Regional / International studies Books
John Wiley and Sons Ltd China at the Crossroads
Book SynopsisThis concise and timely book, written by one of the worlda s leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead.Trade Review"In this concise work, Peter Nolan provides a compelling and provocative assessment of China’s developmental challenge. As Nolan shows, it is not just China, but indeed the whole world, that stands at the crossroads. New rules, new technologies and a new global distribution of power have all called into question traditional answers to the problem of underdevelopment. China, to a greater degree perhaps than any other nation, has the potential to uncover a new path toward modernity. As Nolan points out, the consequences of its doing so, breathtaking as they are, would easily be dwarfed by the catastrophe of its failing to do so." Edward Steinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Peter Nolan has produced a bold, readable and fast-paced work which asks large and important questions. He begins with a brilliant sketch of post-Mao China's enormous achievements and extraordinary challenges. After presenting the path of neo-liberalism as no solution for China, Nolan powerfully depicts the lasting lessons of the unique and glorious successes that were China's in the ages before the rise of Europe. He concludes with an innovative and insightful argument that, properly understood, the way ahead for China lies in synthesizing and building on the best in ethical thinking and economic analysis shared by Confucius and Adam Smith. Nolan has produced a mind-expanding tour de force." Edward Friedman, University of Winsconsin "This is an important book written in the tradition of The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Rare in the political economy literature, it is simultaneously sweeping and detailed, rigorous and moving." Lin Chun, Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics "This is a very readable book, full of interesting historical information on China, extensive literature refrences to works by Confucius, Marco Polo and Adam Smith (to mention but a few) and wise comments on the direction China should take at this critical juncture." Piiter Bottelier, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Prologue. 1. The Challenges to China’s Economic and Political Stability: Can China Build a Sustainable and Civilized Modern Economy?. 2. China at the Crossroads: Which Directions?. 3. China at the Crossroads: 'Use the Past to Serve the Present' (Gu Wei Jin Yong). Conclusion. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Conservative Party From Thatcher to Cameron
Book SynopsisThe Conservatives are back, and back with a bang two election wins in a row and, providing they can hold things together, in a pretty good position to win another. But many questions about their recent past, present, and future still remain.Trade Review 'This fully updated survey is, more than ever, the indispensable study on the recent history of the party, confirming Tim Bale as the best political historian writing today.' Matthew d�Ancona, columnist, The Guardian and the Evening Standard 'Tim Bale�s study of the Conservatives is a closely argued account of the party�s journey from Thatcher to the present day, and will prove essential reading for anyone interested in politics.' John Bercow 'An extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary era. It reads so well and it rings so true.' Gyles Brandreth Table of Contents Contents 1 SOLVING THE PUZZLE: AN INTRODUCTION 2 LOSING THE PLOT: THATCHER TO MAJOR, 1989-1997 3 TACTICS OVER STRATEGY: WILLIAM HAGUE, 1997-2001 4 �SIMPLY NOT UP TO IT� : IAIN DUNCAN SMITH, 2001-2003 5 LIKE MOTHS TO A FLAME: MICHAEL HOWARD, 2003-2005 6 �COMETH THE HOUR, COMETH THE DAVE� THE LONG LEADERSHIP CONTEST, MAY-DECEMBER 20051 7 �THE POLITICS OF AND� : OPPOSITION, 2005-2010 8 �THE NATIONAL INTEREST� COALITION AND MAJORITY GOVERNMENT, 2010-2015 9 GETTING THE MESSAGE: A CONCLUSION
£41.25
John Wiley & Sons Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian
Book SynopsisDisputes the notion that the north is a source of distinct collective identity for Canadians. Through a synthesis of critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to northern subjects in literary studies, this title challenges the epistemology used to support this idea.Trade Review"This book is astonishing. It displays a commodious and yet incisive mind, a generous but critical aptitude, a far-ranging eclectic engagement with North that never slips into generalization or interdisciplinary evasion. In a breath-taking variety of texts from the obvious to the obscure, Hulan gathers an argument about the extent to which their authority is grounded in assumptions of gender and race ... This book will take its place as a significant voice in an ongoing debate." John Moss, author of Enduring Dreams: An Exploration of Arctic Landscape; "An important addition to previous works, analysing the concept of "northern identity" and how it has evolved over the years." Shelagh Grant, Department of Canadian Studies, Trent University, Traill College
£24.69
John Wiley & Sons Exiles and Islanders The Irish Settlers of
Book SynopsisDescribes Irish settlement in Prince Edward Island from 1763 to 1880. By tracing the history of these early settlers, this book dispels the myth that the Island's Irish settlers were largely refugees from the Great Potato Famine. It enables readers to learn about settlers' hometowns in Ireland.Trade Review"O'Grady's analysis of the patterns of immigration and the course of settlement on Prince Edward Island to be convincing, comprehensive, accurate, and suggestive. His work on the Monaghan Irish has been groundbreaking, and his tracing of the ties between southeastern Ireland and Prince Edward Island was new and enlightening. This book solidifies O'Grady's past work on the role played by Newfoundland and has added material on the earliest, most piecemeal phase of Irish immigration, for which there is no easily discernible pattern." Edward MacDonald, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island
£999.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Vasil Bykau
Book SynopsisConsidered the best modern Belarusan writer and the last Eastern European literary dissident, Vasil Bykau' (1924-2003) is referred to as the 'conscience of a nation' for leading an intellectual crusade against Lukasenka's totalitarian regime. This title describes the conditions under which Bykau lived in the former USSR.Trade Review"I hold Vasil Bykau in high regard as an opponent to totalitarian regimes in Belarus. During our encounter he never lost hope for positive changes in his country's future. I feel a certain correlation between our destinies and I regret that he was not lucky enough to experience changes, unlike those of us in Czechoslovakia, Poland, or Hungary." Vaclav Havel "This timely biography is essential reading." Arnold McMillin, professor of Russian Literature, University College London
£63.00
John Wiley & Sons Des soci233t233s distinctes Gouverner les
Book SynopsisA political and social history of suburban governance on the island of Montreal.
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John Wiley & Sons Chinas Urban Future and the Quest for Stability
Book SynopsisAssessing Chinese cities and urbanization in a time of slowing economic development, rising inequality, and unprecedented mobility.
