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City At The Point

…useful for undergraduate and graduate courses on environmental politics and policy making, or as a supplement for courses on public policy making generally. | Samuel P. Hays| Regional| History /…

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The Art of Freedom

|9780822967620|Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India|Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women’s rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying…

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History and Context in Comparative Public Policy

…confined to prevailing methods of social science. Policy-making behavior involves historical, contextual, and philosophical factors that also raise critical questions about the concepts and theory of the discipline. Ashford asks…

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World’s Fairs in the Cold War

|9780822945789|Science, Technology, and the Culture of Progress|The post–World War II science-based technological revolution inevitably found its way into almost all international expositions with displays on atomic energy, space exploration, transportation,…

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Portrait of a Russian Province

…number of significant conclusions flowed from this understanding. Deep and abiding social divisions obstructed the evolution of modernity, as experienced “naturally” in other parts of Europe, so there was no…

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