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AS STATE GOVERNMENT SPENDING HAS INCREASED AND STATE ECONOMIC HEALTH HAS BECOME CRUCIAL, STATE POLICY DECISIONS HAVE COME TO HAVE STRONG ECONOMIC IMPACTS. RESULTS OF ANALYSIS SHOWS THAT STATE GOVERNMENT SPENDING HAS VERY DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENT IMPACTS.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: "An Exceedingly Dirty and Nasty People" -- Chapter 2: War Comes to Maine -- Chapter 3: "A Mongrel Breed of Soldier" -- Chapter 4: War Afloat -- Chapter 5: "Wicked War" -- Chapter 6: "Hampden Races" -- Chapter 7: "One against Another" -- Chapter 8: Yankee Confusion -- Chapter 9: Winter of Discontent -- Chapter 10: Après la Guerre -- Partings -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Back Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- My Road to Kyiv -- Building Ukraine, From the Hetmans to Maidan -- Corruption 101: My Introduction to Ukrainian Realities -- Kyiv's Tug-of-War: Putin Tilts the Balance -- Blood-Stained Granite -- Maidan's Poetics Versus Steel Shields and Black Helmets -- Rules of Dictatorship, Fires of Resistance -- Who Benefits From Whipping Up Hysteria in Our Quiet Little Crimea? -- Three Days in Hell: February 18-20, 2014 -- The Kremlin Fog Machine Hits Overdrive -- Stealing Simferopol -- Locking Down Crimea -- Prying Open the East -- Shockwaves of Terror in Donbas -- The Lie Metastasizes -- Epilogue -- Index -- Back Cover.

"After the Revolutionary War ended, the new American nation grappled with a question about its identity: Were the states sovereign entities or subordinates to a powerful federal government? The War of 1812 brought this vexing issue into sharp relief, as a national government intent on waging an unpopular war confronted a populace in Massachusetts that was vigorously opposed to it. Maine, which at the time was part of Massachusetts, served as the battleground in this political struggle. Joshua M. Smith recounts an innovative history of the war, focusing on how it specifically affected what was then called the District of Maine. Drawing on archival materials from the United States, Britain, and Canada, Smith exposes the bitter experience of Maine's citizens during that conflict as they endured multiple hardships, including starvation, burdensome taxation, smuggling, treason, and enemy occupation. War's inherent miseries, along with a changing relationship between regional and national identities, gave rise to a statehood movement that rejected a Boston-centric worldview in favor of a broadly American identity"--

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- PLAYAS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT -- CHAPTER 1. WHAT IS A PLAYA? -- CHAPTER 2. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT -- ECOSYSTEM ASPECTS -- CHAPTER 3. FLORA -- CHAPTER 4. FAUNA -- CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, AND DIVERSITY -- CONSERVATION ASPECTS -- CHAPTER 6. HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, AND CURRENT SOCIETAL VALUE OF PLAYAS -- CHAPTER 7. THREATS TO PROPER FUNCTION OF PLAYAS -- CHAPTER 8. CONSERVATION PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- INDEX