£28.80
Cornell University Press The Patriotism of Despair
Book SynopsisThe sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents had lived with all their lives. How did Russians make sense of these historic transformations? Serguei Alex. Oushakine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in Russia.In Barnaul, a major industrial city in southwestern Siberia that has lost 25 percent of its population since 1991, many Russians are finding that what binds them together is loss and despair. The Patriotism of Despair examines the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, graphically described in spray paint by a graffiti artist in Barnaul: We have no Motherland. Once socialism disappeared as a way of understanding the world, what replaced it in people''s minds? Once socialism stopped orienting politics and economics, how did capitalism insinuaTrade ReviewThe Patriotism of Despair brilliantly demonstrates that 'culture matters more than ever' during periods of societal transformation. Serguei Oushakine investigates a range of groups—nationalist activists and intellectuals, war veterans and soldiers' mothers—that form communities of loss around symbolic representations and ritual enactments of shared trauma in Russia. Based on fieldwork from 2001–2003 in the city of Bernaull in Southwestern Siberia, the book provides a rare glimpse of culture in a Russian province (most other ethnographies are based in Moscow or St. Petersburg).... The Patriotism of Despair is one of the most significant works on post-Soviet culture to date, showing how trauma is not simply limiting, but generative—of communities and of understandings of what happened, what it means, and what to do. This ambitious undertaking... engages an impressive array of evidence: analyzing interviews, recounting rituals, excavating archives, and interpreting photographs. -- Jane Zavisca * Contemporary Sociology *Drawing on return visits to Barnaul, his boyhood city, near the Chinese and Kazakh borders, he paints a profound psychological tableau of coping. His groupings are diverse: disgruntled leftists, whom he labels 'neocoms'; Chechen war veterans; and the mothers of dead soldiers. All, however, find meaning and community in narratives of tragedy.... From Oushakine's keen reading, one gets a sense of how, for a still wider circle of Russians, collapse and disorder led to alienation from the Western values that Russian reforms had tried to sell them, which then for some shaded into anti-Semitism and a crude nationalism. * Foreign Affairs *
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University of Toronto Press Urban Housing Markets
Book SynopsisThe Conference on Urban Housing Markets sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in October 1977 was the first major conference on housing to be held in Canada since the First Canadian Housing Conference sponsored by the Canadian Welfare Council in 1968.This volume is at once a record of the Conference and a review of important recent research on urban housing markets and related public policy issues. The book captures the flavor of a lively debate between academics and policy analysts, and the commentaries and discussion sections provide, in non-technical language, a statement of some major questions confronting government policy on housing.In addition to its use as a record of an important Canadian conference, the book is a valuable collection of recent housing research. The ten papers cover a wide variety of topics ranging from conceptual and methodological issues on the one hand to critiques of Canadian housing policies on the other. They indicate th
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University of Toronto Press Eastern and Western Perspectives
Book SynopsisThe Atlantic Canada and Western Canada Studies Conferences have focused attention in recent years on the culture and development of two widely separated regions which have been frequently ignored in studies of the Canadian nation. The Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, meeting in 1974 and 1976 at the University of New Brunswick, and the Western Canadian Studies Conference, meeting annually since 1968 at the University of Calgary, have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines to study the identities and characteristics of these two hinterlands. In 1978 the two conferences met jointly, in a session in Fredericton and one at Calgary with a core of speakers and papers common to both. The purpose was to compare and contrast subjects and experiences of interest and concern in the west and in Atlantic Canada. The ten papers which comprise Eastern and Western Perspectives are selected from twenty-seven presented at the joint conference.The topic chosen not on
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MY - University of Toronto Press The First Voyage Around the World 15191522
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MY - University of Toronto Press Italian Cultural Lineages
Book SynopsisIdeally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineages will prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike.
£33.30
Louisiana State University Press Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective
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Louisiana State University Press A Louisiana Coastal Atlas
Book SynopsisThrough a wide range of demographic, economic, social, and environmental data, A Louisiana Coastal Atlas shows cartographically how the inherent resilience of coastal communities manifests itself over time.
£54.40
Louisiana State University Press Lees Tigers Revisited
Book SynopsisUses letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles, and muster rolls to provide a detailed account of the origins, enrollments, casualties, and desertion rates of the Army of Northern Virginia. Illustrations chart the Tigers' positions on key battlefields in the tumultuous campaigns throughout Virginia.
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LSU Press Bourbon Street
Book SynopsisA fascinating investigation into the mile-long urban space that is Bourbon Street, Richard Campanella’s comprehensive cultural history spans from the street’s inception during the colonial period through three tumultuous centuries, arriving at the world-famous entertainment strip of today.Trade ReviewIn this lively blend of narrative microhistory and data-driven urban geography, Tulane University geographer Richard Campanella takes readers on a guided tour of New Orleans's Bourbon Street, from its eighteenth-century origins on a French colonial planning map through its post–World War II transformation into the popular tourist attraction of today. . . . Campanella's close readings of archival records and painstakingly collected data offer valuable insights into Bourbon Street's origins and persistence as an iconic streetscape rooted in history, geography, and collective memory." - Journal of Southern History
£24.65
University of Pennsylvania Press Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament
Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.Table of ContentsPreface Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament PT. I. THE POSTCOLONIAL PREDICAMENT AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY 1. The Foreign Hand: Orientalist Discourse in Sociology and Communalism 2. Orientalism and the Social Sciences 3. Deep Orientalism? Notes on Sanskrit and Power Beyond the Raj 4. The Burden of English 5. Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literatures PT. II. THE GENEALOGY OF THE POSTCOLONIAL 6. The Fate of Hindustani: Colonial Knowledge and the Project of a National Language 7. British Orientalism in the Eighteenth Century: The Dialectics of Knowledge and Government 8. Orientalist Empiricism: Transformations of Colonial Knowledge 9. Colonial Histories and Native Informants: Biography of an Archive 10. Number in the Colonial Imagination List of Contributors Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Human Rights the Rule of Law and Development in
Book SynopsisThis volume makes a significant contribution to the debate about the connections between the protection of human rights and the pursuit of economic development in Africa.
£49.30
University of Pennsylvania Press Death Beauty Struggle
Book SynopsisDeath, Beauty, Struggle contains an original vision of gendered lives, poetry, devotion, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu.Trade Review"This is the work of the most important anthropologist working in South India and Tamil-speaking Sri Lanka in the past fifty years." * Martha Ann Selby, University of Texas at Austin *"This book displays the full range of Trawick's ethnographic artistry: her acute attentiveness to feelings, to linguistic nuances, to fragile bonds, to fierce commitments, to the ways lyrical composition and storytelling articulate otherwise suppressed struggles." * Ann Grodzins Gold, from the Foreword *Table of ContentsForeword, by Ann Grodzins Gold Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Māriamman Chapter 2. Sorrow and Protest Chapter 3. Work and Love Chapter 4. On the Edge of the Wild Chapter 5. The Life of Sevi Chapter 6. The Song of Siṅgammā Conclusion Notes Glossary of Tamil Words and Phrases References Index Acknowledgments
£63.00
University of Pennsylvania Press Shiptown
Book SynopsisJahazpur is a small market town or qasba with a diverse population of more than 20,000 people located in Bhilwara District in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. With roots deep in history and legend, Shiptown (a literal translation of landlocked Jahazpur''s name) today is a subdistrict headquarters and thus a regional hub for government services unavailable in villages. Rural and town lives have long intersected in Shiptown''s market streets, which are crammed with shopping opportunities, many designed to allure village customers. Temples, mosques, and shrines attract Hindus and Muslims from nearby areas. In the town''s densely settled center—still partially walled, with arched gateways intact—many neighborhoods remain segregated by hereditary birth group. By contrast, in some newer, more spacious residential areas outside the walls, persons of distinct communities and religions live as neighbors. Throughout Jahazpur municipality a peaceful pluralism normally prevails.Trade Review"Gold provides a rich, textured account of ethnographic practice, deeply situated in the peculiarities of Jahazpur. . . . Shiptown is a book filled with juicy vignettes, captivating narratives, and colourful conversations as Gold documents, analyses, and produces knowledge about life in Jahazpur. . . . Gold has been able to bring Jahazpur to life on the pages through lucid prose and a seamless flow of the text." * Economic & Political Weekly *"Shiptown is closely observed and beautifully written. Gold's lucid, engaging tone glides lightly over impressive scholarship." * Contributions to Indian Sociology *"Gold effortlessly describes many facets of rural/urban life of Jahazpur which she aptly calls 'Shiptown.' . . . The book is full of ethnographic and methodological insights from an accomplished ethnographer." * Nidān:International Journal for indian Studies *"Ann Grodzins Gold's prose is beautiful and often poignant, drawing the reader into public and domestic spaces, and oral histories and everyday conversations of Jahazpur. She lays bare the contingencies and daily decisions of fieldwork itself. Very few ethnographies are so honest." * Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University *
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Rutgers University Press Headline Hollywood A Century of Film Scandal In
Book SynopsisHollywood has a long association with scandal - with covering it up, with managing its effects, and, in some cases, with creating and directing it. This text considers some of the famous transgressions that shocked Hollywood and its audiences during the last century.
