Inicio > Sociedad y ciencias sociales > Política y gobierno > The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier
The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier

The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier

Daniel Elazar

267,73 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2017
Materia
Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9781138534766
267,73 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Sobre IBD

The period from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s signaled the end of the prosperity of the postwar years enjoyed by the cities of the prairie-those cities located immediately within or adjacent to the Mississippi River drainage system, or what is usually called the American Heartland

Artículos relacionados

  • How Great a Crime - to tell the truth
    Neil Kay / Steven Kay
    Joseph Gales was one of the all-time great Sheffielders – forget Joe Cocker, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sean Bean or Michael Palin. These are all minnows compared to Joseph Gales – and their stories are boring besides that of the Galeses. The Galeses story has been forgotten and has not been brought together in one place before – it is not just something dredged up from history – an i...
    Disponible

    10,33 €

  • Fearful Majesty
    Benson Bobrick
    Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time.This acclaimed biography of one of Russia’s most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also surprisingly timely, revealing how many of the issues Russia faces today hav...
    Disponible

    19,27 €

  • Economic Optimization of Innovation & Risk
    Robert Shuler
    A Theory of Crash Rate for Private & Public Projects with Critical or non-Critical systems.Analyzing & managing risk has been a quest for 5000 years, and is essential to everything from water supplies, finance, and agriculture to computers and space travel. At last there is a quantitative theory and a simple equation that allows you to: - choose your failure rate - get there...
    Disponible

    13,02 €

  • The System
    Lincoln Steffens
    The 'muckraker' Lincoln Steffens dug deep into business criminality and political corruption in a powerful series of articles written for McClure's magazine. Establishment newspapers and 'System' politicians dismissed his work as just another example of the decrepit modern journalism that could never pass for genuine writing. But Steffens' dogged quest for truth and justice set...
    Disponible

    23,66 €

  • Digital Activism in Asia Reader
    The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political acts that transform the citizen from being a beneficiary of change to becoming an agent of change. In co-shaping these changes, what the digit...
    Disponible

    22,19 €

  • The New Freedom
    Woodrow Wilson
    In 1912, Woodrow Wilson was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. He campaigned against the Republican incumbent, William Howard Taft, and Taft’s predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, who had split off from the Republican Party to form his own Progressive, or Bull Moose, Party. Much of the campaign focused on the US economy, particularly the candidates’ views of...
    Disponible

    8,67 €

Otros libros del autor

  • The Metropolitan Frontier and American Politics
    Daniel Elazar
    The Metropolitan Frontier and American Politics was begun in the late 1950s under the auspices of the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs as a study of the eight 'lesser' metropolitan areas in Illinois.  This text will be of great interest to students of politics, American history and ethnography. ...
    Disponible

    239,61 €

  • Kinship in the Admiralty Islands
    Daniel Elazar
    The Manus of New Guinea’s Pere village were Margaret Mead’s most favored community, the people to whom she returned five times before she died in 1978 ...
    Disponible

    169,53 €

  • Covenant and Civil Society
    Daniel Elazar
    The essence of the covenant tradition is the idea of human beings freely associating for common purposes through pacts of mutual commitment ...
    Disponible

    103,56 €

  • Covenant and Commonwealth
    Daniel Elazar
    At the very beginning of the history of the covenant idea, human beings were conceived as entering into a morally grounded and informal pact with God ...
    Disponible

    106,29 €

  • Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel
    Daniel Elazar
    In this first volume of a trilogy, Daniel J. Elazar addresses political uses of the idea of covenant, the tradition that has adhered to that idea, and the political arrangements that flow from it ...
    Disponible

    89,66 €

  • Covenant and Civil Society
    Daniel Elazar
    The essence of the covenant tradition is the idea of human beings freely associating for common purposes through pacts of mutual commitment. In the political realm, the idea of covenant has been particularly influential in frontierlands. Reinformed by the idea of the federated commonwealth that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation, covenant eventually fostered the establis...
    Disponible

    267,24 €