Japan: A Documentary History: Vol 2: The Late Tokugawa Period to the Present
by David J. Lu
An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this two volume book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into Japan's contemporary civilisation. This volume covers from the late 18th century up to 1995. Three major...
Problems of Change in Urban Government
by M.O. Dickerson, S. Drabek, and John Woods
In 1911 one of every three Canadians lived in urban areas; today three out of four do. This growth has raised serious issues in urban government: How should power and authority be distributed among differing, often competing, urban interests? How can municipal governments obtain the funds they need to satisfy the increased demand for community and social services? How much should citizens participate? At a conference held in Banff on alternate forms of urban government, academics and practitione...
After Sovereignty: On the Question of Political Beginnings
How to Save the Constitution (Freedom in America, #4)
by Paul B Skousen and W Cleon Skousen
The Debate on the American Revolution (Issues in Historiography)
by Gwenda Morgan
This book is the first in-depth study of the way in which historians have dealt with the coming of the American Revolution and the formation of the US Constitution. The approach is thematic, examining how historians in different periods interpreted these events and their causes and, more contentiously, their meaning. Making accessible to modern readers the work of often-neglected early historians, this book examines how the emergence of history as a professional discipline led to new and compe...
The Future of Federalism (Studies in Fiscal Federalism and State-local Finance)
The global financial crisis had a dramatic short-term effect on federal relations and, as the twelve case studies in this illuminating book show, set in place a new set of socio-political factors that are shaping the longer-run process of institutional change in federal systems. The Future of Federalism illustrates how an understanding of these complex dynamics is crucial to the development of policies needed for effective and sustainable federal governance in the 21st century. The book finds th...
Reflections on War and Peace and the Constitution
by Professor George Anastaplo
The Text of the United States Constitution (Us Constitution) (Audio Classics)
by George H. Smith
Advocates of state sovereignty believed the Constitution created an executive power that was so strong it might as well have been a monarchy. But advocates of national government felt that a strong executive was essential to steer America through crisis. Between these two positions, the living body of the Constitution was sculpted.
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America Volume 3
by John Adams, Former
Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents
The debate over internal constitutional change took place at a time when many people were concerned about relations between Great Britain and the self-governing colonies. The issue of Imperial federation was continuously and exhaustively discussed and promoted from the late 1860s through World War I. The waters became so muddied that at times it has been difficult to separate arguments for closer imperial union from proposals for internal decentralization. Kendle comments extensively on this con...
Utopia (English Classics S.) (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Saint Thomas More
This is the classic idea of a people's commonwealth. Although it has become a byword for the unrealistic since publication in 1516, this extract demonstrates a far more real and practical side to More's vision.
Devolution (House of Lords Papers, No. 28 (Session 2002-03))