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North Korea's Women-led Grassroots Capitalism

North Korea's Women-led Grassroots Capitalism

North Korea is in the throes of economic and social if not political transition. These changes have a pronounced gender dimension: the crisis of the command economy and the gradual emergence of an informal market economy where remarkably the vast majority of North Korea’s traders and merchants are women. This book examines the complex relationship between gender roles and economic and social changes in North Korea. The book based on extensive original research provides rich details of this development considers how women’s roles in North Korea have developed over time and highlights how women are driving change in other areas of North Korean life too including family relationships women’s sexuality and reproductive issues and women’s cultural identity. | North Korea's Women-led Grassroots Capitalism

GBP 130.00
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Indigenous Practice and Community-Led Climate Change Solutions The Relevance of Traditional Cosmic Knowledge Systems

Indigenous Practice and Community-Led Climate Change Solutions The Relevance of Traditional Cosmic Knowledge Systems

This book centers Indigenous knowledge and practice in community-led climate change solutions. This book will be one of the first academic books to use the consciousness framework to examine and explain humans' situatedness and role in maintaining ecosystems' health. Drawing on teachings from the Indigenous Adi-Shaiva community the authors present up-to-date research on meanings and implications of South Asian traditional cosmic knowledge which focuses on relationality and spirituality connected to climate change. This knowledge can create innovative climate change solutions in areas including land water traditional management sustainability goals and expectations and state development projects. Overall this book provides an innovative framework for nonviolent climate solutions which has its foundations in a traditional cosmic and consciousness-based context. This book which aims to bridge the gap between Indigenous and Western perspectives by re-educating researchers and decolonizing popular climate change solutions will be of great interest to students and scholars studying climate change conservation environmental anthropology and Indigenous studies on a broader scale. | Indigenous Practice and Community-Led Climate Change Solutions The Relevance of Traditional Cosmic Knowledge Systems

GBP 130.00
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The Chinese Defense Establishment Continuity And Change In The 1980s

The Chinese Defense Establishment Continuity And Change In The 1980s

Complex issues of national security and defense modernization continue to be a major preoccupation of the PRC leadership. In the 1970s especially during the second half of that crucial decade critical decisions were made that led to Beijing's alignment with the West against the USSR and a revitalization of its armed forces. This book looks at Chi | The Chinese Defense Establishment Continuity And Change In The 1980s

GBP 125.00
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Guerrillas and Combative Mothers Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa

Guerrillas and Combative Mothers Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa

Guerrillas and Combative Mothers is a narrative of women participating in the armed struggle against apartheid from 1961 to 1994 and their lives in a democratic South Africa. Focusing on their agency commitment beliefs and actions it describes how women got politicised and the decisions and circumstances that led them to join the armed struggle in South Africa and exile. Siphokazi Magadla discusses the forms of military training they received the combat activities and their transformation as women and soldiers. Magadla also talks about their participation in the South African National Defence Force-led demobilisation process and their contributions to the democratic transformation of the SANDF. By illuminating the different eras and arenas of their participation this book shows the broadness of the armed struggle against apartheid as a historical truth and as a matter of gender equality and justice for an inclusive and more democratic future. | Guerrillas and Combative Mothers Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa

GBP 130.00
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Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia (1998) examines the various attempts to create new forms of integration by the new states of Eurasia. The contributors to this volume analyse in detail how the national elites in the independent states conceived their regional policies. It looks in particular at the Russian-led Commonwealth of Independent States feared by many of the newly-independent nations as being the Soviet Union Mark II.

GBP 90.00
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From the Subprime Crisis to the Great Recession A Financial History of the United States 2006–2009

From the Subprime Crisis to the Great Recession A Financial History of the United States 2006–2009

Originally published in 2010 this book covers the development of the mortgage market the residential housing boom and bust that led to the subprime crisis and the effect of this crisis on financial institutions as well as the stock market panic of 2008. It details the massive government interventions that sought to prevent another Great Depression. | From the Subprime Crisis to the Great Recession A Financial History of the United States 2006–2009

GBP 170.00
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Russia and Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk A Global History of Maritime Travel and Cultural Encounters 1600-1900

Russia and Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk A Global History of Maritime Travel and Cultural Encounters 1600-1900

