People States Territories

Author : Rhys Jones
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444399479

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People - States - Territories by Rhys Jones Pdf

People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation of the British state over the long term. A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territory as a static and given geographical concept An explication of the political geographies of state reproduction and transformation, through its focus on state territoriality and the variegated character of state power Considerable empirical insight into the consolidation of the British state over the long term.

Author : Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374715120

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How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr Pdf

Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.

Author : S. C. Bhatt
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : India
ISBN : 8178353563

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Land and people of Indian states and union territories : (in 36 volumes) by S. C. Bhatt Pdf

An encyclopaedic voluminous work gives authentic and objectives information about all the 28 states and 7Union Territories, History, Physical aspects, Population, Politics, Education, Transport and Communication, Languages and Literature, Medical Facilities, Industry, Finance Sector, Natural Wealth, Agriculture, Wild Life, Tourism, Archeological sites, Natural Calamities, Customs, Fairs and Festivals, Arts and Crafts, Rural and Urban Development, Newspapers, Important Events, NGO, Planning outlays0 in thirty-six volumes, each volume complete about a state. A benchmark.

Author : Doug Mack
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780393247619

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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack Pdf

“To truly understand the United States, one must understand The Not-Quite States of America.” —Mark Stein, best-selling author of How the States Got Their Shapes Everyone knows that America is 50 states and… some other stuff. The U.S. territories—American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—and their 4 million people are little known and often forgotten, so Doug Mack set out on a 30,000-mile journey to learn about them. How did they come to be part of the United States? What are they like today? And why aren’t they states? Deeply researched and richly reported, The Not-Quite States of America is an entertaining and unprecedented account of the territories’ crucial yet overlooked place in the American story.

Author : Josephat Ezenwajiaku
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000073485

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State Territory and International Law by Josephat Ezenwajiaku Pdf

This book proposes a re-interpretation of Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations to read, or at least include, respect for the inviolability of State territory. While States purport to obey the prohibition of the Use of Force, they frequently engage in activities that could undermine international peace and security. In this book the author argues that State practice, opinio juris, as well as contentious and advisory opinions of the International Court of Justice, have promoted the first limb of Article 2(4). Although wars between States have decreased, the maintenance of international peace and security remains a mirage, as shown by the increase in intra- and inter-State conflicts across the world. The author seeks to initiate a rethinking of the provision of Article 2(4), which the International Court of Justice has described as the cornerstone of the United Nations. The author argues that the time is ripe for States to embrace an evolutive interpretation of Article 2(4) to mean respect, as opposed to the traditional view of the threat, or the use, of force. He also evaluates the discourse regarding territorial jurisdiction in cyberspace and argues that the efforts made by the international community to apply Article 2(4) to cyberspace suggest that the article is a flexible and live instrument that should be adjusted to address the circumstances that endanger international peace and security. This book will engineer a serious debate regarding the scope of Article 2(4), which before now has always been limited to the threat or use of force. As a result, it will be of interest to academics and students of public international law, as well as diplomats and policymakers.

Author : Paul M. Liffman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816552856

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Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation by Paul M. Liffman Pdf

The Huichol (Wixarika) people claim a vast expanse of Mexico’s western Sierra Madre and northern highlands as a territory called kiekari, which includes parts of the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Durango, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí. This territory forms the heart of their economic and spiritual lives. But indigenous land struggle is a central fact of Mexican history, and in this fascinating new work Paul Liffman expands our understanding of it. Drawing on contemporary anthropological theory, he explains how Huichols assert their sovereign rights to collectively own the 1,500 square miles they inhabit and to practice rituals across the 35,000 square miles where their access is challenged. Liffman places current access claims in historical perspective, tracing Huichol communities’ long-term efforts to redress the inequitable access to land and other resources that their neighbors and the state have imposed on them. Liffman writes that “the cultural grounds for territorial claims were what the people I wanted to study wanted me to work on.” Based on six years of collaboration with a land-rights organization, interviews, and participant observation in meetings, ceremonies, and extended stays on remote rancherías, Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation analyzes the sites where people define Huichol territory. The book’s innovative structure echoes Huichols’ own approach to knowledge and examines the nation and state, not just the community. Liffman’s local, regional, and national perspective informs every chapter and expands the toolkit for researchers working with indigenous communities. By describing Huichols’ ceremonially based placemaking to build a theory of “historical territoriality,” he raises provocative questions about what “place” means for native peoples worldwide.