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Istanbul Living with Difference in a Global City
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Istanbul focus on the city’s connection to massive migration and globalization over the last two centuries, exploring the rise, collapse, and rebirth of cosmopolitan thinking and behaviors, and trying to sort out what functions as cosmopolitanism and what fails to live up to that term. Trade Review"Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City presents a theoretically-guided framing of the city as a site of cosmopolitan intersections from the nineteenth century to the present and is a significant contribution to the field." -- Erdag Göknar * author of Nomadologies *"Are ‘global cities’ an antidote to populism and nationalism? Istanbul offers some hope" by Nora Fisher Onar * Washington Post *"An interesting and thoroughly researched edited volume about Istanbul." * Middle East Journal *"This book offers an interesting and somewhat offbeat look at Istanbul with the desire to combine diverse approaches to history and anthropology....The book also shifts the gaze to the urban and architectural transformation of Istanbul on which there has been a plethora of academic research. Instead, it emphasizes the perception and use of space by different people and communities, and this may be one of the great strengths of this book." * Émulations –Revue de sciences sociales *
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Native American Faith in America
Book SynopsisThe variety of people who lived in America prior to Western migration possessed an equal variety of faith practices and beliefs. This work is about how those beliefs began, how they changed due to the influence of outside forces, and how Native Americans today are working to preserve their faiths.
£25.46
University of Arizona Press The Affinity of the Eye
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University of Arizona Press Orientalism and Identity in Latin America
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University of Arizona Press Seriously Funny
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University of Minnesota Press Utopias Of Otherness Nationhood And Subjectivity
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPortugal : ideas of empire and nationhood -- Brazilian national identity : intellectual debates and changing cultural realities -- Subjectivities and homoerotic desire in contemporary Brazilian fiction : the nation of Caio Fernando Abreu -- Women's difference in contemporary Portuguese fiction : the case of Maria Isabel Barreno -- Worlds in transition and utopias of otherness.
£19.79
The University of Alabama Press Southern Women Playwrights New Essays in Literary
Book SynopsisThis collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together criticism on some important playwrights of the 20th century, including Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Lillian Hellman, as well as less studied writers such as Naomi Wallace.Trade ReviewOn issues of originality and significance, I am not aware that this collection has a rival in the market-place. - Milly Barranger, author of Southern Playwrights: A Perspective on Women Writers
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Unitarianism in the Antebellum South The Other
Book SynopsisExamines Unitarianism's position as an influential religious movement in the early history of the Antebellum South. By looking at, among other things, benevolent societies, lay meetings, professional activity, intellectual forums, business partnerships, and literary correspondence, Macaulay sees a much greater Unitarian presence than has been previously recognized.Trade Review“Macaulay does an excellent job of showing how much northern and southern Unitarianism diverged in the antebellum period. His argument that southern Unitarianism should be considered an independent denominational and intellectual movement is a convincing contribution to southern religion history.” — Journal of Southern History“Trained in both theology and history, John Macaulay has provided in this work strong correctives to the commonly held views that southern Unitarianism was merely a New England offshoot and that southern religion was generally only of the heart, not the head. His book clearly demonstrates the errors in these overly simplistic, conventional views.” — Georgia Historical Quarterly“Macaulay's book deserves attention for its clear delineation of the intellectual and scriptural foundations of Unitarianism and, especially, for its common sense arguments on the ways social relationships made the few Unitarians a force in southern urban culture and benevolence.” — Florida Historical Quarterly""John Macaulay sculpts the southern face of antebellum American Unitarianism with clarity, empathy, and discernment. Macaulay's almost startling portrait resurrects one of the South's most elusive, itriguing spiritual groups even as it illustrates Unitarainism's unexpected adaptability in the South and the region's intriguing spiritual diverisity. This is a subtle, superbly researched, engagingly written book that rejuvenates a fascinating chapter of pre-Civil War southern history."" — Jon Butler, Yale University
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Ohio University Press Mountain People in a Flat Land
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Ohio University Press Teller Tales
Book Synopsis“All my work fits in my mouth,” Jo Carson says. “I write performance material no matter what else the pieces get called, and whether they are for my voice or other characters’ voices … they are first to be spoken aloud.”Trade Review“Jo Carson is one of the nation’s premier playwrights and storytellers. Her roots as a writer reach back to the American traditional narrative styles, and her dramatic works drawn from American frontier history are brilliant in their originality.”“Jo Carson is one of Appalachia’s most gifted and original playwrights.” * Journal of Appalachian Studies *“Carson deftly leads the Teller Tales audience through the thicket, occasionally and suddenly bringing us out into a linguistic clearing before plunging us back into the laurel. This narrative inventiveness makes reading Teller Tales an exhilarating experience.” * Appalachian Journal *“This work is not a standard history text. Instead, it is an engaging, almost poetic, pair of narratives that relate historic events told as though the reader is a guest at a kitchen table. Perfect as an easy supplemental read for high school or college history classes, or for any history buff.”
