The Nation Takes Shape
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The Nation Takes Shape
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Author : Marcus Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1959
The Nation Takes Shape written by Marcus Cunliffe 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 1959 with History categories.
Description of the critical half-century that determined the American national character.
Nation Takes Shape 1789
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Author : Marcus Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Nation Takes Shape 1789 written by Marcus Cunliffe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with categories.
Fighting Political Gridlock
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Author : David J. Toscano
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Fighting Political Gridlock written by David J. Toscano and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with Political Science categories.
In this profoundly polarized era, the nation has been transfixed on the politics of Washington and its seemingly impenetrable gridlock. Many of the decisions that truly affect people’s lives, however, are being made not on the federal level but in the states. Faced with Washington’s political standoff, state governments are taking action on numerous vital issues, often impacting citizens and their communities far more than the decision makers in D.C. Despite this, few Americans really understand their state governments or the issues they address. In Fighting Political Gridlock, David Toscano reveals how the states are working around the impasse in Washington and how their work is increasingly shaping society. Long a central figure in one of the most important legislative bodies in the nation, the Virginia House of Delegates, Toscano brings a unique expertise to this urgent and timely discussion. Beginning with an analysis of state responses to COVID-19, including the processes and consequences of declaring states of emergency, he goes on to detail how various states are attacking issues in different ways–from education and voting to criminal justice and climate change–and provides a broad overview of how state actions affect our system of federalism. Toscano concludes with a call to action and civic engagement, including suggestions for how citizens and public officials can revitalize American democracy.
Materializing The Nation
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Author : Robert J. Foster
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2002-10-24
Materializing The Nation written by Robert J. Foster and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-24 with Business & Economics categories.
"Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested."—Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of Vacationing Why, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also through mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers a thoughtful critique of recent approaches to nationalism and consumption and an ethnographic perspective on constructs of the nation found in official policy documents, letters to the editor, school textbooks, song lyrics, advertisements, and other materials. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links among nationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere.
Mapping The Nation
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Author : Susan Schulten
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-06-29
Mapping The Nation written by Susan Schulten 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 2012-06-29 with Technology & Engineering categories.
“A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic, racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified nation. By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but unique records of the nation’s past. All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we inhabit—saturated with maps and graphic information—grew out of this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and their nation in new dimensions.
The Sins Of The Nation And The Ritual Of Apologies
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Author : Danielle Celermajer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-27
The Sins Of The Nation And The Ritual Of Apologies written by Danielle Celermajer 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 2009-04-27 with Political Science categories.
In the last years of the twentieth century, political leaders the world over began to apologize for wrongs in their nations' pasts. Many dismissed these apologies as 'mere words', cynical attempts to avoid more costly forms of reparation; others rejected them as inappropriate encroachments into politics or forms of action that belonged in personal relationships or religion. To understand apology's extraordinary political emergence, we have to suspend our automatic interpretations of what it means for nations to apologize and interrogate their meaning afresh. Taking the reader on a journey through apology's religious history and contemporary apologetic dramas, this book argues that the apologetic phenomenon marks a new stage in our recognition of the importance of collective responsibility, the place of ritual in addressing national wrongs, and the contribution that practices that once belonged in the religious sphere might make to contemporary politics.
Mexico A Transterritorial Nation The Challenge Of The 21st Century
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Author : Tonatiuh Guillén López
language : en
Publisher: UNAM, Programa Universitario de Estudios del Desarrollo
Release Date : 2023-07-30
Mexico A Transterritorial Nation The Challenge Of The 21st Century written by Tonatiuh Guillén López and has been published by UNAM, Programa Universitario de Estudios del Desarrollo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-30 with History categories.
This book is dedicated to the study of the Mexican nation, providing an overview of its two-hundred-year evolution, and particularly analyzing its contemporary profile, which is characterized by unprecedented social reconfiguration sustained by Mexicans residing abroad. As we will show throughout this book ́s chapters, the Mexican nation has over the past two centuries followed a complex, sinuous trajectory, conflictive at many points, which step by step built the nation as we know it today, a nation that has not by any means exhausted its vitality or its impetus for continuing to evolve.From now on, the Mexican nation cannot be understood solely on the basis of the population residing within its borders. It must be recognized comprehensively, considering, simultaneously and in equal conditions, people living abroad who hold Mexican nationality. The path ahead is extraordinarily complex, without a doubt. Taking into account its social composition, the 21st century Mexican nation is based and reproduces itself simultaneously within and outside of the territory; therein lies its transterritorial nature.The author is a professor in the UNAM University Program in Development Studies. He has been president of the El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and Commissioner for the National Migration Institute. He is a member of the National System of Researchers and has published widely on topics of migration, northern and southern border studies, regional political issues and modernization of local governments.
Security Development And Nation Building In Timor Leste
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Author : Vandra Harris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-29
Security Development And Nation Building In Timor Leste written by Vandra Harris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-29 with History categories.
Despite Timor-Leste’s high expectations when it became independent from Indonesia in 2002, the country is ranked among the least developed countries in the world. This book draws together the perspectives of practitioners, policy-makers and academics on the international efforts to rebuild the world’s newest nation.
Jefferson And Hamilton
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Author : John Ferling
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-10-07
Jefferson And Hamilton written by John Ferling and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-07 with History categories.
One of America's foremost historians brilliantly brings to life the fierce struggle - both public and, ultimately, bitterly personal - between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton - two rivals whose opposing visions of what the United States should be continue to shape our country to this day.
The Evolution Of A Nation
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Author : Daniel Berkowitz
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2012
The Evolution Of A Nation written by Daniel Berkowitz and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
The book also examines the effects of early legal systems.