Regional Geography

Originally published in 1722-23, this edition in 1968. An account of the Government of that country, both civil and ecclesiastical; of the Czar's f...

Sexuality in India offers an expression of nationalist anxieties and is a significant marker of modernity through which subjectivities are formed a...

In this book, the difficult problems of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa are examined by the farming systems approach, which aims to improve food ...

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgen...

Peaceful legal and political changing of the guards is taken for granted in developed democracies, but is not evident everywhere. As a relatively n...

This book addresses whether Guinea-Bissau is a nation or a nation in formation; what the political and ideological foundations of the national libe...

This book presents an integrated analysis of the dynamics of the economics of households and farm production in the setting of a polygynous family ...

Uganda, like many African countries in the 1990s, adopted decentralisation as a state reform measure after many years of civil strife and political...

The global financial crisis has provided an important opportunity to revisit debates about post-socialist transition and the relative success of di...

This title was first published in 2000: Although the apartheid regime has now been abolished there is still a great deal of work to be done in orde...

Since the end of civil war in 1970, Nigeria has struggled to build a stronger federal center and to reduce conflicts resulting from uneven developm...

This title was first published in 2002. Examining cluster development policy in Europe and outlining its distinctive features, this innovative text...

This book investigates the performance of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) since its inception, focusing on four areas of central concern to...

In the past two decades, several millions of IT-enabled services jobs have been relocated or offshored from the US and Europe to, in particular, lo...

Although change management and therefore effective adaptation to environmental complexity is considered a uniquely human cultural activity, the ext...

Ali Mardan bey Topchibashov was a prominent politician, who played a crucial role in the history of Azerbaijan. One of the most striking personalit...

The Sustainable Development Goals were launched in 2015 with grand ambitions for ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for...

This handbook presents an extensive new overview of African development past, present and future. It addresses key core themes and topics that are...

Economic and political reforms and globalization in the developing world have led to the emergence of companies that are expanding beyond their nat...

This book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York honoring J...

India is the first country in the world to have an official programme for family planning that commenced in 1952. It has also seen a strong womens ...

This title was first published in 2000. Recent years have seen tremendous economic and political changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors to...

This title was first published in 2003. Covering a diverse range of countries such as Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slov...

Africans are not literally black, yet they are called black. Why? This book explores the genesis and evolution of the description of Africans as bl...