Bailey describes how the Sea of Okhotsk area became integrated into a world system of economic and cultural ties between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. This happened primarily because of maritime explorations travel and trade which led to increased connections with both Russia and Japan. Individual chapters of the book provide analyses of historical sources which describe cross-cultural encounters and changes in the Sea of Okhotsk area. This includes analyses of explorers and travelers who traversed the region for commerce exploration diplomacy and possible colonization. Historical sources are explored from the different perspectives of Russians Japanese Indigenous peoples and international observers from Western countries. Cross-cultural encounters in the region among these groups led to collaboration syncretism and resistance sometimes violent and sometimes peaceful. The last chapter discusses how some international travelers and foreign residents of Hokkaidō described the area at the end of the nineteenth century. Their perspectives confirm that Hokkaidō had become a fully colonized space. An essential resource for students and scholars of cross-cultural studies Russian history Japanese history and Ainu and Indigenous history. | Russia and Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk A Global History of Maritime Travel and Cultural Encounters 1600-1900

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Tracing Indo-Russian Diplomatic History

Tracing Indo-Russian Diplomatic History

The India-Russia relationship has been through a number of phases since its formal establishment in April 1947. Prime Minister Nehru’s strategic vision led him to seek diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union (USSR) even before India attained Independence. The enthusiastic Soviet response launched a relationship which has had some unique features in the past seventy-two years. The detailed history of the India-Russia relationship presented in this volume highlights the continued relevance of many of the factors that led to a close India-Russia bonding even while identifying the slip roads into which the partnership has occasionally drifted. Politics evolves continuously but geography remains constant. The India-Russia relationship has a mutually-recognized geopolitical logic. They have common concerns in the shared neighbourhood of West and Central Asia. Like India Russia has had a complex relationship with China. In the quest for a multi-polar world in which every pole seeks to protect its core interests and promote its aspirations Russia and India as this comprehensive volume notes will remain staunch partners in the foreseeable future. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka | Tracing Indo-Russian Diplomatic History

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The Asia Pacific War Impact Legacy and Reconciliation

The Asia Pacific War Impact Legacy and Reconciliation

This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (1931–1945) that was initially waged between Japan and China before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor drew in the U. S. led allied forces from 1941 to 1945. Part I of the book examines three interlocking components the origins of the war; its impact on combatants and civilians; and its short-term legacy including the huge changes that took place in the postwar governance of Japan. Part II explores the ongoing impact and legacy of the war for those in postwar Japan and later generations particularly through the examination of the ambiguity of state-led reconciliation with Japan’s neighbors the growth of dynamic civil reconciliation efforts and the prominent role of the arts in peace movements. Through a people-centered approach it filters historical events through the lens of the war’s impact on individuals who found themselves players within a larger frame of the social history of Japan and caught up in the international power dynamics of the nuclear age. Featuring studies of contemporary peace activism this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Modern Asian and U. S. History as well as those interested in postwar memory and reconciliation. | The Asia Pacific War Impact Legacy and Reconciliation

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Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Most famous in Europe for his efforts to establish the League of Nations under US leadership at the end of the First World War Woodrow Wilson stands as one of America’s most influential and visionary presidents. A Democrat who pursued progressive domestic policies during his first term in office he despised European colonialism and believed that the recipe for world peace was the self-determination of all peoples particularly those under the yoke of the vast Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires. His efforts to resist heavy reparations on Germany fell on deaf ears while the refusal of France Russia and Britain to accept a League of Nations led by America together with the US Senate’s refusal to ratify the League led to its ultimate failure. Woodrow Wilson has traditionally been seen by both admirers and critics as an idealist and a heroic martyr to the cause of internationalism. But John Thompson takes a different view arguing that Wilson was a pragmatist whose foreign policy was flexible and responsive to pressures and events. His conclusion that Wilson was in fact an exceptionally skilful politician who succeeded in maintaining national unity whilst leading America onto the world stage for the first time in its history offers a challenging interpretation for anyone interested in the man and his era.

