Regional and Area Studies
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
£40.00 / $40.00
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Poverty, Inequality, and Inclusive Growth in Asia
Measurement, Policy Issues, and Country Studies
Edited by Juzhong Zhuang
'Poverty, Inequality, and Inclusive Growth in Asia' examines why Asia needs inclusive growth, what policy ingredients an inclusive growth strategy entails, and how such a strategy can lead to benefits of growth being more equitably shared.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318453
May 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Poverty, Inequality, and Inclusive Growth in Asia’ examines why Asia needs inclusive growth, what policy ingredients an inclusive growth strategy entails, and how such a strategy can lead to benefits of growth being more equitably shared.
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South Asian Media Cultures
Audiences, Representations, Contexts
Edited by Shakuntala Banaji
'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318422
April 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘South Asian Media Cultures’ examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.
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Rent from the Land
A Political Ecology of Postsocialist Rural Transformation
Johannes Stahl
'Rent from the Land' examines the effects of the massive political and economic changes of postsocialism on rural society and environment in Albania.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318361
April 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Rent from the Land’ examines the effects of the massive political and economic changes of postsocialism on rural society and environment in Albania.
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India and the World Bank
The Politics of Aid and Influence
Jason A. Kirk
'The World Bank needs India more than India needs it.' So goes an emerging consensus on both sides of the relationship between the Bank and its largest borrower. This book analyzes the politics of aid and influence, with a particular focus on sub-national state-level reforms in India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318507
April 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The World Bank needs India more than India needs it.’ So goes an emerging consensus on both sides of the relationship between the Bank and its largest borrower. This book analyzes the politics of aid and influence, with a particular focus on sub-national state-level reforms in India.
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Mad Tales from the Raj
Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58
Waltraud Ernst
This revised and enlarged reprint provides a comprehensive assessment of the British response to mental illness among both colonizers and the colonized during the East India Company's rule in India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318811
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00This revised and enlarged reprint provides a comprehensive assessment of the British response to mental illness among both colonizers and the colonized during the East India Company’s rule in India.
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Creating Irish Tourism
The First Century, 1750-1850
William H. A. Williams
Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, 'Creating Irish Tourism' charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country's emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318446
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, ‘Creating Irish Tourism’ charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country’s emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later.
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Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938
The Birth of Sociological Linguistics
Edited by Craig Brandist, Katya Chown
'Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938' provides ground-breaking research into the relationship between linguistic theory and politics during the first two decades of the USSR.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318408
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938’ provides ground-breaking research into the relationship between linguistic theory and politics during the first two decades of the USSR.
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Bollywood and Globalization
Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora
Edited by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318330
January 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
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India and the Global Financial Crisis
Managing Money and Finance
Y. V. Reddy
‘India and the Global Financial Crisis’ offers a collection of key speeches delivered by Reddy during his tenure as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and provides insights into the challenges facing the management of India's calibrated integration within the global economy.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318019
January 2010
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£99.00 / $99.00‘India and the Global Financial Crisis’ offers a collection of key speeches delivered by Reddy during his tenure as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and provides insights into the challenges facing the management of India’s calibrated integration within the global economy.
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The Retreat of Democracy and Other Itinerant Essays on Globalization, Economics, and India
Kaushik Basu
‘The Retreat of Democracy’ presents an expanded and reworked selection of Basu's best journalistic writings on political and economic themes since the late 1990s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318651
January 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Retreat of Democracy’ presents an expanded and reworked selection of Basu’s best journalistic writings on political and economic themes since the late 1990s.
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Europe – giving shape to an idea
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This fascinating compilation of extracts from proposals for uniting Europe, drawn up over the centuries, shows that the idea of European integration is far older than is often imagined.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318293
December 2009
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£36.95 / $36.95This fascinating compilation of extracts from proposals for uniting Europe, drawn up over the centuries, shows that the idea of European integration is far older than is often imagined.
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Altered Destinations
Self, Society, and Nation in India
Makarand R. Paranjape
‘Altered Destinations’ addresses the complex interrelations of state, nation and identity in India through the medium of culture, and compellingly reframes the debate in the context of the Gandhian concept of swaraj.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843317975
October 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Altered Destinations’ addresses the complex interrelations of state, nation and identity in India through the medium of culture, and compellingly reframes the debate in the context of the Gandhian concept of swaraj.
