State Local category: 1635 books
Enterprise of Law
Justice Without the State
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In the minds of many, the provision of justice and security has long been linked to the state. To ask whether non-state institutions could deliver those services on their own, without the aid of coercive taxation and a monopoly franchise, runs the risk of being branded as naive anarchism or dangerous...
Bob Bullock
God Bless Texas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Renowned for his fierce devotion to the people of Texas—as well as his equally fierce rages and unpredictable temper—Bob Bullock was the most powerful political figure in Texas at the end of the twentieth century. First elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1956, Bullock held several...
Alabama
The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennial.
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State*,* Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state’s...
by Federico A. Castillo Blanco, Estanislao Arana García, Federico A. Castillo Blanco
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2019
El estudio del Derecho Local se torna como una variable necesaria para la formación de los alumnos universitarios que tiendan a especializarse en el Derecho Público. De ahí que la elaboración de estos materiales nazcan con dos objetivos principales: de un lado, con la vocación de servir de base...
Local Governments in Multilevel Governance
The Administrative Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Local governments serve their communities in many diversified ways as they increasingly engage in multiple connections: international, regional, regional-local, with nongovernmental organizations and through external nongovernmental services county actors. The book discusses how the shift in emphasis...
Rogue State
The Unconstitutional Process of Establishing West Virginia Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Rogue State chronicles how West Virginia entered—and remains—in the Union under unconstitutional circumstances. Its severance from Virginia and reincorporation as a new state in 1863 occurred outside the bounds of constitutional legality. The United States government, while pledged to prevent...
Parks for Texas
Enduring Landscapes of the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
State parks across Texas offer a world of opportunities for recreation and education. Yet few park visitors or park managers know the remarkable story of how this magnificent state park system came into being during the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Drawing on archival records and examining...
Inside Alabama
A Personal History of My State
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the "Heart of Dixie."
This book tells Alabama's history in a conversational style with an unapolo-getically subjective approach. Accessible to general readers and students alike, it recounts the history and politics of a state known for...
by Clayton P. Gillette
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
by Patrick Cox
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By promoting expanded industrialization and urbanization, as well as a more modern image of Texas as a southwestern, rather than southern, state, news barons in the early decades of the twentieth century laid the...
by James L. Haley
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Texas is the country's second largest state by size and population. It has a unique and varied history, having been ruled by a succession of nations—from which the term “six flags over Texas” sprang—before becoming an independent republic. From its traditional oil, cattle, and cotton industries...
Creating a Local Historical Book
Fiction and Non-Fiction Genres
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Does Your City or Region Have a Fascinating Story that needs to be told before it's forgotten?
Yes, it does, and you can be the person to write it!
In this short text, Tyler Tichelaar, author of My Marquette and The Marquette Trilogy, talks in a conversational format about how he became interested...
State by State
A Panoramic Portrait of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
See America with 50 of Our Finest, Funniest, and Foremost Writers Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New Jersey
Dave Eggers tells it straight: Illinois is Number 1
Louise Erdrich loses her bikini top in North Dakota
Jonathan Franzen gets waylaid by...
How Barack Obama Won
A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
This detailed overview and analysis of the results of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential wingives us the inside state-by-state guide to how Obama achieved his victory, and allows us to see where the country stood four years ago.
Although much has changed in the nearly four years since,...