The main theme of this book is the complex relationship between government servants and the world around them and this is explored in a number of ways. The essa

Focuses on the complex relationship between government servants and the world around them. This title contains essays that include studies of the people who pla

Hannah demonstrates that the modernization of late nineteenth-century America was a spatial and geographical project.

How and why has government gotten bigger? “Should be a compulsory assignment for any seminar on modern political culture.” —The Journal of American Histor