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Ohio University Press Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment
Book SynopsisNegotiating a Perilous Empowerment blends literacy studies with literary criticism to analyze the central female characters in the works of Harriette Simpson Arnow, Linda Scott DeRosier, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith.Trade Review“Abrams Locklear honors the complexity of Appalachian identity by presenting a comprehensive and suitably multi-dimensional look at what it means to be a literate Appalachian woman….” * Studies in American Culture *“An important and revealing portrayal of Appalachian women that works to challenge stereotypes, (Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment) raises questions about the difficulties of negotiating multiple literacies.” * Journal of American Culture *“Informed by literacy theory, Locklear’s analysis is further enhanced by her interviews with DeRosier and Smith, which she includes in this volume. This is a thoughtful contribution to Ohio University Press’s ‘Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia.’’ * Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries *“Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment is the best study we have to date of the ways in which becoming literate is always a way of becoming a new kind of person. In the process, there is always gain and loss. As people change who they are, they come to see who they were differently. This dilemma is general, but is rendered moving, visible, and real in this striking book.”“In Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment, Erica Abrams Locklear carefully explores what happens when a modern, monolithic, metropolitan literacy is imposed upon residents of the Appalachian South. With great insight, she shows that such literacy, offered as a gift to presumed illiterates, in fact threatens lettered ways of knowing and being that are well adapted to the region’s traditional social arrangements. Understanding in particular how women writers respond to this threat—which for them is also sometimes an opportunity—adds much to what we know about the complex legacies of literacy.” * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *“From many perspectives, Erica Abrams Locklear explores the cultural, social, and psychological complexities of literacy with clarity and compassion: an absorbing and enlightening study.”
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Ohio University Press Appalachia in the Classroom
Book SynopsisAppalachia in the Classroom presents topics and teaching strategies for a twenty-first century dialogue about Appalachia that reflect the diversity found within the region. It offers a critical resource and a model for engaging place in various disciplines and at several different levels in a thoughtful and inspiring way.Trade Review“Designed to serve as a pedagogical tool for instructors at postsecondary institutions, this book provides how-to strategies for teaching the literature and culture of Appalachia to students who may or may not live in the area…. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * Choice *“This volume does many things well. Essays in this work serve as primers on Appalachian history, on folklore and the oral tradition, on ecocriticism, and on service-learning.”“The fourteen essays in this fine new collection remind us that ‘teaching the region’ can be about far more than understanding the history, circumstances, and cultural production of a particular set of counties in the eastern United States. … Its broadest value… may be as a meditation on the nature of teaching and learning, and in particular, the teaching of critical thinking and the subversion of unexamined notions of how the world is made.” * Journal of Appalachian Studies *“In this book, (Burriss and Gantt) have engaged some of the region’s foremost post-secondary teachers to share their best ideas for teaching about the region. For example, John C. Inscoe on teaching history, Erica Abrams Locklear and Jeff Mann on teaching literature, Ricky L. Cox on teaching the novel, and Grace Edwards on teaching poetry.” * Appalachian Heritage *Table of Contents* Dedication and Acknowledgments * Introduction * Part One: Creative Teaching of Appalachian History * One. Intro to Appalachian Studies: Navigating Myths of Appalachian Exceptionalism Emily Satterwhite * Two. Listening to Black Appalachian Laundrywomen: Teaching with Photographs, Letters, Diaries, and Lost Voices Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt * Three. The Southern Highlands according to Hollywood: Teaching Appalachian History through Film John C. Inscoe * Part Two: Appalachian Literature and Folktales in and out of the Classroom * Four. Building Bridges with Ron Rash's The World Made Straight: Results from One University and High School Partnership Erica Abrams Locklear * Five. The Feast Hall, the Arsenal, and the Mirror: Teaching Literature to Students at Risk Jeff Mann * Six. I Hear Appalachia Singing: Teaching Appalachian Literature in a General Education American Literature Course Linda Tate * Seven. "Way Back Yonder" but Not So Far Away: Teaching Appalachian Folktales Tina L. Hanlon * Part Three: The Novel in Appalachia * Eight. Teaching Modern Appalachia in Wilma Dykeman's The Far Family Patricia M. Gantt * Nine. Fred Chappell's I Am One of You Forever as a Subject for Literary Analysis and an Alternative Image of Mid-Twentieth-Century Appalachia Ricky L. Cox * Ten. Startling Morals: Teaching Ecofiction with Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer Felicia Mitchell * Part Four: Appalachian Poetry and Prose * Eleven. Appalachian Poetry: A Field Guide for Teachers R. Parks Lanier Jr. * Twelve. From Harlem Home to Affrilachia: Teaching the Literary Journey Theresa L. Burriss * Thirteen. Teaching the Poetry and Prose of Marilou Awiakta grace Toney Edwards * Fourteen. Toward "Crystal-Tight Arrays": Teaching the Evolving Art of Robert Morgan's Poetry Robert M. West * Contributors * Index
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Ohio University Press Shake Terribly the Earth
Book SynopsisIn a thoughtful, humorous voice born of Appalachian storytelling, Childers brings to life family tales that affected the entire region to make sense of her personal journey and find the joy and clarity that often emerge after the earth shakes terribly beneath us.Trade Review“Beautifully written, nostalgic, and indeed unique, this work will be welcomed by those who enjoy memoir or American regional history and by anyone interested in Appalachian culture.” * Library Journal *“A clear hallmark of memoir is allowing the reader to experience the author's moments of realization with her as it happens, but it requires a brave writer to share something so raw and unfiltered, and Childers does so without pause.” * Appalachian Heritage *“[Childers] weaves together complex characters, a culture shaped by faith and music, and vibrantly imagined settings to both capture and complicate an often misunderstood facet of Appalachian culture—fundamental Christianity.” * West Virginia Living *“Childers’s collection of carefully arranged family vignettes reveals a master storyteller sharing the tales of her yarn-spinning clan over the generations.” * “Around Cincinnati,” WVXU-NPR *“Nearly all of us have our own full share of childhood memories. But few of us are willing—or able—to dig as deep into our store of memories as does Sarah Beth Childers in her impressive new memoir, Shake Terribly the Earth.” * Charleston Gazette *“A tightly connected collection of essays….” * ForeWord Reviews *“Shake Terribly the Earth announces a new, clear voice in Appalachian nonfiction, free of cant, free of even the rumor of a stereotype. Sarah Beth Childers’s family saga engages the griefs of the region in many ways—times have been difficult in her native West Virginia—but a thread of joyfulness, like light, winds through these essays, as stories accumulated by generations at last find voice in Childers’s telling. It is a pleasure, rare and true, to sit with this book and listen.”“The West Virginia childhood that Sarah Beth Childers gives us in Shake Terribly the Earth is hardscrabble, pietistic, and loving. Disability checks, pizza, and Mountain Dew along with the Holy Spirit inflect this clear-eyed and moving portrait of a young woman’s coming of age in one deep corner of the American Landscape.”“This is a book to rattle us awake and stir in our blood forgotten memories of family and faith, of fire and flood. Shake Terribly the Earth introduces us to a young writer mightily engaged with the world before her. There is wisdom in these pages. Music bellows from the words.”“Wonderfully rich and beautifully written … the collection is also self-aware and articulate about storytelling as an art and as a profoundly human means of creating meaning. Storytelling is furthermore a powerful folkway in Appalachian life, and one of the main themes of the book.… It is a deeply worthwhile and fascinating collection.“
