Search results for “[Subject: development-general]”

• Author(s): Peter Wagner • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely bel...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Haynes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic Development‘Development’ first emerged as a subject area in the second half of the twentieth century. After World War II, scho...

• Author(s): Anthony Payne • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - GeneralJust about everyone is 'for' development as an assumed 'good', yet few seem to have a concrete idea of what the term actually ent...

• Author(s): Andrew Schrank • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralBringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory, this book offers a user-friendly introdu...

• Author(s): Uma S. Kambhampati • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of development and the developing world. Written i...

• Author(s): Benjamin Selwyn • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - General The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population...

• Author(s): Adrian Leftwich • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe spectre of poverty, disease and ignorance still haunts much of the developing world today. But not everywhere....

• Author(s): Marshall Eakin • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaWhat is Latin American History? surveys the development of this vibrant and dynamic field of study in North America, Lat...

• Author(s): Carl Schmitt • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralWritten in the early stages of the Cold War by one of the most controversial political and legal thinkers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt...

• Author(s): Benjamin Selwyn • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - General The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population...

• Author(s): Bruce Haddock • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralBruce Haddock's lucid and original textbook combines historical and theoretical analysis, setting political thought in t...

• Author(s): Stuart Corbridge • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Economics • BISAC: GeneralTwenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor peo...

• Author(s): Peter Burke • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralWhat is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully upda...

• Author(s): Jeremy Black • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Military - GeneralThis book provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the rich military history of the nineteenth century. It takes a fresh appr...

• Author(s): Gilles Guiheux • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralWith a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world's second largest economy, China is a major player in th...

• Author(s): Armin Nassehi • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWe are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything - including...

• Author(s): Richard Lachmann • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralSociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emerge...

• Author(s): Bruce Haddock • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralBruce Haddock's lucid and original textbook combines historical and theoretical analysis, setting political thought in t...

• Author(s): Anna Dickson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis introductory textbook examines the role of the Third World and the processes of development from the study of int...

• Author(s): Paul Hopper • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationUnderstanding Development is the ideal introduction to the major issues and critical debates about development in the contemporary world. P...