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Book A Study of Territorial Organization in the United States

Download or read book A Study of Territorial Organization in the United States written by Charles Henry Meyerholz and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Human Territoriality

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  • Author : Robert David Sack
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release : 1986-11-06
  • ISBN : 9780521311809
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Human Territoriality written by Robert David Sack and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986-11-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986, this book demonstrates that territoriality for humans is not an instinct, but a powerful and often indispensable geographical strategy used to control people and things by controlling area. This argument is developed by analysing the possible advantages and disadvantages that territoriality can provide, and by considering why some and not others arise at particular times. Major changes are explored in the relationships between territory and society from primitive times to the present day, with special attention to the distinctions between premodern and modern uses of space and territory. Specific analyses of the pre-modern uses of territoriality are provided by the history of the Catholic Church, and, for the modern context, by study of North American political territorial organization and the organization of factory, office, and home.

Book A Study of Territorial Organization

Download or read book A Study of Territorial Organization written by Ernest M. Kuhinka and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Once Within Borders

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  • Author : Charles S. Maier
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2016-10-17
  • ISBN : 0674973917
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Once Within Borders written by Charles S. Maier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice of human societies. Master historian Charles S. Maier tracks the epochal changes that have defined territories over five centuries and draws attention to ideas and technologies that contribute to territoriality’s remarkable resilience. Territorial boundaries transform geography into history by providing a framework for organizing political and economic life. But properties of territory—their meanings and applications—have changed considerably across space and time. In the West, modern territoriality developed in tandem with ideas of sovereignty in the seventeenth century. Sovereign rulers took steps to fortify their borders, map and privatize the land, and centralize their sway over the populations and resources within their domain. The arrival of railroads and the telegraph enabled territorial expansion at home and abroad as well as the extension of control over large spaces. By the late nineteenth century, the extent of a nation’s territory had become an index of its power, with overseas colonial possessions augmenting prestige and wealth and redefining territoriality. Turning to the geopolitical crises of the twentieth century, Maier pays close attention to our present moment, asking in what ways modern nations and economies still live within borders and to what degree our societies have moved toward a post-territiorial world.

Book The Territorial Dimension Of Politics

Download or read book The Territorial Dimension Of Politics written by Ivo D. Duchacek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative study examines the dialectical tensions between global and regional interdependence and the fragmentation of humankind into territorial entities. Political authority may remain territory-bound, but borders increasingly are penetrated by pollutants, individuals, noncentral governments in search of foreign trade and investment, and transnational corporations, as well as the traditional exchanges of trade, media, and culture. The result of these transborder flows, accelerated by new technologies, is a new variety of international relations among “perforated sovereignties.†Dr. Duchacek analyzes the territorial organization of political authority in both democratic and authoritarian frameworks as well as in unitary and federal systems. Case studies focus on new forms of transborder interactions between neighboring countries, especially in North America and in Western Europe. The book is of major interest to scholars in the fields of political science and political economy. Quotations from a variety of political theorists and practitioners, illustrative diagrams, and maps make the book suitable for students of comparative politics, international relations, comparative federalism, and public policy.

Book Academic Tribes and Territories

Download or read book Academic Tribes and Territories written by Tony Becher and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaim for the first edition of Academic Tribes and Territories: '...Becher's insistence upon in-depth analysis of the extant literature while reporting his own sustained research doubled the thickness of the material to be covered...Academic Tribes and Territories is a superb addition to the literature on higher education...There is here an education to be had.' (Burton R. Clark, Higher Education) '...Becher's landmark work. The higher education community - both practitioners and educational researchers - need to assimilate and to heed the message of this important and insightful book.' (Alan E. Bayer, Journal of Higher Education) 'a bold approach to a theory of academic relations...The result is a debt to him {Becher} for all students of higher education.' (The Times Educational Supplement) 'a classic in its field...The book is readily accessible to any member of the academic profession, but it also adds significantly to a specialist understanding of the internal life of higher education institutions in Britain and North America. I confidently predict that it will appear prominently on citation indices for many years.' (Gareth Williams, Studies in Higher Education) How do academics perceive themselves and colleagues in their own disciplines, and how do they rate those in other subjects? How closely related are their intellectual tasks and their ways of organizing their professional lives? What are the interconnections between academic cultures and the nature of disciplines? Academic Tribes and Territories maps academic knowledge and explores the diverse characteristics of those who inhabit and cultivate it. This second edition provides a thorough update to Tony Becher's classic text, first published in 1989, and incorporates research findings and new theoretical perspectives. Fundamental changes in the nature of higher education and in the academic's role are reviewed and their significance for academic cultures is assessed. This edition moves beyond the first edition's focus on elite universities and the research role to examine academic cultures in lower status institutions internationally and to place a new emphasis on issues of gender and ethnicity. This second edition successfully renews a classic in the field of higher education.