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Ohio University Press Shake Terribly the Earth
Book SynopsisIn a thoughtful, humorous voice born of Appalachian storytelling, Childers brings to life family tales that affected the entire region to make sense of her personal journey and find the joy and clarity that often emerge after the earth shakes terribly beneath us.Trade Review“Beautifully written, nostalgic, and indeed unique, this work will be welcomed by those who enjoy memoir or American regional history and by anyone interested in Appalachian culture.” * Library Journal *“A clear hallmark of memoir is allowing the reader to experience the author's moments of realization with her as it happens, but it requires a brave writer to share something so raw and unfiltered, and Childers does so without pause.” * Appalachian Heritage *“[Childers] weaves together complex characters, a culture shaped by faith and music, and vibrantly imagined settings to both capture and complicate an often misunderstood facet of Appalachian culture—fundamental Christianity.” * West Virginia Living *“Childers’s collection of carefully arranged family vignettes reveals a master storyteller sharing the tales of her yarn-spinning clan over the generations.” * “Around Cincinnati,” WVXU-NPR *“Nearly all of us have our own full share of childhood memories. But few of us are willing—or able—to dig as deep into our store of memories as does Sarah Beth Childers in her impressive new memoir, Shake Terribly the Earth.” * Charleston Gazette *“A tightly connected collection of essays….” * ForeWord Reviews *“Shake Terribly the Earth announces a new, clear voice in Appalachian nonfiction, free of cant, free of even the rumor of a stereotype. Sarah Beth Childers’s family saga engages the griefs of the region in many ways—times have been difficult in her native West Virginia—but a thread of joyfulness, like light, winds through these essays, as stories accumulated by generations at last find voice in Childers’s telling. It is a pleasure, rare and true, to sit with this book and listen.”“The West Virginia childhood that Sarah Beth Childers gives us in Shake Terribly the Earth is hardscrabble, pietistic, and loving. Disability checks, pizza, and Mountain Dew along with the Holy Spirit inflect this clear-eyed and moving portrait of a young woman’s coming of age in one deep corner of the American Landscape.”“This is a book to rattle us awake and stir in our blood forgotten memories of family and faith, of fire and flood. Shake Terribly the Earth introduces us to a young writer mightily engaged with the world before her. There is wisdom in these pages. Music bellows from the words.”“Wonderfully rich and beautifully written … the collection is also self-aware and articulate about storytelling as an art and as a profoundly human means of creating meaning. Storytelling is furthermore a powerful folkway in Appalachian life, and one of the main themes of the book.… It is a deeply worthwhile and fascinating collection.“
£18.89
Ohio University Press Every River on Earth Writing from Appalachian
Book SynopsisEvery River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from forty contemporary authors such as David Baker, Don Bogen, Michelle Burke, Richard Hague, Donald Ray Pollock, and others.Trade Review“Everything I wrote fell flat and lifeless on the page until I finally began to set my fiction in southern Ohio. As I kept writing about it, I began to see the place in a new light, which is, I think, one of the chief things that art is supposed to do.”“Throughout [Carpathios’] poems and stories almost as much attention is paid to our land as to plot and character, from sycamore trees and foothills to the exploded hillsides lining our highways…They are intertwined and interdependent and, as this is writing from the Appalachian foothills, it simply could not be any other way.” * Middle West Review *“I read many compilations by and about Appalachians, but seldom have I read a collection so rooted in place as Every River on Earth. Edited skillfully by Neil Carpathios…this intriguing collection is divided into four parts that speak to the Appalachian experience as defined by southern Ohio.” * WVXU Cincinnati *
£45.00
Ohio University Press Every River on Earth Writing from Appalachian
Book SynopsisEvery River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from forty contemporary authors such as David Baker, Don Bogen, Michelle Burke, Richard Hague, Donald Ray Pollock, and others.Trade Review“Everything I wrote fell flat and lifeless on the page until I finally began to set my fiction in southern Ohio. As I kept writing about it, I began to see the place in a new light, which is, I think, one of the chief things that art is supposed to do.”“Throughout [Carpathios’] poems and stories almost as much attention is paid to our land as to plot and character, from sycamore trees and foothills to the exploded hillsides lining our highways…They are intertwined and interdependent and, as this is writing from the Appalachian foothills, it simply could not be any other way.” * Middle West Review *“I read many compilations by and about Appalachians, but seldom have I read a collection so rooted in place as Every River on Earth. Edited skillfully by Neil Carpathios…this intriguing collection is divided into four parts that speak to the Appalachian experience as defined by southern Ohio.” * WVXU Cincinnati *
£18.89
Ohio University Press The Food We Eat the Stories We Tell
Book SynopsisBlue ridge tacos, kimchi with soup beans and cornbread, family stories hiding in cookbook marginalia, African American mountain gardens—this wide-ranging anthology considers all these and more. Diverse contributors show us that contemporary Appalachian tables offer new ways into understanding past, present, and future American food practices.Trade Review“Nothing else besides food nourishes us as profoundly as stories. Here we have a celebration of both, presented in an original, beautiful, and delicious manner. This book fairly bursts with a bounty of words—and wonderful illustrations—that manage to articulate just why food is so important in the way it connects and sustains us. I didn’t realize how much Appalachian Literature needed a book like this until I sat down and devoured the whole thing.““Appalachian food is more than beans and corn bread, and this anthology explores its depth…. There are several takes on the food of immigrants, from Korea, Mexico, Spain, and Switzerland…. In all, (The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell) contains a diversity of voices, styles, and cuisines that will be a pleasant surprise to those unfamiliar with the region.” * Booklist *"Foodways have become such a fad, that it is tempting to respond to a new book on the subject with a ho-hum. NO! Not this book. It builds on the foundation that previous books have provided. It expands upon their reach. (The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell) features writers who are more diverse and well-versed, scholars who are more accomplished, story-tellers who are more proficient, and poets who are more gifted.” * Appalachian Mountain Books *“Everything we have been handed down, from cookbook to rosette wand, everything we receive, from egg roll to taco, everything we jones for, from red hot hotdogs to candies, becomes a piece of our history, a thread in the story leading to more story. Sitting at the Appalachian table we can taste the proof of a strong, lasting, surprisingly diverse, and infinitely textured history.”“Engelhardt and Smith bring together a diverse group of writers who deftly use foodways to tackle a number of important themes, from identity and power to placemaking and the meaning of ‘Appalachia.’ Working against lingering but misleading and politicized regional signifiers, this riveting and readable book offers a fresh perspective on Appalachia, using foodways as a lens.”“In The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell, Engelhardt and Smith offer an important and informed antidote to Hillbilly Elegy. The contributors handily debunk commonly held narratives and stereotypes, offering a well-rounded, balanced, and insightful look into Appalachia’s peoples and their foodways.”“This book is a creative and challenging anthology about food and Appalachia. I don’t know anything else like it. It both pokes fun at nostalgia but also absorbs it. It doesn’t bow to so-called foodies but is most definitely focused on the power of food to mediate memory, place, social stratification, pleasure, and resistance.”“This is how I want to understand a place, and particularly a place so resistant to definition (and pronunciation) as the diverse and complex region studied here. Pick the most interesting, compelling, and irreverent voices of the region’s best contemporary writers and thinkers, and say, ‘Food. Here. NOW. Tell us of your Appalachia—its flavor, joys and sorrows, inequalities, dialects, the shape of IT, heritage, work, soil, movement, and always, always, change.’ And, there you have it: a tremendously dynamic collection representing food studies as the engaging and enlightening scholarship it can be.”
