Rewriting the epic of America /Ira Katznelson -- International engagement and American democracy: a comparative perspective / Aristide R. Zolberg -- International commitments and American political institutions in the nineteenth century / Robert O. Keohane -- Flexible capacity: the military and early American statebuilding / Ira Katznelson -- War, trade, and U.S. party politics / Martin Shefter -- Patriotic partnerships: why great wars nourished American civic voluntarism / Theda Skocpol [and others] -- Trade and representation: how diminishing geographic concentration augments protectionist pressures in the U.S. House of Representative / Ronald Rogowski -- International forces and domestic politics: trade policy and institution building in the United States / Judith Goldstein -- American antistatism and the founding of the Cold War state / Aaron L. Friedberg -- Limited wars and the attenuation of the state: soldiers, money, and political communication in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam / Bartholomew H. Sparrow -- Reinventing the American state: political dynamics in the post-Cold War era / Peter A. Gourevitch -- International influences on American political development / Martin Shefter.