| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Les États-Unis entre local et mondial (The United States between local and global). By Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin. (Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2000. 288 pp. Paper, F 90, ISBN 2-7246-0814-3.) In French.

Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin, director of research of the French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and a teacher of political science at the University of Paris, has written extensively in French on the contemporary American city and metropolis, particularly on the recent history of the Los Angeles region. In a note in this work, she points out that French scholarship on politics and government in the United States has emphasized the nation-state, not the locality. Her study broadens this approach through a detailed study of recent metropolitan growth, government and public policy in relation to the federal system, and the kind of complexity in American government that in the Chicago metropolis, to cite an extreme example, has resulted in six counties and 270 municipalities performing governmental functions in an urban region of integrated economic and demographic patterns of growth. . . .

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