Author: Donald C. Menzel
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817308032
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This state-of-the-art study provides a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of the major issues and problems facing American counties. The American county, an often neglected and maligned unit of local government, has become increasingly important, especially as federal and state governments shift functional duties and responsibilities to local governments. Once described as "a still-forgotten government", the American county now generates new interest, and Menzel and his colleagues significantly expand the knowledge base and identify gaps in our understanding of counties as political and governmental bodies.
The American County
Author: Donald C. Menzel
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817308032
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This state-of-the-art study provides a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of the major issues and problems facing American counties. The American county, an often neglected and maligned unit of local government, has become increasingly important, especially as federal and state governments shift functional duties and responsibilities to local governments. Once described as "a still-forgotten government", the American county now generates new interest, and Menzel and his colleagues significantly expand the knowledge base and identify gaps in our understanding of counties as political and governmental bodies.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817308032
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This state-of-the-art study provides a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of the major issues and problems facing American counties. The American county, an often neglected and maligned unit of local government, has become increasingly important, especially as federal and state governments shift functional duties and responsibilities to local governments. Once described as "a still-forgotten government", the American county now generates new interest, and Menzel and his colleagues significantly expand the knowledge base and identify gaps in our understanding of counties as political and governmental bodies.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1522
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Languages : en
Pages : 1522
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The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860
Author: Martin Brückner
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469632616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America--a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful--had to be created. The Social Life of Maps tracks American cartography's spectacular rise to its unprecedented cultural influence. Between 1750 and 1860, maps did more than communicate geographic information and political pretensions. They became affordable and intelligible to ordinary American men and women looking for their place in the world. School maps quickly entered classrooms, where they shaped reading and other cognitive exercises; giant maps drew attention in public spaces; miniature maps helped Americans chart personal experiences. In short, maps were uniquely social objects whose visual and material expressions affected commercial practices and graphic arts, theatrical performances and the communication of emotions. This lavishly illustrated study follows popular maps from their points of creation to shops and galleries, schoolrooms and coat pockets, parlors and bookbindings. Between the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, early Americans bonded with maps; Martin Bruckner's comprehensive history of quotidian cartographic encounters is the first to show us how.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469632616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America--a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful--had to be created. The Social Life of Maps tracks American cartography's spectacular rise to its unprecedented cultural influence. Between 1750 and 1860, maps did more than communicate geographic information and political pretensions. They became affordable and intelligible to ordinary American men and women looking for their place in the world. School maps quickly entered classrooms, where they shaped reading and other cognitive exercises; giant maps drew attention in public spaces; miniature maps helped Americans chart personal experiences. In short, maps were uniquely social objects whose visual and material expressions affected commercial practices and graphic arts, theatrical performances and the communication of emotions. This lavishly illustrated study follows popular maps from their points of creation to shops and galleries, schoolrooms and coat pockets, parlors and bookbindings. Between the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, early Americans bonded with maps; Martin Bruckner's comprehensive history of quotidian cartographic encounters is the first to show us how.
Proceedings of the ... Conference of the American Country Life Association, Inc
Author: American Country Life Association. Conference
Publisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Journal of the American Medical Association
Author:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Publications of the American Folklife Center
Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2144
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 23 : Nos. 1-128 (Issued April, 1926 - March, 1927)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2144
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 23 : Nos. 1-128 (Issued April, 1926 - March, 1927)
Local Chief Executives' Perceptions of Policy-making and Management Needs : a Report
Author: Center for Governmental Studies (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher:
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Category : Executives
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Executives
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Proceedings of the Conference of the American Country Life Association, Inc
Author: American Country Life Association
Publisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Publisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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