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East India Company and Trade in South India Madras 1746–1803

East India Company and Trade in South India Madras 1746–1803

This book presents the economic history of the English East India Company’s trade as it functioned from Madras (Chennai) during the second half of the 18th century. It traces the role of trade and commerce as followed by the European EICs to achieve their economic ends territorial expansion and control of productive resources. The author portrays the nature contents volume and changing trends of trade and commerce over a decisive period of Indian economic history. The volume discusses the chief constituents of trade in general exports investments imports and private trade and traders of Madras from 1746 to 1803. Rich in archival resources this is an essential resource for administrators students scholars and researchers of colonial history and modern Indian economic history besides British trade history. | East India Company and Trade in South India Madras 1746–1803

GBP 130.00
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Environmental Issues and Challenges

Environmental Issues and Challenges

This book explores the field of environmental studies emphasizing its multidisciplinary nature. It looks at the fundamentals of environmental conservation and the management of sensitive ecosystems. The book provides an overview of the basic concepts used to understand and study diverse ecosystems and their functions as well as the progressively larger yet mutually inclusive units such as the landscape and the biome. It examines the challenges towards preserving biodiversity which is under severe threat due to climate change exploitation of natural resources pollution and man-made disasters. Besides outlining the causes and effects the authors outline control mechanisms to keep pollution within safe limits and offer suggestions for resolving issues such as wildlife poaching and trade water and air pollution deforestation and biodiversity loss through policy changes. This book will be of interest to the students researchers teachers of environmental studies environmental science sociology political science and public administration. This book will also be useful to environmentalists wildlife conservationists and policy makers. | Environmental Issues and Challenges

GBP 130.00
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Geopolitics of Energy in Central Asia India's Position and Policy

Geopolitics of Energy in Central Asia India's Position and Policy

This book focuses on the geopolitics of Central Asia which has emerged as the new fertile ground for oil and energy resources. It analyses the scramble for energy and control over the region by many nations and their diplomatic manoeuvrings to ensure energy sufficiency and economic growth. The book provides a quantitative analysis of the Central Asian energy potential and offers an understanding of the unique position that each country occupies in the geopolitics of oil and energy in the region. It looks at aggressive foreign policies by countries like the US China the European Union Japan Israel Iran and Pakistan focusing primarily on India’s position and strategies in the region within the new great game. The book further examines the dynamics between Central Asia and India and India’s policies for geopolitical engagement and diversification of energy sources. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of political studies international relations economics sociology and Asian studies. It will also be useful for policymakers and professionals working in the field of energy security and geo-economics. | Geopolitics of Energy in Central Asia India's Position and Policy

GBP 38.99
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Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

This book provides a synoptic view of the Indian Ocean and maritime security in its contested waters. Using a historical approach it reveals vital links to events in the present day. The volume: Highlights the competition between major Asian powers to control the ‘String of Pearls’ — a reference to the Chinese attempts at controlling the Indian Ocean periphery. Shows that cooperation amongst the major powers of the region could abate the threat of the potential of conflict becoming global and inviting external intervention. Discusses India’s Look-East policy and the deepening relation between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Argues for the need of Indian Ocean states and particularly the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) members of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to look afresh at their political and security issues and common interests. Suggests measures for evolving a robust mechanism of maintaining the Indian Ocean as a sustainable zone of commerce energy security and peace rather than threat. A major contribution on a critical area in Asian geopolitics this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of international relations politics defence studies and maritime security studies along with strategic affairs experts and think tanks. | Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

GBP 34.99
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Abortion Rights Reproductive Justice and the State International Perspectives

Abortion Rights Reproductive Justice and the State International Perspectives

This book looks at the trajectories of reproduction and abortion rights in diverse socio-cultural contexts in various countries and the regional concerns which animate these discourses. Abortion as practice and rhetoric has historically drawn attention to the reproductive body in the public sphere. This book traces the continuities and discontinuities in the debates around abortion rights and its relationship with the State in different countries – US Korea China Poland Argentina Ireland India Bangladesh South Africa and New Zealand. It presents a comparative analysis that is grounded thematically around issues of race class technology politics and law through interactions with institutionalized religion and the state. Central to this endeavour is an understanding of feminist mobilization on issues of abortion rights in different cultural-historical contexts and its implications for the articulation of reproductive justice. For instance it looks at the specific and diverse ways in which religion and culture intersect with state practice and national identities; the emergence of social action activism and mobilization; the international politics of population control; and the place of reproductive justice and feminist resistance in processes of democratization. Lucid and topical this book will be of interest to students and researchers of gender studies sociology political science human rights policy around reproductive and women’s rights law and reproductive justice. | Abortion Rights Reproductive Justice and the State International Perspectives

GBP 44.99
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