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State By State
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Author : Matt Weiland
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-10-19
State By State written by Matt Weiland and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-19 with Literary Collections categories.
Inspired by Depression-era travel guides, an anthology of essays on each of the fifty states, plus Washington, D.C., by some of America’s finest writers. State by State is a panoramic portrait of America and an appreciation of all fifty states (and Washington, D.C.) by fifty-one of the most acclaimed writers in the nation. Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New Jersey Dave Eggers tells it straight: Illinois is Number 1 Louise Erdrich loses her bikini top in North Dakota Jonathan Franzen gets waylaid by New York’s publicist . . . and personal attorney . . . and historian . . . and geologist John Hodgman explains why there is no such thing as a “Massachusettsean” Edward P. Jones makes the case: D.C. should be a state! Jhumpa Lahiri declares her reckless love for the Rhode Island coast Rich Moody explores the dark heart of Connecticut’s Merritt Parkway, exit by exit Ann Patchett makes a pilgrimage to the Civil War site at Shiloh, Tennessee William T. Vollman visits a San Francisco S&M club And many more Praise for State by State An NPR Best Book of the Year “The full plumage of American life, in all its riotous glory.” —The New Yorker “Odds are, you’ll fall for every state a little.” —Los Angeles Times
State By State With The State
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Author : The State and State
language : en
Publisher: Hyperion
Release Date : 1997-04-01
State By State With The State written by The State and State and has been published by Hyperion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-01 with Travel categories.
From a popular comedy troupe that found fame with a stint on MTV comes for the first time a printed version of its irreverent, topical, and odd-ball humor in the form of a mock travel guide covering all fifty states in America.
The Everyday Life Of The State
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Author : Adam White
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2013-07-15
The Everyday Life Of The State written by Adam White and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with Political Science categories.
Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy and uneven. While it is almost always possible to trace the formal rules governing human interaction to the statute books of one state or another, in reality the words in these books often have little bearing upon what is happening on the ground. Their meanings are intentionally and unintentionally misrepresented by those who are supposed to enforce them and by those who are supposed to obey them, generating a range of competing authorities, voices, and allegiances. The Everyday Life of the State explores this "everyday" transformation of state authority into multiple scripts, narratives, and political activities. Drawing upon case studies from across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, the chapters in this book investigate the many ways in which those subjects traditionally regarded as being weak, passive, and obedient manage not only to resist the authority of state actors but to actively subvert and appropriate it, in the process making, unmaking, and remaking the boundaries between state and society over and over again. Collectively, these chapters make an important contribution to the expanding literature on "everyday politics." The "state in society" concept used in this volume has been developed by political scientist Joel S. Migdal, the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
50 States
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Author : Erin McHugh
language : en
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Release Date : 2010
50 States written by Erin McHugh and has been published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Kid characters guide readers through the states, pointing out the capital, historic landmarks, famous residents, geographical and natural wonders, local delicacies and interesting facts, in a title which includes a fold-out jigsaw puzzle and a 50-state quarter collector map.
United States Of America A State By State Guide
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Author : M. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2006-10
United States Of America A State By State Guide written by M. Miller and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10 with categories.
For use in schools and libraries only. Presents information about the people, places, birds, insects, flowers, and endangered species associated with each of the fifty states and the nation's capital.
Birth Of The State
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Author : Charlotte Epstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-12
Birth Of The State written by Charlotte Epstein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-12 with Political Science categories.
This book uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted ideas about the two defining political forms of modernity, the state and the subject of rights. It traces, under the lens of the body, how the state and the subject mutually constituted each other all the way down, by going all the way back, to their original crafting in the seventeenth century. It considers two revolutions. The first, scientific, threw humanity out of the centre of the universe, and transformed the very meanings of matter, space, and the body; while the second, legal and political, re-established humans as the centre-point of the framework of modern rights. The book analyses the fundamental rights to security, liberty, and property respectively as the initial knots where the state-subject relation was first sealed. It develops three arguments, that the body served to naturalise security; to individualise liberty; and to privatise property. Covering a wide range of materials--from early modern Dutch painting, to the canon of English political thought, the Anglo-Scottish legal struggles of naturalization, and medical and religious practices--it shows both how the body has operated as history's great naturaliser, and how it can be mobilised instead as a critical tool that lays bare the deeply racialised and gendered constructions that made the state and the subject of rights. The book returns to the origins of constructivist and constitutive theorising to reclaim their radical and critical potential.
State In Society
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Author : Joel S. Migdal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-08-27
State In Society written by Joel S. Migdal and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-27 with Political Science categories.
The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's "state-in-society" approach. The essays situate the approach within the classic literature in political science, sociology, and related disciplines but present a new model for understanding state-society relations. It allies parts of the state and groups in society against other such coalitions, determines how societies and states create and maintain distinct ways of structuring day-to-day life, the nature of the rules that govern people's behavior, whom they benefit and whom they disadvantage, which sorts of elements unite people and which divide them, and what shared meaning people hold about their relations with others and their place in the world.
Boundaries Of The State In Us History
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Author : James T. Sparrow
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-10-12
Boundaries Of The State In Us History written by James T. Sparrow and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-12 with History categories.
The question of how the American state defines its powernot what it is” but what itdoeshas become central to a range of historical discourses, from the founding of the Republic and the role of the educational system, to the functions of agencies and America's place in the world. Here, James Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen Sawyer assemble some definitional work in this area, showing that the state is an integral actor in physical, spatial, and economic exercises of power. They further imply that traditional conceptions of the state cannot grasp the subtleties of power and its articulation. Contributors include C.J. Álvarez, Elisabeth Clemens, Richard John, Robert Lieberman, Omar McRoberts, Gautham Rao, Gabriel Rosenberg, Jason Scott Smith, Tracy Steffes, and the editors.
Seeing Like A State
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Author : James C. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Seeing Like A State written by James C. Scott and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Political Science categories.
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
The State
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Author : Franz Oppenheimer
language : en
Publisher: The Floating Press
Release Date : 2017-03-01
The State written by Franz Oppenheimer and has been published by The Floating Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-01 with Political Science categories.
Influential German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer invigorated the intellectual discourse of the early twentieth century with the controversial ideas he sets forth in his masterwork, The State. In it, Oppenheimer rejects the centuries-old notion of the social contract espoused by political philosophers such as John Locke. Instead, he posits that the state is a tool of oppression via which the ruling classes exert their power over less fortunate groups.