Author : Stephen J. Macekura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1316515885
Offers cutting-edge perspectives on how international development has shaped the global history of the modern world.
Author : Chow, Peter C.Y.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1800880162
Most colonies became independent countries after the end of World War II, while few of them became modernized even after decades of their independence. Taiwan is one of the few to become a modern state with remarkable achievements in its economic, socio-cultural, and political development. This book addresses the path and trajectory of the emergence of Taiwan from a colony to a modern state in the past century.
Author : Eve E. Buckley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1469634317
Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertão, plagued by chronic poverty, recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by politicians to seek out a technological magic bullet that would both end poverty and obviate the need for land redistribution to redress long-standing injustices.
Author : Stephen Macekura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107072611
Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.
Author : Azar Gat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198202462
In this scholarly and original study of military thought during the nineteenth century Azar Gat continues and expands the themes he explored in his previous book, The Origins of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to Clausewitz (Oxford Historical Monographs, 1989). The present volume spans the period from the aftermath of the Napoleonic era to the outbreak of the First World War. Encompassing Prussia/Germany, France, Great Britain, the United States of America and the Marxist theory later to gain sway in Russia, The Development of Military Thought focuses on the wider conceptions of war, strategy, and military theory which dominated the West in this period. Dr. Gat's penetrating analysis uncovers the intellectual assumptions and picture of the past which underlay military policy and practice.
Author : Ben Fine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134402333
The Post-Washington Consensus has succeeded in becoming the new theoretical underpinning for the World Bank's Structural Adjustment policies in developing countries. This broad-ranging critique explains that without a much broader political economy the Post-Washington Consensus is unlikely to provide a coherent framework for successful development policies. Development Policy in the 21st Century is unique in its depth and assesses the postures of the new consensus topic by topic, whilst posing strong alternatives. It will improve and stimulate the reader's understanding of this important area, and is highly recommended to advanced students and professionals
Author : Claudia Sunna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317219961
Development Economics has been identified as a homogeneous body of theory since the 1950s, concerned both with the study of development issues and with the shaping of more effective policies for less advanced economies. Development Economics in the Twenty-First Century brings together an international contributor team in order to explore the origins and evolution of development economics. This book highlights the different elements of ‘high development theory’ through a precise reconstruction of the different theoretical approaches that developed between the 1950s and the 1970s. These include the theory of balanced and unbalanced growth theory, the debate on international trade, the concept of dualism, dependency theory, structuralism and the analysis of poverty and institutions. The chapters highlight the relevance and usefulness of these analyses for the contemporary theoretical debate on development issues. Comparative perspectives are explored and analysed, including those of Keynes, Hirschman, Krugman and Stiglitz. The chapters situate development economics within current debates among economists and historians of economic thought, providing a platform for future research. This book is suitable for researchers and students with an interest in Development Economics, the History of Economic development and the Economics of Developing Countries.
Author : J. Peakman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 2003-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230512577
Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.
Author : Shanker Stuart King Barbara J Fogel Alan
Publisher :
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780511379185
A dynamic group of systems scientists consider novel ways to enhance human development worldwide.
Author : Vicki L. Gregory
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838917127
Packed with discussion questions, activities, suggested additional references, selected readings, and many other features that speak directly to students and library professionals, Gregory’s Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections is a comprehensive handbook that also shares myriad insightful ideas and approaches valuable to experienced practitioners. This new second edition brings an already stellar text fully up to date, presenting top-to-bottom coverage of the impact of new technologies and developments on the discipline, including discussion of e-books, open access, globalization, self-publishing, and other trends; needs assessment, policies, and selection sources and processes; budgeting and fiscal management; collection assessment and evaluation; weeding, with special attention paid to electronic materials; collaborative collection development and resource sharing; marketing and outreach; self-censorship as a component of intellectual freedom, professional ethics, and other legal issues; diversity and ADA issues; preservation; and the future of the field. Additional features include updated vendor lists, samples of a needs assessment report, a collection development policy, an approval plan, and an electronic materials license.
