The Moderate Majority examines the Republican electorate and challenges the conventional narrative that today’s Republic......more
The Moderate Majority examines the Republican electorate and challenges the conventional narrative that today’s Republic......more
Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right analyzes the violent enforcement......more
When EU member states signed the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, they did not anticipate the manifold crises in store for them......more
Democratic institution-building experiences, innovative forms of social organization, and the development of multiple st......more
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First published in 1981 and now with a new preface by the renowned scholar Jeffrey Weeks, The Theory and Practice of Hom......more
First published in 1992, The Inward Gaze looks at men’s fantasies and self-images from a wide range of texts (notably bo......more
Feminism has put the critical study of men and masculinities firmly on to the academic agenda. First published in 1992, ......more
Originally published in 1982, From Author to Reader, the first of its kind, is a complete review of books in modern soci......more
Although the role of the teacher has been extensively explored, the role of the pupil has received very little attention......more
Britons all getting poorer. What does that look like for British children, and their life chances? If we found seven typ......more
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Graduates (1972) examines the careers of UK graduates for six years following their successful completion of their degre......more
How do people actually experience God, Jesus Christ, the Kingdom and the Church? Does this experience affect their aware......more
In the book Sex Education (first published in 1989), Philip Meredith focuses upon the British situation to investigate t......more
Britons Abroad (1968) takes the lid off nine 1960s package tours, mainly in Europe, revealing the kind of people taking ......more
Originally published in 1976 under the title Modernization, Exploitation and Dependency in Latin America, and again in 1......more
This book complements the sparse findings on education, labour market outcomes, and wellbeing relating to immigrant offs......more
Employing the intellectual migration analytical framework, this book examines the dynamics of student and professional m......more
First published in 1983, The Feral Classroom argues that the experience of schooling needs to be understood in terms of ......more
Jane Eyre is a feminist Pilgrim’s Progress in which the heroine asserts the moral equality and responsibility of men and......more
First published in 1988, Crossing Boundaries challenges existing disciplines and fields of study from a feminist perspec......more
In the 1950s, America was in the grip of Cold War paranoia and McCarthyism. Communism and ’gender maladjustment’ were tw......more
First published in 1978, Israel focuses on the pluralistic structure of Israel and its internal conflicts. The author di......more
Although the importance of domestic servants in eighteenth-century England has long been recognized, The Domestic Servan......more
First published in 1988, Crossing Boundaries challenges existing disciplines and fields of study from a feminist perspec......more
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Drawing upon comprehensive research across five countries, including case studies of housing, water, and health, compreh......more
This book examines the social and cultural history of Bengal through two major themes -- the intellectual and cultural d......more
To advance the debates around temporary migration in the Pacific, a governmentality framework contributes to understandi......more
To advance the debates around temporary migration in the Pacific, a governmentality framework contributes to understandi......more
A history of the indigenous peoples of the Dominica. What happened to the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean in the wak......more
The increasing importance of local-level planning in developing countries and disillusionment with highly theoretical, s......more
Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations argues that marxism must have a robust und......more
This book presents case studies concerning the impact of development projects on societies at various levels of affluenc......more
The participation of the public sector in assessing the social impact of a wide range of projects is the focus of this g......more
This book examines and explains changes in Chinese health care policy during the 1949-1977 period. It is concerned with ......more
This book explores elite perceptions of the external threats facing the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Na......more
Kevin Lane discusses the tension existed between China’s traditional claim to sovereignty over Hong Kong. He believes th......more
An array of case studies exploring evolving tax policy and economic development in Pacific Asian countries....more
This study provides a systematic analysis of the changing character of state-society relations during Algeria’s critical......more
This book is the outcome of a Development Studies Association Workshop on Technology that we convened in Queen Elizabeth......more
This book grew out of research funded by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry. This study will argue that the di......more
The Jewish community of Egypt in modem times-now practically non-existent-consisted in part of autochthonous Jews who tr......more
This annual reference provides a statistical study of military trends in the Middle East and a collection of essays anal......more
