The near extinction of civic life in American cities has been proclaimed for many years. Today, multiculturalism and political correctness are deemed the villains. Yet in the nineteenth century, at the apex of public processions, ceremonies, and civic celebrations, American citi…
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The near extinction of civic life in American cities has been proclaimed for many years. Today, multiculturalism and political correctness are deemed the villains. Yet in the nineteenth century, at the apex of public processions, ceremonies, and civic celebrations, American citi…
The near extinction of civic life in American cities has been proclaimed for many years. Today, multiculturalism and political correctness are deemed the villains. Yet in the nineteenth century, at the apex of public processions, ceremonies, and civic celebrations, American citi…
The book addresses questions such as: how should historians treat the earlier pasts of each country and the nationalism that guided the nation-building tasks? Where did political culture come in, especially when dealing with modern challenges of class, secularism and ethnicity? …
"[I]ssues of writing contemporary history of Southeast Asia, with particular reference to Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand" - Back cover.
"Rome Reborn on Western Shores examines the literature of the Revolutionary era to explore the ways in which American patriots employed the classics and to assess antiquity's importance to the early political culture of the United States. Where other writers have concentrated on…
"Rome Reborn on Western Shores examines the literature of the Revolutionary era to explore the ways in which American patriots employed the classics and to assess antiquity's importance to the early political culture of the United States. Where other writers have concentrated on…
Introduction-- V.Kononenko The Formation of Russia's Network Directorate-- O.Kryshtanovskaya & S.White Can Medvedev Change Sistema? Informal Networks and Public Administration in Russia-- A.Ledeneva Crooked Hierarchy and Reshuffled Networks: Reforming Russia's Dysfunctional Mili…
"By the last decades of the nineteenth century, more people were making more speeches to greater numbers in a wider variety of venues than at any previous time. This study argues that a recognizably modern public life was created in Victorian Britain largely through the instrume…
The Athenians of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. developed a political system in which power was to a significant extent exercised directly by the citizens at large. The participation of large numbers of citizens was not only encouraged - it was indeed of crucial importance.…
Rebecca Janowitz's portrait of Hyde Park-the Chicago South Side neighborhood long noted for its progressive politics-offers an expert, insider's social and political perspective on this intriguing community that in many ways nurtured Barack Obama's political career and made poss…
This portrait of Hyde Park, the Chicago South Side neighborhood long noted for its progressive politics, explains the dynamics of this intriguing community that in many ways nurtured Barack Obamas's political career and made possible his run for the presidency. Rebecca Janowitz …
The geography of contemporary U.S. political economy has roots that run deep into our past. Earle traces their growth to the seventeenth-century origins of liberalism, republicanism, and financial crises.
"The geography of contemporary U.S. political economy - the relocation of firms toward the Sunbelt and abroad; the decline of manufacturing in the Rust Belt; the rise of footloose producer services; NAFTA-inspired trade flows - has roots that run deep into our past. This innovat…
Eastern Europe ten years after the Cold War.
