The Little Platoons - Sub-Local Governments in Modern History

List of contents

Preface
Britain - The Vestiges of Parochial Administration
France - The Catholic, Radical, and Anarchist Commune
Germany - Medieval Localism Revived
The United States - Free Market Governments
China - Tradition and Totalitarianism
Russia - Sovietism, its Roots and its Remnants
Japan - Traditional Institutions Revitalized
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Topics

About the author

GEORGE W. LIEBMANN is a practicing lawyer in Baltimore and the author of Little Platoons: Sub-Local Governments in Modern History (Praeger, 1995) and numerous articles on constitutional and administrative law. He has been a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland Law School, and the University of Salford, and a Simon Industrial and Professional Fellow at the University of Manchester. In 1996, he was a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Product details

• Authors: George Liebmann
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.1995
• EAN: 9780275951788
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95178-8
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Japan, China, England, Russia, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Political structure & processes, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, United States of America, USA, Urban communities, Political structure and processes, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, Politics, Law, and Government: Comparative Politics