Das Subsidiaritätsprinzip und seine Formulierung in "Quadragesimo anno" / Anton Rauscher -- Personal being and the principle of subsidiarity / William A. Frank -- Subsidiarität in ihrer Bedeutung für öffentliche Unternehmen / Bruno Kahl und Andreas Kerst -- Federalism and American politics :...

"In Empire of Commerce, Susan Gaunt Stearns takes readers back to a time when there was nothing inevitable about the United States' untrammeled westward expansion. Her work demonstrates the centrality of trade on and along the Mississippi River to the complex development of the political and...