£48.60
Ohio University Press The Food We Eat the Stories We Tell Contemporary
Book SynopsisBlue ridge tacos, kimchi with soup beans and cornbread, family stories hiding in cookbook marginalia, African American mountain gardens—this wide-ranging anthology considers all these and more. Diverse contributors show us that contemporary Appalachian tables offer new ways into understanding past, present, and future American food practices.Trade Review“Nothing else besides food nourishes us as profoundly as stories. Here we have a celebration of both, presented in an original, beautiful, and delicious manner. This book fairly bursts with a bounty of words—and wonderful illustrations—that manage to articulate just why food is so important in the way it connects and sustains us. I didn’t realize how much Appalachian Literature needed a book like this until I sat down and devoured the whole thing.““Appalachian food is more than beans and corn bread, and this anthology explores its depth…. There are several takes on the food of immigrants, from Korea, Mexico, Spain, and Switzerland…. In all, (The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell) contains a diversity of voices, styles, and cuisines that will be a pleasant surprise to those unfamiliar with the region.” * Booklist *"Foodways have become such a fad, that it is tempting to respond to a new book on the subject with a ho-hum. NO! Not this book. It builds on the foundation that previous books have provided. It expands upon their reach. (The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell) features writers who are more diverse and well-versed, scholars who are more accomplished, story-tellers who are more proficient, and poets who are more gifted.” * Appalachian Mountain Books *“Everything we have been handed down, from cookbook to rosette wand, everything we receive, from egg roll to taco, everything we jones for, from red hot hotdogs to candies, becomes a piece of our history, a thread in the story leading to more story. Sitting at the Appalachian table we can taste the proof of a strong, lasting, surprisingly diverse, and infinitely textured history.”“Engelhardt and Smith bring together a diverse group of writers who deftly use foodways to tackle a number of important themes, from identity and power to placemaking and the meaning of ‘Appalachia.’ Working against lingering but misleading and politicized regional signifiers, this riveting and readable book offers a fresh perspective on Appalachia, using foodways as a lens.”“In The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell, Engelhardt and Smith offer an important and informed antidote to Hillbilly Elegy. The contributors handily debunk commonly held narratives and stereotypes, offering a well-rounded, balanced, and insightful look into Appalachia’s peoples and their foodways.”“This book is a creative and challenging anthology about food and Appalachia. I don’t know anything else like it. It both pokes fun at nostalgia but also absorbs it. It doesn’t bow to so-called foodies but is most definitely focused on the power of food to mediate memory, place, social stratification, pleasure, and resistance.”“This is how I want to understand a place, and particularly a place so resistant to definition (and pronunciation) as the diverse and complex region studied here. Pick the most interesting, compelling, and irreverent voices of the region’s best contemporary writers and thinkers, and say, ‘Food. Here. NOW. Tell us of your Appalachia—its flavor, joys and sorrows, inequalities, dialects, the shape of IT, heritage, work, soil, movement, and always, always, change.’ And, there you have it: a tremendously dynamic collection representing food studies as the engaging and enlightening scholarship it can be.”
£17.99
University of Pittsburgh Press Cuban Studies 53
Book SynopsisCuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. In publication since 1970, and under Alejandro de la Fuente’s editorial leadership since 2013, this interdisciplinary journal covers all aspects of Cuban history, politics, culture, diaspora, and more.
£65.55
Fordham University Press Murder Inc. and the Moral Life Gangsters and
Book SynopsisMurder, Inc. and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia’s New York tells the story of the notorious 1930s Brooklyn gang nicknamed “Murder, Inc.” Murder, Inc. is as well an extended moral reflection on the phenomenon of gangsters in general and the Murder, Inc. gang in particular.Trade Review"Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York is a keen account of organized crime during the first half of the twentieth century. Most significant is the book's integral, cogent analysis of the unfortunate marriage of criminality, in all of its diversity, and the general population's fascination with it. A must-read for anyone interested in the complex story of gangsterism in the United States!" -- -Anthony Julian Tamburri Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute "In Murder, Inc. and the Moral Life, Robert Weldon Whalen connects the real gangsters to the 'reel' gangsters and the forces that shaped and fought them. He explores our fascination with the gangster figure through the moral and ethical questions that helped to shape American culture for the past one hundred years. With sound research, good clear writing, and a critical sense of history, Whalen adds new dimensions to the study of this truly unique American archetype of crime and masculinity." -- -Fred Gardaphe Distinguished Professor of English and Italian American Studies, Queens College/CUNY and author of From Wiseguys to Wise MenTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii List of Illustrations ix List of Characters xi Prologue: Naked City 1 1 Reel Gangsters—Mobsters and the Movies 13 2 Real Gangsters: Abe Reles and the Origins of Murder, Inc. 31 3 Gangster City 54 4 Fiorello La Guardia and the Cinema of Redemption 75 5 Gangbuster: Thomas Dewey and Imperfect Justice 97 6 Murder, Inc.: “I Got Used to It” 126 7 A Theater of Ethics: Mr. Arsenic and the Murder, Inc., Trials 157 8 Ethics of Ambiguity: The Canary Could Sing but Couldn’t Fly 185 Epilogue: “That Dangerous and Sad City of the Imagination” 209 Acknowledgments 217 Notes 219 Bibliography 253 Index 259
£57.60
Fordham University Press Brooklyn Bridge Park
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed is a remarkable telling of an important story. It's a provocative narrative of tenacity, community activism, politics, perseverance, contentious decision making, and strategic solutions. For anyone interested in urban planning, this book is a must-read. Ultimately, Witty and Krogius remind us that the public triumph of a beautiful park is well worth a good fight!" -- -Deborah Schwartz president of the Brooklyn Historical Society "As a former parks commissioner, it is amazing to me that a spectacular new waterfront park built at great public expense could be as controversial as Brooklyn Bridge Park. This excellent book details how complicated and difficult it was to conceive, design, finance, and build the park and chronicles the dedication and ingenuity of the many who made it happen." -- -Betsy Gotbaum former commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and New York City Public Advocate (2002-2009) "Only in Brooklyn! A tired waterfront becomes a great park and welcomes the world to New York's hippest borough. This fine book tells the inside story of how it happened, of how government works in the real world, of how citizen-actors and political pros produced an urban masterpiece." -- -Marty Markowitz former Brooklyn Borough president and twenty-three-year member of the New York