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024437464

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Labor Laws of the Various States, Territories, and the District of Columbia by United States. Bureau of Labor Pdf

Author : Thora Martina Herrmann,Thibault Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319250359

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Indigenous Peoples’ Governance of Land and Protected Territories in the Arctic by Thora Martina Herrmann,Thibault Martin Pdf

This book addresses critical questions and analyses key issues regarding Indigenous/Aboriginal Peoples and governance of land and protected areas in the Arctic. It brings together contributions from scientists, indigenous and non-indigenous researchers, local leaders, and members of the policy community that: document Indigenous/Aboriginal approaches to governance of land and protected areas at the local, regional and international level; explore new territorial governance models that are emerging as part of the Indigenous/Aboriginal governance within Arctic States, provinces, territories and regions; analyse the recognition or lack thereof concerning indigenous rights to self-determination in the Arctic; and examine how traditional decision-making arrangements and practices can be linked with governments in the process of good governance. The book highlights essential lessons learned, success stories, and remaining issues, all of which are useful to address issues of Arctic governance of land and protected areas today, and which could also be relevant for future governance arrangements.

Author : Paulina Ochoa Espejo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190074227

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On Borders by Paulina Ochoa Espejo Pdf

When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as beaches delimit a castaway's realm, so borders define the edges of a territory, occupied by a unified people, to whom the land legitimately belongs. Hence a territory is legitimate only if it belongs to a people unified by a civic identity. Sadly, this Desert Island Model of territorial politics forces us to choose. If we want territories, then we can either have democratic legitimacy, or inclusion of different civic identities--but not both. The resulting politics creates mass xenophobia, migrant-bashing, hoarding of natural resources, and border walls. To escape all this, On Borders presents an alternative model. Drawing on an intellectual tradition concerned with how land and climate shape institutions, it argues that we should not see territories as pieces of property owned by identity groups. Instead, we should see them as watersheds: as interconnected systems where institutions, people, the biota, and the land together create overlapping civic duties and relations, what the book calls place-specific duties. This Watershed Model argues that borders are justified when they allow us to fulfill those duties; that border-control rights spring from internationally-agreed conventions--not from internal legitimacy; that borders should be governed cooperatively by the neighboring states and the states system; and that border redrawing should be done with environmental conservation in mind. The book explores how this model undoes the exclusionary politics of desert islands.

Author : Margaret Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190222253

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A Political Theory of Territory by Margaret Moore Pdf

Our world is currently divided into territorial states that resist all attempts to change their borders. But what entitles a state, or the people it represents, to assume monopoly control over a particular piece of the Earth's surface? Why are they allowed to prevent others from entering? What if two or more states, or two or more groups of people, claim the same piece of land? Political philosophy, which has had a great deal to say about the relationship between state and citizen, has largely ignored these questions about territory. This book provides answers. It justifies the idea of territory itself in terms of the moral value of political self-determination; it also justifies, within limits, those elements that we normally associate with territorial rights: rights of jurisdiction, rights over resources, right to control borders and so on. The book offers normative guidance over a number of important issues facing us today, all of which involve territory and territorial rights, but which are currently dealt with by ad hoc reasoning: disputes over resources; disputes over boundaries, oceans, unoccupied islands, and the frozen Arctic; disputes rooted in historical injustices with regard to land; secessionist conflicts; and irredentist conflicts. In a world in which there is continued pressure on borders and control over resources, from prospective migrants and from the desperate poor, and no coherent theory of territory to think through these problems, this book offers an original, systematic, and sophisticated theory of why territory matters, who has rights over territory, and the scope and limits of these rights.

Author : George W. White
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0742530264

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Nation, State, and Territory by George W. White Pdf

Globalization seems to be making nation-states increasingly irrelevant, yet their number has continued to grow. New nation-states emerged out of the ruins of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; more still may come as Palestinians, Kurds, Chechens, and other peoples struggle tenaciously to establish their own. Through careful analysis White examines the origins, evolutions, and relationships of the world's nation-states to provide a better understanding of their interactions and conflicts.

Author : Clarence Edwin Carter,John Porter Bloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : United States
ISBN : OSU:32435023718349

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The Territorial Papers of the United States: Territory south of the Ohio River, 1789-1808 by Clarence Edwin Carter,John Porter Bloom Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Canal Zone
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020938176

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Panama Canal Treaty (disposition of United States Territory) by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers Pdf

Author : Peter Attema,Jorn Seubers,Sarah Willemsen
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789491431999

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Early states, territories and settlements in protohistoric Central Italy by Peter Attema,Jorn Seubers,Sarah Willemsen Pdf

This volume is the second of the series Corollaria Crustumina aimed at the publication of conference proceedings, doctoral theses and specialist studies concerning the Latin settlement of Crustumerium (Rome) and Italian protohistory. It contains multidisciplinary papers of an international group of archaeologists discussing new fieldwork data and theories of broad relevance to Italian archaeology and with specific relevance to the study of Crustumerium's settlement, cemeteries and material culture in light of the site's cultural identity.

Author : United States. Public Health Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2915390

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Proceedings, Annual Conference with State and Territory Health Officers with the U.S. Public Health Service by United States. Public Health Service Pdf