00594nam 2200157z- 450 9910712486903321(CKB)5470000002493270(EXLCZ)99547000000249327020230509c1979uuuu -u- -engStrength of log bridge stringers after several year's use in southeast AlaskaUnited States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products LaboratoryMadison, WisBOOK9910712486903321Strength of log bridge stringers after several year's use in southeast Alaska3299885UNINA03276nam 2200781 a 450 991097413590332120240313080344.09781847797469184779746697818477947961847794793978178170305217817030519781847794802184779480710.7765/9781847794796(CKB)2560000000085836(EBL)1069707(OCoLC)818847508(SSID)ssj0000712750(PQKBManifestationID)12329900(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712750(PQKBWorkID)10650842(PQKB)11304510(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085834(OCoLC)960165141(MdBmJHUP)muse78073(Au-PeEL)EBL1069707(CaPaEBR)ebr10627227(CaONFJC)MIL843576(MiAaPQ)EBC1069707(DE-B1597)660963(DE-B1597)9781847794796(Perlego)1526786(EXLCZ)99256000000008583620110815d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDevolution and the Scottish Conservatives banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance /Alexander Thomas T. Smith1st ed.Manchester ;New York Manchester University Press Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan20111 online resource (167 p.)New EthnographiesNew ethnographiesDescription based upon print version of record.9780719095566 0719095565 9780719079696 0719079691 Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-149) and index.Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note to international readers; 1. Banal activism; 2. A Tory-free Scotland; 3. Dispelling Doonhamers: naming and the numbers game; 4. Making (a) difference: building the political machine; 5. The politics of irrelevance; 6. Disaggregating the secret ballot: electioneering and the politics of self-knowledge; 7. Counting on failure: Polling Day and its aftermath; 8. Return of the lesser-spotted Tory; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.This highly readable book is a unique, ethnographic study of devolution and Scottish politics as well as Party political activism more generally. It explores how Conservative Party activists who had opposed devolution and the movement for a Scottish Parliament during the 1990's attempted to mobilise politically following their annihilation at the 1997 General Election.New ethnographies.Decentralization in governmentScotlandScotlandPolitics and government21st centuryDecentralization in government320.9411Smith Alexander Thomas T(Alexander Thomas Telford)1813298MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974135903321Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives4366254UNINA