At the heart of the term nationalization is the act of converting a privately owned resource into one owned by the central government (or local government in the case of ‘municipalization’). One might then ask how the use and development of...

Nationalization or, as it is sometimes referred to, particularly in the USA, socialization, is the policy of taking firms, enterprises or whole industries into public ownership. In clause IVof its constitution, adopted in 1918, the British Labour Party...

The acquisition of privately owned enterprises by a government, with or without compensation. See also: nationalized industry; public...

United States 1917-1920 The nation's railroads were under government control during World War I. Some 360,000 miles of track and more than two million workers were directed by the United States Railroad Administration (USRA) from 26 December...

Nationalization, also spelled nationalisation, is the act of taking an industry or assets into the public ownership of a national government. Nationalization usually refers to private assets, but may also mean assets owned by lower levels of government,...

One of the first scholarly books on the American Civil War that this author ever read was Ella Lonn's classic Foreigners in the Union Army. I must have been in high school at the time, because some of my drawings from high school reflect...

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The nation honored Gerald R. Ford on Tuesday in a high-powered fanfare for the common man who was summoned to the presidency in the Watergate crisis. He was remembered for what he didn't have _ pretensions, a scheming agenda, a great golf game _ as...

The major bump up for Rivera comes right when Eliot Spitzer is about to (what's Hillary's phrase for this kind of thing?) drop the hammer on health care spending in New York, and, presumably, look for more federal aid to offset some of the costs....