Second Metropolis - Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka - Blair A. Ruble - Hardback Bog - Cambridge
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
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.