Creating the american state: the moral reformers and the modern administrative world they made
Auteur :
Stillman, Richard
Éditeur :
The University of Alabama Press
ISBN :
9780817312091
Date de publication :
30 mai 2002
Dimensions :
21,7 x 15,1 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
333 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Reveals that the modern administrative state emerged from a complex base of ideas rather than as a result of a simple plan or cataclysmic event. The text argues that its origins lie in the lives of seven individuals who, in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, invented its various elements.