Gary Gerstle

I’m Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge.

I study American history. I'm particularly interested in immigration, race and nationality. I'm interested in politics and I'm interested in power: who has it in America and who doesn’t.

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Publications

Gerstle, G., Lichtenstein, N., & O'Connor, A. (Eds.). (2019). Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Gerstle, G. (2018). The Rise and Fall(?) of America’s Neoliberal Order. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 28, 241–264.
Gerstle, G. (2017). American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton University Press.
Gerstle, G. (2016). Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present. Princeton University Press.
Gerstle, G. (2014). Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Making of American Nationality. In R. H. Bayor (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity (pp. 144–165). Oxford Handbooks Online.
Fraser, S., & Gerstle, G. (Eds.). (2005). Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy. Harvard University Press.

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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order America and the World in the Free Market Era

Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century

Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present

States of Exception

Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy