Author: Gerry Simpson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521534901
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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The presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on 'sovereign equality' has accommodated the Great Powers and regulated outlaw states since the beginning of the nineteenth-century. In doing so, the author offers a fresh understanding of sovereignty which he terms juridical sovereignty to show how international law has managed the interplay of three languages: the languages of Great Power prerogative, the language of outlawry (or anti-pluralism) and the language of sovereign equality. The co-existence and interaction of these three languages is traced through a number of moments of institutional transformation in the global order from the Congress of Vienna to the 'war on terrorism'.
Author: Zachary M. Schrag
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421415771
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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As Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, this paperback edition features a new preface from the author. Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless you're in the fast lane of the Capital Beltway during rush hour. Little wonder, then, that so many residents and visitors rely on the Washington Metro, the 106-mile rapid transit system that serves the District of Columbia and its inner suburbs. In the first comprehensive history of the Metro, Zachary M. Schrag tells the story of the Great Society Subway from its earliest rumblings to the present day, from Arlington to College Park, Eisenhower to Marion Barry. Unlike the pre–World War II rail systems of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, the Metro was built at a time when most American families already owned cars, and when most American cities had dedicated themselves to freeways, not subways. Why did the nation's capital take a different path? What were the consequences of that decision? Using extensive archival research as well as oral history, Schrag argues that the Metro can be understood only in the political context from which it was born: the Great Society liberalism of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. The Metro emerged from a period when Americans believed in public investments suited to the grandeur and dignity of the world's richest nation. The Metro was built not merely to move commuters, but in the words of Lyndon Johnson, to create "a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community." Schrag scrutinizes the project from its earliest days, including general planning, routes, station architecture, funding decisions, land-use impacts, and the behavior of Metro riders. The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793302803
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Rawlins District
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Category : Canyons
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
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Category : Great Salt Lake National Monument
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Considers S. 25, to establish a Great Salt Lake National Monument on and about Antelope Island.
Author: United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission
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Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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