that resulted from a world politics made rigid by bipolar nuclear contention.
This event is free and open to the public.
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