by michaeld | Jun 19, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics
Is Nothing Ever Simple? By Mark H. Moore Harvard University Press, $59.95, 310 pages Mark H. Moore has continued his examination of public value that he began in two previous books: Creating Public Value in 1997 and Public Value Theory and Practice with...
by Site Owner | May 8, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
The Changing Idea of Who is a Citizen By Niraja Gopal Jayal Harvard University Press, $45.00, 376 pages The idea of citizenship, and who qualifies as a citizen of a state, stretches back to the rise of the nation-state in 1638. Each state had its own...
by Site Owner | May 8, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
Who Are the Worthy Poor? By Nicholas Terpstra Harvard University Press, $49.95, 400 pages What to do with the poor, the sick, the orphaned and the widowed? It’s a question that has bedeviled cities, nations and empires for centuries. It is not just a...
by Site Owner | May 7, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
The Role of Books By Sean Roberts Harvard University Press, $49.95, 336 pages With the rise of the printing press, books became more important than ever in the world of the Renaissance. It enabled people to adopt information from ancient sources, update...
by Site Owner | Apr 16, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
London of Yesteryear Revealed By Jerry White Harvard University Press, $39.95, 682 pages The title of Jerry White’s A Great and Monstrous Thing could refer not only to London in the 18th century, the focus of this monograph, but to the book itself....