State Senate "Brooklyn Bridge Park recounts the long-running saga of high-stakes competition over the fate of a spectacular piece of waterfront real estate. This fascinating account describes all the challenges and reveals the fascinating combination of politics and process, 'pluck and luck,' behind the result. The 'Grand Bargain' that made the park possible is a grand story." -- -Ellen Schall Senior Presidential Fellow at New York University and Martin Cherkasky Professor of Health Policy and Management at NYU Wagner "More than a simple history of the park, this book digs beneath the surface to explore why and how this environmental masterpiece came to be." -Brooklyn Daily EagleTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Stage 2. All Hell Breaks Lose a. Sidebar: Early Park Seed 3. The Manheim Years 4. A New Game: Origins of the Local Development Corporation 5. Strange Bedfellows 6. Recruiting the Team 7. Public Planning 8. Public Planning Continues 9. Money and Political Gamesmanship a. Sidebar: "Pier 4" 10. Breaking the Logjam 11. From Theoretical to Concrete 12. Housing "In the Park" 13. At Long Last, Shovels 14. Politics and Housing 15. The Park Begins to Materialize 16. Deep Differences Over a Nineteenth Century Relic 17. An Ill Wind Blows Good and Bad 18. The Growing Experience 19. Learning from the Site 20. Housing and Politics, Continued 21. Parks, Parks, Parks 22. Reflections on Brooklyn Bridge Park
£65.70
Fordham University Press The Global South Atlantic
Book SynopsisCountering a Northern focus in much Atlantic World scholarship, this volume brings together new scholarship in comparative literary studies, cultural studies and history which explores the South Atlantic as a region, or the way the Atlantic more widely has been viewed from the Global South.Trade Review"The Global South Atlantic is a critically important contribution to current debates and discussions toward remapping the cultural and political geographies of global literary and media production. Specifically, one could mention the changed and changing valences of terms like 'Third World,' the waning disciplinary and curricular influence of 'postcolonial,' and the disputations around questions of globalization, the undecidabilty of the parameters of the 'global South' and the continuing impact of Paul Gilroy's idea of the 'black Atlantic.' ... The argument that underwrites the project of the 'global South Atlantic' is at once incisive in its recapitulation of recent intellectual history and even prescient in its anticipation of new directions in area/cultural/regional/international studies across myriad disciplines of the humanities and social sciences." -- -Barbara Harlow University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction “The Sea of International Politics”: Fluidity, Solvency, and Drift in the Global South Atlantic Joseph R. Slaughter and Kerry Bystrom Part I: South Atlantic Imperial Geographies Chapter One The African Slave Trade and the Construction of the Iberian Atlantic Luiz Felipe de Alencastro Chapter Two A World Girded: San Simonian Space and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Latin Transatlantic Jaime Hanneken Chapter Three Scheherazade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature Jason Frydman Chapter Four Southern By Degrees: Islands and Empires in the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Sub-Antarctic World Isabel Hofmeyr Part II: South Atlantic Cold War Modernities Chapter Five Beyond the Color Curtain: The Metonymic Color Politics of the Tricontinental and the (New) Global South Anne-Garland Mahler Chapter Six South Africa, Chile and the Cold War: Reading the South Atlantic in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples Kerry Bystrom Chapter Seven Islands in Distress: Making Sense of the Malvinas/Falklands War Oscar Hemer Chapter Eight Orientalism and the Narration of Violence in the Mediterranean Atlantic: Gabriel García Marques and Elias Khoury Christina E. Civantos Chapter Nine Marvelous Autocrats: Disrupted Realisms in the Dictator-Novel of the South Atlantic Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Part III: Global South Atlantic Futures Chapter Ten Postwar Politics in O Heroi and Kangamba Lanie Millar Chapter Eleven Adrift between Neo-liberalism and the Revolution: Cape Verde and the South Atlantic in Germano Almeida’s Eva Luís Madureira Chapter Twelve A Sweet Sweet Tale of Terror: Rita Indiana Hernandez Writes the Dominican Republic into the Global South Atlantic Maja Horn Chapter Thirteen Carioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian Telenovela Waïl Hassan Bibliography Author’s Bios
£27.90
University of Hawai'i Press Pacific Diaspora Island Peoples in the United
Book SynopsisPacific Islander Americans constitute one of the United States' least understood ethnic groups and are given many stereotypes. This work brings together the individual and community histories of Pacific Islands peoples in the US.
£24.61
University of Hawai'i Press Kamehameha
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Economics of East Asian Integration
Book SynopsisCovering a wide range of aspects surrounding economic integration in East Asia, this well-researched text will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of development studies, regional economics and Asian studies. It will be of particular value to those on courses concerned with economic and regional integration.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai PART I: FACTS AND THEORIES 1. A History of De Facto Economic Integration in East Asia Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai 2. Analytical Framework for East Asian Integration (1): Industrial Agglomeration and Concentrated Dispersion Koji Nishikimi and Ikuo Kuroiwa 3. Analytical Framework for East Asian Integration (2): Evolution of Industrial Location and Regional Disparity Koji Nishikimi and Ikuo Kuroiwa PART II: INTEGRATION (1): PRODUCTION NETWORKS AND INNOVATION 4. International Production/Distribution Networks in East Asia Mitsuyo Ando 5. Theories on FDI and the Behavior of MNEs in East Asia Ho Yeon Kim and Toshitaka Gokan 6. Productivity, R&D, and Intellectual Property Rights in East Asia and India Kensuke Kubo PART III: INTEGRAION (2): AGRICULTURE, SERVICES, LABOR, AND MONEY 7. Agricultural Issues Related to East Asia’s Economic Integration Masayoshi Honma 8. Services Trade and Investment Liberalization Christopher Findlay 9. Economic Integration and International Migration in East Asia Tomohiro Machikita 10. Monetary Integration in East Asia Eiji Ogawa and Kentaro Kawasaki PART IV: DRIVERS OF INTEGRATION 11. Institutional Building for Economic Integration in East Asia: A Brief History Jiro Okamoto 12. Institutions and Policy Coordination for Further Integration Daisuke Hiratsuka 13. Economic Integration and the Expansion of Trade and Transport Networks Ikumo Isono 14. Infrastructure Connectivity for East Asia’s Economic Integration Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay PART V: COHESION AND SUSTAINABILITY 15. Economic Integration and Regional Disparities in East Asia Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Wei Zhao 16. Economic Integration and Poverty Hosaki Kono 17. Energy Bottlenecks and Cooperation Nobuhiro Horii 18. Trade and the Environment Michikazu Kojima and Etsuyo Michida 19. New Challenges and Directions for East Asian Integration Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai Index
£158.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth