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The Media as a Tool of International Intervention House of Cards

The Media as a Tool of International Intervention House of Cards

This book explores the role of external powers and international organisations in media assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through analysis of key documents media reports and interviews with key participants it examines the main actors their roles and the way in which they influenced the media and society. Bosnia and Herzegovina remains one of the biggest experiments in international intervention in modern history. Media assistance as well as international intervention was an enormous project which involved many donors and recipient organisations and large amounts of money but it is just one of many countries where democratisation and state-building took place with little to no input from the local community. Since the mid-1980s media assistance has been an integral part of international intervention used as a tool of democratisation in post-conflict countries and societies. The process is often led and created outside these countries and implemented by various international organisations led by technocrats and dictated by the will of donors. The author uses the case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina to assess this in a broader context. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of Southeast Europe international organisations peace-building and rebuilding society in post-war countries as well as journalists and policy-makers. | The Media as a Tool of International Intervention House of Cards

GBP 130.00
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Pakistan Fifty Years Of Nationhood Third Edition

Pakistan Fifty Years Of Nationhood Third Edition

Although it achieved independence in 1947 Pakistan still has not succeeded in integrating its diverse peoples into a nation?as its short yet turbulent history vividly demonstrates. The nation's search for stability is traced in this revised and updated introduction to Pakistan's political economic and social development. New chapters detail political developments since 1991 including the elections of 1993 and 1996. Economic changes including the financial crisis that led to the fall of Benazir Bhutto's government in 1996 are given particular attention. Also included is an extensive analysis of the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan an issue of global concern. | Pakistan Fifty Years Of Nationhood Third Edition

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Orientalism

Orientalism

At a crucial moment in the history of relations of East and West Orient and Occident Christianity and Islam Orientalism provides a timely account of the subject and the debate. In the 1960s and 1970s a powerful assault was launched on 'orientalism' led by Edward Said. The debate ranged far beyond the traditional limits of 'dry-as-dust' orientalism involving questions concerning the nature of identity the nature of imperialism Islamophobia myth Arabism racialism intercultural relations and feminism. Charting the history of the vigorous debate about the nature of orientalism this timely account revisits the arguments and surveys the case studies inspired by that debate.

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Liquid Architecture Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux

Liquid Architecture Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux

Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing. This book moves away from form as the primary driver of spatial protocols and explores what the built environment might look like when viewed through the lenses of a ‘wet ontology’ that is attentive to fluidity flows and territorial dynamism. A reconfiguration of architectural materials and authorship is thus considered leading in turn to an exploration of the ethical dimensions of co-designing with natural systems (of various viscosities) through liquid paradigms. The book examines a set of principles for practice-led discoveries that incorporate hybrid mixed media with the author’s intersubjective relationship with liquid matter. Drawing from qualitative-based analytical investigation models the text allows comprehension of the liquid phenomena via material contextualisation of an ever-becoming research setting. Through a practical and theoretical engagement with the ontology of liquids the reader is exposed to a range of design-led experiments and creative propositions visualisation systems construction and testing of physical models that collectively translate into a series of novel insights for architectural agendas. This book will be of interest to architecture and design research students and academics because it advocates the need for a more symbiotic and resilient approach to natural systems which could benefit from the integration of regenerating material flows into our buildings and urban settlements. | Liquid Architecture Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux

GBP 130.00
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From J.P. Morgan to the Institutional Investor A Financial History of the United States 1900–1970

From J.P. Morgan to the Institutional Investor A Financial History of the United States 1900–1970

Originally published in 2002 this is the second of three volumes in a history of finance in America. This volume starts with the investment bankers who dominated finance at the beginning of the twentieth century. It then describes the Panic of 1907 and the resulting creation of the Federal Reserve Board (the 'Fed'). The volume then traces finance through World War I and it examines the events that led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. From there it reviews the rebirth of finance after World War II and the growth of the institutional investor. | From J. P. Morgan to the Institutional Investor A Financial History of the United States 1900–1970

GBP 170.00
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International Competitiveness in Latin America and East Asia

International Competitiveness in Latin America and East Asia

First published in 1993. Latin America is undergoing a process of profound economic and social change. The industrial import substitution that continued for several decades was quantitatively successful in terms of industrialization but - like inward-oriented industrialization in the socialist countries - failed to raise the economies of the region to international productivity levels. The attempt at catch-up industrialization outside the reference frame of the world market led to economic stagnation social crises serious environmental degradation and the obstruction of social development. The following papers included in this book show that the development of competitive advantages is initially determined by the new macro policy and by modernization at enterprise level. | International Competitiveness in Latin America and East Asia

