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The Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin America

|9780822948124|Informal Political Practices and Democracy in Unitary Countries|Despite democratization at the national level, local political bosses still govern many municipalities in Latin America. Caudillos and clans often use informal political…

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Poetry in America

|9780822961567|Poetry in America offers extravagantly formed lyric and narrative poems that function like works of social realism for our times: hard times, wartime, divorce, times of downturn and dissipated resources….

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The Spencers of Amberson Avenue

…of the growing number of middle-management employees in American industrial cities in the 1880s and 1890s. His income, which supported his family of nine, a cook, two regular nurses, and

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Ties That Bind

…two hundred years. He focuses on water, electric, and cable television utility networks and on experiences in four major American cities — Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh, arguing that…

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Careers in City Politics

|9780822985501|The Case for Urban Democracy| Careers in City Politics provides an in-depth view of the vital aspects of local politics-access to political office, individual office holder’s accountability to the public,…

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