TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manent,Pierre
TI  - Metamorphoses of the City
SN  - 9780674072947
AV  - HT113 
U1  - 307.7609 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - History
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - Municipal government
KW  - Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
N1  -  Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION: The Dynamic of the West --; I. THE ORIGINAL EXPERIENCE OF THE CITY --; II. THE ENIGMA OF ROME --; III. EMPIRE, CHURCH, NATION --; NOTES --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, from ancient city-states and empires to a universal church and the nation-state. But the nation-state is nearing the end of its line, Pierre Manent says, and what will supplant it remains to be seen
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726437
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