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The Fifty Days: Napoleon in England
In: Military Affairs, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 164
Ending Sexual Harassment at City Hall: Policy Initiatives in Large American Cities
In: State and local government review: a journal of research and viewpoints on state and local government issues, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 100
ISSN: 0160-323X
Deliberative Democracy in the Context of Town Meetings in Seventeenth-Century New England
From Alexis de Tocqueville onward, the seventeenth-century New England town has been associated with political and social practices that nurtured the making of a "democratic" society. Myth or reality? And where does the religion of the English people who founded the New England colonies figure in this story? A close examination of town and church records—which Tocqueville was unable to accomplish—reveals a powerful commitment to the core values of transparency, equity (fairness and justice), and broad participation. The "Congregational" system of church government transferred authority from any centralized hierarchy to the laymen of each local congregation. Similarly, the central governments in the colonies gave generous allocations of land to groups of immigrants, empowering them to set up self-governing towns. A crucial question for these towns was deciding how to distribute this land; another, was who could share in the decision-making. No formal or explicit "democratic" ideology accompanied the making of this civic culture, but in the context of the seventeenth century, the outcome was something unusually akin to a democratic society
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Joining It Up Locally? Area Regeneration and Holistic Government in England
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 67-74
ISSN: 1360-0591
Ueber den Krieg der Engländer in Ostindien : Eine Vorlesung gehalten vor Sr. Herzogl. Durchlaucht dem regierenden Herzog von Würtemberg als Reichsgrafen von Urach, Halle den 12. Februar 1783. / von Matthias Christian Sprengel, ordentlichen Professor der Geschichte ; Über den Krieg der Engländer in O...
Titelseite = Bogen A1 ist einseitig bedruckt ; Vorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: "Halle, bey Johann Jacob Gebauer, 1783."
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Differing gender roles: women in mining and fishing communities in Northumberland, England, 1880–1914
In: Women's studies international forum, Band 27, Heft 5-6, S. 521-530
Planning for urban growth: Metropolitan area plans and their implications for South-East England
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 101-134
ISSN: 1360-0591
The Changing Urban Hierarchy in England and Wales, 1913‐1998
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 35, Heft 9, S. 775-807
ISSN: 1360-0591
A REVIEW OF LEGISLATION–PROTECTION FOR BATTERED SPOUSES IN ENGLAND*
In: Family court review: publ. in assoc. with: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 39-41
ISSN: 1744-1617
Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America
In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique : RCSP, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 959-960
ISSN: 0008-4239
Die Sabbathi, 19. Maii, 1649. Resolved, &c. That all such delinquents that have compounded at Goldsmiths-Hall, and their compositions reported and allowed
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; Title from caption and opening words of text. ; Includes two other resolutions concerning delinquents, dated 19 and 23 May respectively. ; Signed: Hen. Scobell, Cler. Parliament. ; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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