The early American state "in action" : the federal Marine hospitals, 1789-1860 / Gautham Rao -- Beyond Tocqueville's myth : rethinking the model of the American state / Stephen W. Sawyer -- Inventing the US-Mexico border / C. J. Alvarez -- Rumors of empire : tracking the image of Britain at the dawn of the American century / James T. Sparrow -- The great transformation : the state and the market in the postwar world / Jason Scott Smith -- Governing the child : the state, the family, and the compulsory school in the early twentieth century / Tracy Steffes -- Youth as infrastructure : 4-H and the intimate state in 1920s rural America / Gabriel N. Rosenberg -- Good citizens of a world power : postwar reconfigurations of the obligation to give / Elisabeth Clemens -- The rise of the public religious welfare state : black religion and the negotiation of church/state boundaries during the war on poverty / Omar M. McRoberts -- Private power and American bureaucracy : the state, the EEOC, and civil rights enforcement / Robert C. Lieberman -- From political economy to civil society : Arthur W. Page, corporate philanthropy, and the reframing of the past in post-New Deal America / Richard R. John -- Conclusion : the concept of the state in American history / William J. Novak.