Book Territorial Integrity in a Globalizing World

Download or read book Territorial Integrity in a Globalizing World written by Abdelhamid El Ouali and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive, highly informative and interdisciplinary study on territorial integrity and the challenges globalization, self-determination and external interventions present. This study aims at not only to fill an epistemological gap in this regard, but also answer the question of whether International Law is adequately equipped to help states address these challenges. The author argues that the biggest threat that many states are confronted with today is their disintegration rather than their obsolescence, and that International Law has not often been able to prevent that eventuality. In fact, states, when they were not destroyed by war, managed to survive, thanks to the flexibility of territoriality, i.e. their ability to adjust to difficult situations as they arose. It is this understanding of adaptation that urges an increasing number of states today to revive territorial autonomy and restore an original understanding of self-determination in which democracy is a pivotal factor in establishing congruence between the states and their nations. While this move is endorsed by International Law, it is not the case for globalization; for their own sake, proponents of globalization should recognize that the states are irreplaceable as long as they remain the sole providers of protection for their peoples.

Book Territorial Designs and International Politics

Download or read book Territorial Designs and International Politics written by Boaz Atzili and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Territory is back with a vengeance. Although territorial politics never really went away, it was often perceived that way in public discussion and among scholars. The territorial conflicts of the last several years, however, have raised new academic and policy questions, revived old debates that were nearly forgotten, and forced us to rethink many of our common conceptions. Social scientists broadly agree that territory, as well as the boundaries that confine it and group identity that relates to it, are socially constructed rather than natural or primordial. But how and through which mechanisms is the meaning of territory constructed? By whom? For which purposes and by what tools? Which forces influence such “territorial designs”? How do different territorial designs affect state behavior in particular, and the dynamics of international politics in general? This book brings together political scientists and geographers—both disciplines in which scholars have long researched such questions—to create a mutually fertilizing dialogue, which will advance our understanding of territorial designs. The authors tackle core theoretical questions, institutions and ideas of territoriality, borders, space, place, and identity, as well as the methodologies used to study them. They utilize case studies as far apart as the Ottoman Empire, the colonization of Ireland, and current day Middle East; and they interrogate the characteristics of spaces as different as land, air, and water. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance.

Book Shared Space  Divided Space

Download or read book Shared Space Divided Space written by Michael Chisholm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This specially commissioned volume of original essays, first published in 1990, provides a unique view of conflict, territorial behaviour and reconciliation between groups – social, racial, religious and nationalist – within states in both the developed and the developing worlds. The volume as a whole shows the wide range of geographical solutions which have been adopted in attempts to limit conflict and foster stability. This title underlines the importance of a geographical perspective on intergroup conflict and reconciliation, and provides a broad range of real-world experience in carefully chosen case studies. Shared Space: Divided Space will be of interest students of the social sciences as well as to general readers, who will find this title to be accessible and authoritative.

Book The Territorial Governors of the Old Northwest

Download or read book The Territorial Governors of the Old Northwest written by Dwight Gaylord McCarty and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When Fairness Fails

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  • Author : Christopher Stein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 59 pages

Download or read book When Fairness Fails written by Christopher Stein and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on territorial behaviors in organizations is an emerging field (Brown, Crossley, & Robinson, 2014). Current theoretical approaches to territoriality rely heavily on a psychological ownership perspective; however, there is a wealth of theory organizational scholars can integrate from other disciplines (Altman, 1975; Ardrey, 1965; Brown, Lawrence, & Robinson, 2005). The purpose of this dissertation is to integrate an evolutionary perspective into organizational scholarship to explore new antecedents of territoriality. This research draws upon uncertainty management theory to hypothesize a moderated-mediated model predicting territorial behaviors. A measurement instrument is developed to test territoriality and findings from a three-wave field study are presented. Theoretical implications for the construct are discussed and areas for future research are suggested.

