The Nation City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nation City write by Rahm Emanuel. This book was released on 2021-01-05. The Nation City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At a time of anxiety about the effectiveness of our national government, Rahm Emanuel provides a clear vision, for both progressives and centrists, of how to get things done in America today--a bracing, optimistic vision of America's future from one of our most experienced and original political minds. In The Nation City, Rahm Emanuel, former two-term mayor of Chicago and White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama, offers a firsthand account of how cities, rather than the federal government, stand at the center of innovation and effective governance. Drawing on his own experiences in Chicago, and on his relationships with other mayors around America, Emanuel provides dozens of examples to show how cities are improving education, infrastructure, job conditions, and environmental policy at a local level. Emanuel argues that cities are the most ancient political institutions, dating back thousands of years and have reemerged as the nation-states of our time. He makes clear how mayors are accountable to their voters to a greater degree than any other elected officials and illuminates how progressives and centrists alike can best accomplish their goals by focusing their energies on local politics. The Nation City maps out a new, energizing, and hopeful way forward.
Native Place, City, and Nation
Native Place, City, and Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Native Place, City, and Nation write by Bryna Goodman. This book was released on 1995. Native Place, City, and Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A new look at China's urban culture during the early twentieth century. Erasing the dichotomy between tradition and modernity, the author examines the relationship between native-place sentiments and an emerging national identity."--Susan Mann, author of "Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950" "Bryna Goodman's work on native-place associations is one of the most important studies of Chinese social history to have appeared in the last ten years. It melds an ingeniously researched ethnography with a convincing narrative of urban history. The result is a highly original approach to the development of the modern Chinese city."--Philip A. Kuhn, author of "Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768"
City and Nation
City and Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City and Nation write by Michael Peter Smith. This book was released on 2017-11-30. City and Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, sociology, and history - these essays problematize the dynamic between the local and the national, the cultural and the material, revealing the complex interplay of social forces by which place is constituted and contributes to the social construction of national identity in Asia, Latin America, and the United States. These essays explore the dialogue between past and present, local and national identities in the making of "modern" places. Contributions range from an assessment of historical discourses on the relationship between modernity and heritage in turn-of-the-century Suzhou to the social construction of San Antonio's Market Square as a contested presencing of the city's Mexican past. Case studies of the socio-spatial restructuring of Penang and Jakarta show how place-making from above by modernizing states is articulated with a claims-making politics of class and ethnic difference from below. An examination of nineteenth-century Central America reveals a case of local grassroots formation not only of national identity but national institutions. Finally, a close examination of Latin American literature at the end of the nineteenth century reveals the importance of a fantastic reversal of Balzac's dystopian vision of Parisian cosmo-politanism in defining the place of Latin America and the possibilities of importing urban modernity.
Chocolate City
Chocolate City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chocolate City write by Chris Myers Asch. This book was released on 2017-10-17. Chocolate City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from "Chocolate City" to "Latte City--Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.
A Hygienic City-Nation: Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Calcutta’s Paras (1860–1945)
A Hygienic City-Nation: Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Calcutta’s Paras (1860–1945) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Hygienic City-Nation: Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Calcutta’s Paras (1860–1945) write by Nabaparna Ghosh. This book was released on 2020-10-29. A Hygienic City-Nation: Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Calcutta’s Paras (1860–1945) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an on-the-ground view of colonial Calcutta's neighbourhoods, where kinship-like ties shaped urban space and resisted city-making efforts of the state.