Book SynopsisToday, economic growth is widely understood to be conditioned by productivity increases which are, in turn, profoundly affected by innovation. This volume explores these key relationships between innovation and growth, bringing together experts from both fields to compile a unique Handbook.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to the Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth Philip Cooke, Bjørn Asheim, Ron Boschma, Ron Martin, Dafna Schwartz and Franz Tödtling PART I: REGIONAL INNOVATION THEORY Introduction Bjørn Asheim and Dafna Schwartz 2. Schumpeter and Regional Innovation Esben Sloth Andersen 3. Neo-Schumpeterian Perspectives on Innovation and Growth David Wolfe 4. Regional Agglomeration and Growth: The Classical Approach Eirik Vatne 5. Innovation, Product Life Cycle and Diffusion: Vernon and Beyond Gunther Tichy 6. Perspectives on Mature Marshallian Industrial Districts Marco Bellandi 7. The New Marshallian Districts and their Process of Internationalization Fiorenza Belussi PART II: REGIONAL INNOVATION AND GROWTH DYNAMICS Introduction Philip Cooke, Franz Tödtling and Dafna Schwartz 8. Innovation and Productivity: Local Competitiveness and the Role of Space Roberta Capello 9. Human Capital and Labour Mobility Determinants of Regional Innovation Daniel Felsenstein 10. The Geography of Knowledge Flows Stefano Breschi 11. Regional Innovation and Diversity Simona Iammarino 12. Networks of Innovation Elisa Giuliani 13. From Regional Anchors to Anchoring Lisa De Propris and Olivier Crevoisier PART III: REGIONAL INNOVATION AND EVOLUTION Introduction Ron Boschma and Ron Martin 14. Technological Relatedness, Related Variety and Economic Geography Ron Boschma and Koen Frenken 15. Regional Economies as Path-Dependent Systems: Some Issues and Implications Ron Martin 16. Absorptive Capacity in a Regional Context Maria Abreu 17. Regional Knowledge Networks Michael Steiner 18. Regional Competitiveness: From Endowments to Externalities to Evolution Ron Martin 19. Regional Cultural Economy: Evolution and Innovation Al James PART IV: AGGLOMERATION AND INNOVATION Introduction Philip Cooke and Bjørn Asheim 20. Proximity and Innovation Christophe Carrincazeaux and Marie Coris 21. The Changing Form and Geography of Social Capital Stuart Rosenfeld 22. Cluster Evolution Arne Isaksen 23. Transversality and Regional Innovation Platforms Philip Cooke 24. Technology Clusters Edward Malecki PART V: REGIONAL WORLDS OF INNOVATION Introduction Philip Cooke and Dafna Schwartz 25. Worlds of Production: Conventions and the Microfoundations of Regional Economies Peter Sunley 26. Culture as a Source for Growth and Change: Some Evidences from Cultural Clusters in Andalusia Luciana Lazzeretti 27. Service Innovation Yuko Aoyama and Rory Horner 28. Regional Services Innovation Philip Cooke 29. Open Innovation and Regional Growth Peter Prud’homme van Reine 30. Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Innovation Philip Cooke and Dafna Schwartz 31. Innovation Systems in Emerging Economies: The Case of India Scott Ptak and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen 32. Green Innovation Philip Cooke PART VI: REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM INSTITUTIONS Introduction Dafna Schwartz and Franz Tödtling 33. Regional Innovation Systems Franz Tödtling and Michaela Trippl 34. Intermediaries in Regional Innovation Systems: Role and Challenges for Policy Claire Nauwelaers 35. Regional Entrepreneurship Niels Bosma, Veronique Schutjens and Erik Stam 36. Venture Capital in Regional Innovation and Growth Jesper Lindgaard Christensen 37. Regional Entrepreneurship Development: Promoting Spin-offs through Coaching and Mentoring Magnus Klofsten and Staffan Öberg 38. Regional Innovation and Incubation: The Technological Incubators Programme for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Daniel Shefer and Amnon Frenkel PART VII: REGIONAL INNOVATION POLICY Introduction Philip Cooke and Ron Boschma 39. Regional Innovation Governance Martin Heidenreich and Knut Koschatzky 40. Learning Regions James Simmie 41. Regional Innovation Platforms Vesa Harmaakorpi, Tomi Tura and Helinä Melkas 42. Regional Innovation Policy and Dramaturgy Philip Cooke 43. Design-Driven Regional Innovation Philip Cooke and Arne Eriksson 44. Regional Innovation Policy between Theory and Practice Arnoud Lagendijk Index
£51.25
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in
Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides an overview and assessment of the state-of-the-art research methods, approaches and applications central to economic geography.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I: GENERAL METHODS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND REGIONAL SCIENCE 1. Spatial Econometrics James Lesage 2. Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Analysis Johannes Bröcker 3. Factor Prices and Geographical Economics Steven Brakman and Charles van Marrewijk 4. Shift-Share and Its New Extension Kingsley E. Haynes and Jitendra Parajuli 5. Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems Paul A. Longley 6. Analysis of Spatial Concentration and Dispersion Giuseppe Arbia, Giuseppe Espa and Diego Giuliani 7. Simultaneous-equations Analysis in Regional Science and Economic Geography Timo Mitze and Andreas Stephan 8. Neural Networks: A Class of Flexible Non-linear Models for Regression and Classification Manfred M. Fischer 9. Social Accounting Analysis Demetrios Psaltopoulos and Dimitris Skuras PART II: METHODS AND APPROACHES OF REGIONAL ANALYSIS 10. Local Multiplier and Economic Base Analysis Per Thulin 11. Analysis of Regional Endogenous Growth Roberto Basile and Stefano Usai 12. Unity in Variety? Agglomeration Economics Beyond the Specialisation-Diversity Controversy Frank van Oort 13. Methods and Applications of Regional Innovation Systems Analysis Bjørn Asheim, Lars Coenen and Jerker Moodysson 14. Geographic Clustering in Evolutionary Economic Geography Koen Frenken and Ron Boschma 15. Methods of Analyzing the Relationship Between New Business Formation and Regional Development Michael Fritsch 16. Analysis of Local Social Capital Hans Westlund and Yuheng Li 17. Regional Social Network Analysis Maureen Kilkenny PART III: METHODS AND APPROACHES OF INTERREGIONAL ANALYSIS 18. Interregional Input-output Modeling: Spillover Effects, Feedback Loops and Intra-industry Trade Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and Jan Oosterhaven 19. Empirical Studies in Geographical Economics Han-Hsin Chang, Charles Van Marrewijk and Marc Schramm 20. Accessibility and Market Potential Analysis Johan Klaesson, Johan P. Larsson and Therese Norman 21. The Impact of Private, Public and Human Capital on the US States Economies: Theory, Extensions and Evidence Sandy Dall'erba and Irving Llamosas-Rosas 22. Interregional Migration Analysis Alessandra Faggian, Jonathan Corcoran and Mark Partridge 23. Applied Spatial Interaction Modelling in Economic Geography: An Example of the Use of Models for Public Sector Planning Mark Birkin, Hamzah Khawaldah, Martin Clarke and Graham Clarke PART IV: SPECIFIC ISSUES IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND REGIONAL SCIENCE 24. Regional Knowledge Production Function Analysis Attila Varga and Márton Horváth 25. Qualitative Methods in Regional Program Evaluation – an examination of the story-based approach Frank Vanclay 26. Using Social and Economic Impact Assessment to Guide Local Supplier Development Initiatives Ana Maria Esteves and Galina Ivanova 27. Analysing the Geography of High-impact Entrepreneurship Sierdjan Koster and Nikos Kapitsinis 28. Gender-specific Dynamics in Hours Worked: Exploring the Potential for Increasing Hours Worked in an Ageing Society Inge Noback, Lourens Broersma and Jouke van Dijk Index
£212.00