GBP 175.00
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Crime as Destiny A Study of Criminal Twins

Crime as Destiny A Study of Criminal Twins

First published in 1931 Crime as Destiny throws a beam of light across the darkness which enshrouds the study of the deeper causes of crime and the eternal debate between nature versus nurture. The author’s investigations led him to conclusions of the first importance to the sociologist and the psychologist. But the subject is wilder than it seems and by its direct bearing on the question of determinism will arouse the interest of the theologian and the student of philosophy as well. For the student of history this research work will help trace the beginning of the logic of eugenics that will eventually take its nightmarish form under Hitler. | Crime as Destiny A Study of Criminal Twins

GBP 99.99
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Generation Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa

Generation Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights gender and generational power. Drawing on a range of original empirical studies this book provides important new insights into the realities of regulating personal relationships in complex social fields in which customary practices are negotiated. This book not only adds to a fuller understanding of how customary practices are experienced in contemporary South Africa but it also contributes to a large discussion about the experiences impact and ongoing negotiations around changing structures of gender and generational power and rights in contemporary South Africa. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of sociology family/customary law gender social policy and African Studies. | Generation Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa

GBP 130.00
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From Psychoanalysis to the Group The Pioneering Work of Trigant Burrow

From Psychoanalysis to the Group The Pioneering Work of Trigant Burrow

This volume gathers a selection of psychoanalytic and group analytic essays by Trigant Burrow (1875-1950) precursor of group analysis and co-founder of the American Psychoanalytic Association. They show the development of the relational orientation in psychoanalysis and the origin and evolution of group analysis namely from drive to the relation and the group processes as the person's structure. The events that led Burrow from psychoanalysis to group analysis the censorship of the psychoanalytic orthodoxy the silence of group analysis and the distortions of historiography are reported in the editors' introductory essay. The book presents the richness and originality of the theoretic clinical and methodological themes developed by Burrow either in the psychoanalytic or the group analytic fields. | From Psychoanalysis to the Group The Pioneering Work of Trigant Burrow

GBP 130.00
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The Frankfurt School The Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno

The Frankfurt School The Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno

The Frankfurt School refers to a school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory particular established at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt Germany in 1923. Tarr's investigation focuses on three key issues. The first is the Frankfurt School's original program of providing a general theory of modern capitalist society. The second is the claim to represent a continuation of the original Marxian theory through the school's Critical Theory. The third is the scientific validity of Critical Theory in light of the generally accepted canons of the natural and social sciences. Tarr proposes that in the last analysis Critical Theory is simply another existentialist philosophy. As such it is a specific expression of certain socio-historical conditions and of the situation of a particular social group the marginal Jewish bourgeois intelligentsia of Central Europe. This European-Jewish contribution became apparent after the great metaphysical impulse of the pre-Socratic and Platonic-Aristotelian philosophies had run their respective courses. Both philosophies represented philosophical schools of ethics and both wanted to help man take up a defense against the storms of passions and fate. It was from these ancient sources that the Frankfurt School emerged. The Frankfurt School derived its impetus in the twentieth century in which Tarr claims a shift occurred from the ontological to the subjective realm. This in turn led to deep changes in philosophical theory and practice which led to a more psychologically oriented mode of social thought. This in-depth study covers the entire career of the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory from 1923 to 1974. It does so by applying the same standards of criticism to its primary doctrines as it turned on other theories but with a keen sense of balance and fairness. | The Frankfurt School The Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno

GBP 130.00
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Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese Dream’ China’s Renewed Foreign and Security Policy

Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese Dream’ China’s Renewed Foreign and Security Policy

Singh analyses the influence of Xi’s 'Chinese Dream' on China’s foreign relations and security postures. Xi Jinping’s rise has led to a paradigm shift in many aspects of China’s domestic and international politics. A key element of this has been the ideological vision shorthanded as the 'Chinese Dream' combining elements of nationalism Confucian ideology and economic expansionism. Singh evaluates the various changes in China’s nominally communist ideology in the post-Mao era with an emphasis on the implications for China’s economic and security relations with other countries. He particularly focusses on China’s approach to South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region key elements of China’s strategy. An insightful guide to understanding the direction of China’s foreign and security policy and especially its impact on India–China relations. | Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese Dream’ China’s Renewed Foreign and Security Policy

GBP 120.00
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