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Title

Heads of the local state : mayors, provosts and burgomasters since 1800 / edited by John Garrard.

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Garrard, John.

Description

xv, 217 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Historical urban studies

Subject

• Municipal government > Europe > Case studies
• Local government > Europe > Case studies
• Mayors > Europe > Case studies
• Mayors > United States

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

English mayors : what are they for? / John Garrard -- The Scottish provost since 1800 : tradition, continuity and change in the leadership of 'local self-government' / Irene Maver -- Symbolism or substance? : the mayoralty in Northern Ireland / Colin Knox -- The mayoralty in the Republic of Ireland / Muiris MacCarthaigh and Mark Callanan -- The end of French mayors? / Olivier Borraz and Emmanuel Négrier -- The impact of the German occupation (1940-1944) on the Belgian and Dutch mayoralty / Nico Wouters -- Servants of the state, agents of the party, representatives of the people : the German mayoralty in the twentieth century / Anthony McElligott -- The mayoralty in Italy / James L. Newell -- From party and state domination to Putin's 'power vertical' : the subjugation of mayors in communist and post-communist Russia / Cameron Ross -- The mayor in American local government / Benjamin A. Lloyd, Donald F. Norris and Thomas J. Vicino -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 08-16

ISBN

• 9780754652625 (alk. paper)
• 0754652629 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007000575

OCLC

79001638

Title

Heads of the local state : mayors, provosts and burgomasters since 1800 / edited by John Garrard.

Imprint

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Series

Historical urban studies

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Added Author

Garrard, John.

Research Call Number

JFE 08-16