Book Regionalism  Business Interests and Public Policy

Download or read book Regionalism Business Interests and Public Policy written by William D Coleman and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1989-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and assesses the importance of the relationship between regional protest movements and the territorial organization of business interests. Drawing on comparative research into business interest associations in nine countries in Europe and North America, the authors show that regional differentiation is an important feature of systems of business associations in all countries. This book includes case studies of countries where such movements are an important phenomenon - Spain, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Canada and the UK. It also includes contrasting studies from West Germany and the USA, where regional movements have not been a prominent feature of national political life.

Book Sub State Governance through Territorial Autonomy

Download or read book Sub State Governance through Territorial Autonomy written by Markku Suksi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-17 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on territorial autonomy, which is often used in different conflict-resolution and minority situations. Four typical elements are identified on the basis of the historical example of the Memel Territory and the so-called Memel case of the PCIJ; distribution of powers, participation through elections and referendums, executive power of territorial autonomy, and international relations. These elements are used for a comparative analysis of the constitutional law that regulates the position of six currently existing special jurisdictions, the Åland Islands in Finalnd, Scotland in the United Kingdom, Puerto Rico in the United States of America, Hong Kong in China, Aceh in Indonesia and Zanzibar in Tanzania. The current sub-state entities examined can be arranged in relation to Memel in a manner that indicates that Hong Kong and the Åland conform to the typical territorial autonomy, while Puerto Rico and Aceh should probably not be understood as territorial autonomies proper. At the same time, the territorial autonomies can be distinguished from federally organized sub-state entities.

Book The Birth of Territory

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  • Author : Stuart Elden
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2013-09-09
  • ISBN : 022604128X
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book The Birth of Territory written by Stuart Elden and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory. Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts such as sovereignty, rights, and justice. While territory continues to matter politically, and territorial disputes and arrangements are studied in detail, the concept of territory itself is often neglected today. Where did the idea of exclusive ownership of a portion of the earth’s surface come from, and what kinds of complexities are hidden behind that seemingly straightforward definition? The Birth of Territory provides a detailed account of the emergence of territory within Western political thought. Looking at ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and early modern thought, Stuart Elden examines the evolution of the concept of territory from ancient Greece to the seventeenth century to determine how we arrived at our contemporary understanding. Elden addresses a range of historical, political, and literary texts and practices, as well as a number of key players—historians, poets, philosophers, theologians, and secular political theorists—and in doing so sheds new light on the way the world came to be ordered and how the earth’s surface is divided, controlled, and administered. “The Birth of Territory is an outstanding scholarly achievement . . . a book that already promises to become a ‘classic’ in geography, together with very few others published in the past decades.” —Political Geography “An impressive feat of erudition.” —American Historical Review

Book A Study of the Organization of the Territory of Hawaii and Its Government Since 1891

Download or read book A Study of the Organization of the Territory of Hawaii and Its Government Since 1891 written by Edward Toshinobu Okubo and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Big Towns

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  • Author : Dzhaman Vasyl
  • Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
  • Release : 2015-03-13
  • ISBN : 9783659459504
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Big Towns written by Dzhaman Vasyl and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph considers scientific-methodical bases to help study a big town's territorial-functional organization and strategy of development. In the case of Chernivtsi: the town's territory assimilation and development specificities are disclosed; functional specialization of small taxonomic units (planning districts and zones) is defined; problems of and territorial disproportions in social-economic development are outlined; territory assimilation planning restrictions are assessed and alternatives for the town's further economic growth are discussed.

Book Geography and the Totemic Landscape  the Dieri Case

Download or read book Geography and the Totemic Landscape the Dieri Case written by Roderick S. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between Dieri social organization, including territorial and local group organization, and totemic geography; background including demographic estimates; earlier sources; kinship and analysis of place names based mainly on J.G. Reuther manuscript and H.J. Hillier map.