The sixth edition of this annual furnishes statistics on the population, resources, infrastructure, armed forces and mil......more
Now in its seventh year, this annual review provides a detailed database on military forces and strategic developments i......more
Capital is often depicted as an all-encompassing and abstract social force which seeks to "subsume" all of human life. B......more
Due to significant processes of transnationalization in the European context, a considerable relevance of potential soci......more
The Signifying Self is a study in people watching. It uses semiotics, psychoanalytic theory and sociological perspective......more
This book is the second publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, prese......more
Criminalization: Politics and Policies provides a thorough analysis of the relationship between politics, policies, and ......more
With an introduction by Gregor Benton. The Longest Night tells the story of Chinese Trotskyism in its later years, inclu......more
This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of soc......more
This book shows how primitive games relate to the broader framework of the theory of games and provides a general discus......more
Reflecting recent re-examinations of the nature and purpose of the modern publicly held corporation, Progressive Corpora......more
This volume analyzes in considerable depth how fears, prejudices, social and moral values, and individual perceptions ha......more
Production of world food supplies is related to more complicated socioeconomic variables than have previously been analy......more
Although donor agencies have been concerned about the viability of individual projects in developing countries, less att......more
While many developing countries rapidly expanded their scientific and technological capabilities during the 1960s and 19......more
This book examines the process of rural community development and transition--exploring the ways in which history, cultu......more
This book presents several general theoretical notions about the process of science and technology as it relates to deve......more
This book analyses the use of rural road networks and the causes and effects of road programmes in the areas of personal......more
This book considers Chinese foreign policy and China’s future role in world affairs in the context of the country’s rece......more
This book assesses the sources and nature of growth, structural change, and industrialization in Thailand, Malaysia, and......more
Although the Congress Party has dominated Indian national politics in recent years, a more uncertain picture has emerged......more
Covert agreements and operations are a fact of world affairs. Secrecy in diplomacy remains as much a challenge for inter......more
This pathbreaking study provides the first comprehensive comparative analysis of states and markets in Japan and Russia/......more
This book focuses on the relationship between international migrants and host societies and discusses the historical uni......more
This book is an empirical study of various rural development projects in some African countries such as The Gambia, Ghan......more
Originally published in 1987. The Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University, has been carrying out over the p......more
Using reviews of special reports and personal interviews with team members of recent National Science Foundation-sponsor......more
During the 1970s the Soviet Union allowed large numbers of its citizens to emigrate, the first major group allowed to le......more
This volume focuses on Sun Yat-sen’s social, political, and economic ideas as seen in his major work, The Three Principl......more
Focusing on an agropastoral society of southcentral Somalia, this book explores the seeming incompatibility of subsisten......more
This comprehensive introductory text describes health systems in the United States and in other countries, with emphasis......more
The contributors to this book offer an explanation of Soviet and U.S. policy in the Middle East by exploring how the sup......more
Traditionally, Taiwan has been viewed as the passive pawn of more aggressive powers, yet now it has begun to assert its ......more
In this book, leading authorities on the family show how families, parents, and children have been affected by changing ......more
The "Syrian crisis" of 1957, sparked by a covert attempt by the Eisenhower administration to overthrow what it perceived......more
Complex issues of national security and defense modernization continue to be a major preoccupation of the PRC leadership......more
The Taiwan issue in Sino-American relations remains one of the most complex, controversial, and even dangerous policy di......more
Originally published in 1987. This study evaluates micro- and macroeconomic determinants for the export performance of E......more
The crisis of the "project of modernity" (Habermas) is, at the same time, a crisis of critical theories of society and c......more
A group of American Foreign Service officers and journalists in China during and after World War II--collectively known ......more
Although the "Han" Chinese constitute about 95 percent of the population of the PRC, they are much more diverse than mos......more
There may be areas of human life in which people have profited from understanding history, but criminal justice is defin......more
This book examines six major ’Debt Connections’; six ways in which the third world ’Debt Boomerang’ strikes the North as......more
The creation of Israel called for the realignment of the West Bank and Gaza Strip economies with those of Jordan and Egy......more
Forty years after becoming an independent state, Israel is still involved in deadly strife with many of its Arab neighbo......more