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Diagnosing the Philippine Economy
Toward Inclusive Growth
Edited by Dante B. Canlas, Muhammad Ehsan Khan, Juzhong Zhuang
‘Diagnosing the Philippine Economy’ describes the conditions that depress economic growth in the Philippine economy and their causes and potential solutions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843317951
August 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Diagnosing the Philippine Economy’ describes the conditions that depress economic growth in the Philippine economy and their causes and potential solutions.
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Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka
The Case of the Tamil Estate Workers
Valli Kanapathipillai
‘Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka’ analyses the context of the agreement between the Sri Lankan and Indian government that led to the loss of citizenship of Indian Tamil estate workers in Sri Lanka.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843317913
August 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka’ analyses the context of the agreement between the Sri Lankan and Indian government that led to the loss of citizenship of Indian Tamil estate workers in Sri Lanka.
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Calcutta Mosaic
Essays and Interviews on the Minority Communities of Calcutta
Edited by Himadri Banerjee, Nilanjana Gupta, Sipra Mukherjee
‘Calcutta Mosiac’ explores the history of the diverse immigrant communities of this great city.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9788190583558
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Calcutta Mosiac’ explores the history of the diverse immigrant communities of this great city.
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Petrified Utopia
Happiness Soviet Style
Edited by Marina Balina, Evgeny Dobrenko
‘Petrified Utopia’ redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843313106
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Petrified Utopia’ redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture.
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Friends and Enemies
The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China
Kerry Brown
foreword by Will Hutton‘Friends and Enemies’ delivers a thorough account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), explaining its origins and evolution, looking at options for its future, and laying bare its inner workings.
Anthem Press
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9781843317814
July 2009
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£24.95 / $24.95‘Friends and Enemies’ delivers a thorough account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), explaining its origins and evolution, looking at options for its future, and laying bare its inner workings.
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Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger
An Anthology
Edited by Geoffrey P. Nash
An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843317920
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
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Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East
A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin"
Vlas Doroshevich
translated by Andrew A. Gentes
introduction by Andrew A. Gentes‘Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich’s “Sakhalin”’ is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich’s 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia’s largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific.
Anthem Press
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9781843313090
July 2009
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£130.00 / $130.00‘Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich’s “Sakhalin”’ is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich’s 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia’s largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific.
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The Changing Identity of Rural India
A Socio-Historic Analysis
Edited by Elisabetta Basile, Ishita Mukhopadhyay
The book explores the pattern of rural development in contemporary India from a multidisciplinary and historical perspective. The general issue raised in the book refers to the assessment of the nature and working of contemporary Indian rural economy.
Anthem Press India
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9781843318231
July 2009
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£99.00 / $99.00The book explores the pattern of rural development in contemporary India from a multidisciplinary and historical perspective. The general issue raised in the book refers to the assessment of the nature and working of contemporary Indian rural economy.
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Indian Democracy
Problems and Prospects
Edited by M Manisha, Sharmila Mitra Deb
‘Indian Democracy’ is an attempt to understand the development of democratic polity in India.
Anthem Press
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9788190757041
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Indian Democracy’ is an attempt to understand the development of democratic polity in India.
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Another Canon
Indian Texts and Traditions in English
Makarand R. Paranjape
Both rigorous and readable, ‘Another Canon’ is an original contribution to the study of Indian English literature.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9788190757003
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00Both rigorous and readable, ‘Another Canon’ is an original contribution to the study of Indian English literature.
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Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India
Edited by Makarand R. Paranjape
foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama‘Science, Spirituality and the Modernisation of India’ explores the lively transaction between science and spirituality in India over the last 150 years. The book addresses the tension between science and spirituality; how some key figures in India explored the relationship between the two in the very process of trying to reform their society; significant areas of research in which both are both deeply implicated; and their relationship with gender and social justice.
Anthem Press India
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9781843317760
April 2009
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£100.00 / $100.00‘Science, Spirituality and the Modernisation of India’ explores the lively transaction between science and spirituality in India over the last 150 years. The book addresses the tension between science and spirituality; how some key figures in India explored the relationship between the two in the very process of trying to reform their society; significant areas of research in which both are both deeply implicated; and their relationship with gender and social justice.
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Nationalizing the Body
The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine
Projit Bihari Mukharji
‘Nationalizing the Body’ examines the different meanings of ‘modern medicine’ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’.
Anthem Press
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9781843313151
February 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Nationalizing the Body’ examines the different meanings of ‘modern medicine’ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’.