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Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka - Woodrow Wilson Center Press Ruble, Blair A. (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC)
Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka - Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Ruble, Blair A. (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC)
By comparing North America's, Russia's, and Japan's 'second cities' - Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka - Second Metropolis discloses the extent to which social fragmentation, frequently viewed as an obstacle to democratic development, actually fostered a 'pragmatic pluralism' that nurtured pluralistic public policies.
448 pages, 39 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 28, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521801799 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 484 |
| Dimensions | 237 × 159 × 36 mm · 846 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Hamilton, Lee H. |