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One of the last Prussian Reforms during the Napoleonic Era was the constitution of local autonomy for the cities. Proof of its lasting importance is that it was the cities that carried out the deficit-based employment policies of the early 1930s also had to carry the burden of a democratic reconstitution of Germany in the postwar period. After the crushing defeat at Napoleon's hands, likewise the reconstitution of Prussia fell to the cities. Today, the same constellation of problems can be found on different stages. Europe, as it is growing together, faces a democracy deficit which ultimately

The defining feature of modern society is change - it never rests or provides its members or researchers the comfort and certainty of having attained an adequate understanding of its operations, how it functions, or where it is. Society in Flux: Two Centuries of Social Theory traces how tensions between order, process, structure and agency, and modes of analyzing them have evolved over the last two centuries. Understanding that modern society is perpetually in flux, albeit not across the board, but in different regards at different times, and in different locations or regions, this volume delves into three modes of theorizing: critical theory, classical theory, and systems theory - each representing a different level of reflexivity and a particular way of approaching modern societies. The authors discuss globally known theorists such as August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Emil Lederer, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Niklas Luhmann to present perspectives, analyses, and insights that refer to and are relevant in the social world today.

For a thousand years France has struggled to impose unity upon its diverse components. For most of the time its leaders have sought to define its identity by opposition to the 'Anglo-Saxons': first England, then Britain and the USA. The prologue explores France's self-image by contrast with the Anglo-American counter-identity. Part one deals with the unfinished Revolution from 1789 to 1878 when the Third Republic achieved relative stability. After examining the variety of symbolic representatives of Frenchness in the search for democratic legitimacy and national unanimity, the enduring divisio

"Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours available for purposeful and industrious activities. Urban lighting is undergoing a revolution due to recent developments in lighting technology, and increased focus on sustainability and human-scaled environments. Cities of Light is expansive in coverage, spanning two centuries and touching on developments on six continents, without diluting its central focus on architectural and urban lighting. Covering history, geography, theory, and speculation in urban lighting, readers will have numerous points of entry into the book, finding it easy to navigate for a quick reference and or a coherent narrative if read straight through. With chapters written by respected scholars and highly-regarded contemporary practitioners, this book will delight students and practitioners of architectural and urban history, area and cultural studies, and lighting design professionals and the institutional and municipal authorities they serve. At a moment when the entire world is being reshaped by new lighting technologies and new design attitudes, the longer history of urban lighting remains fragmentary. Cities of Light aims to provide a global framework for historical studies of urban lighting and to offer a new perspective on the fast-moving developments of lighting today."--Publisher's website.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Recruitment and Modernization: A Mexican Model -- 2 Age as a Variable in Political Recruitment -- 3 Experience and Leadership: The Role of Combat -- 4 Education and Politics: Formation and Recruitment of National Leaders -- 5 Experience and Leadership: The Influence of Careers -- 6 Gender, Place, and Family in Leadership Credentials -- 7 The Opposition: An Alternative Path to Leadership? -- 8 The Branches of Government: Who Recruits Whom -- 9 Salinas in Power: A Case Study of Recruitment in Practice -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index

Prologue : African Americans in the German Democratic Republic / Victor Grossman -- An unexpected alliance : August Willich, Peter H. Clark, and the abolitionist movement in Cincinnati / Mischa Honeck -- German immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1850-1880 / Jeffery Strickland -- Louis Douglas and the Weimar reception of Harlemania / Leroy Hopkins -- Race in the Reich : the African American press on Nazi Germany / Larry A. Greene -- Field trip into the twilight : a German Africanist discovers the Black bourgeoisie at Howard University, 1937-1939 / Berndt Ostendorf -- Love across the color line : the limits of German and American democracy, 1945-1968 / Maria Höhn -- The erotics of African American endurance, or, On the right side of history : White (West)-German public sentiment between pornotroping and civil rights solidarity / Sabine Broeck -- "Nazi Jim Crow" : Hans Jürgen Massaquoi's democratic vistas on the Black Atlantic and Afro-Germans in Ebony / Frank Mehring -- A raisin in the East : African American civil rights drama in GDR scholarship and theater practice / Astrid Haas -- Ollie Harrington : his portrait drawn on the basis of East German (GDR) secret service files / Aribert Schroeder -- Exploding Hitler and Americanizing Germany : occupying "Black" bodies and postwar desire / Damani Partridge -- Reconstructing "America" : the development of African American studies in the Federal Republic of Germany / Eva Boesenberg.

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Columbus throughout Two Hundred Years -- Chapter 1 Two Centuries of Business Development -- Chapter 2 The Role of Water in Shaping Columbus -- Chapter 3 Water and the Development of Columbus -- Chapter 4 Land Use in a Changing City -- Chapter 5 Land Use and Urban Development -- Conclusion Columbus in 2012 -- Appendix Populations of Ohio: Columbus and Other Cities, 1800-2010 -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index

2.4. WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR STATUS AS CONSTITUTIONAL CUSTOMARY LAW?2.5. EXAMPLES OF CONSTITUTIONAL CUSTOMARY LAW; 2.6. CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; 3. NORWAY IN COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM, Luca Mezzetti ; 3.1. INTRODUCTION; 3.2 EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONALISM AFTER THE VIENNA CONGRESS; 3.2.1. Autocracies, Oligarchies and Monarchies; 3.2.2. Dualistic and Monistic Constitutional Systems; 3.3. TYPES AND MODELS OF CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS: CONCLUSIONS; 4. THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORGANS AND THEIR BALANCE, Rolando Tarchi; 4.1. DEFINITION OF THE SUBJECT AND METHODOLOGICAL PROFILES.

This superb collection of biographical essays tells the story of the U.S. Navy through the lives of the officers who forged its traditions. The essayists are leading naval historians who assess the careers of these men and their impact on the naval service, from the Continental Navy of the American Revolution to the nuclear Navy of the Cold War

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers. William Coleman examines how anti-economics developed from the Enlightenment to the present day and analyzes its various guises. Right anti-economics, Left anti-economics, Nationalist and Historicist anti-economics and Irrationalist, Moralist, Aesthetic and Environmental anti-economics.

Looking for Old Ontario guides the traveller through the vernacular landscape of the province, to look in a new way at barns and fences, jails and post offices, inns and mills, canals and railways, roadsides, cemeteries, and much, much more. To McIlwraith's trained eye, even the most ordinary features of the cultural landscape can communicate social meaning. He shows us how to date a house. He explains the popularity of brick in the province. He notes the economical use and reuse of materials and ponders their meaning. He helps us look with fresh eyes at 'the unexceptional, the ordinary, the vernacular, ' for it is there, he believes, that we may uncover the character of those who have built and rebuilt old Ontario. This book will be useful to general readers anywhere who are interested in recognizing the broader meanings of their communities' heritage, as well as the students of geography, history, and planning