Regional Geography

All recent books on international social work mention Africa only briefly and few engage with the broader field of development studies. This book f...

Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery....

Many authors have alluded to the unique nature of Russias dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity...

This book is devoted to the phenomenon of removal of people declared public enemies from group photographs in Stalins Russia.The book is based on l...

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...

This book is concerned with evaluating the antiquity of the domestication changes in northern Africa, considering the nature of the environments in...

Offering a retrospective view of how the system operated in Communist Czechoslovakia, this book is an important voice in the discussion about the s...

Chad, the fifth largest country in Africa, has experienced great difficulties politically, economically, and socially. During the 1980s and early 1...

This book approaches the study of Africa's international relations with a consciousness not only of past events but also of future prospects. It fo...

This book emphasizes the factors in the spread and control of AIDS that have received less attention in the literature. It suggests that a collabor...

Religion in War and Peace in Africa shows how Religious extremism transcends the realm of belief, analysing current armed conflicts in Africa with ...

This title was first published in 2001. The contributors to this book examine how changing political borders and disappearing obstacles in transpor...

Religio-political organisations in Zimbabwe play an important role in advocating democratisation and reconciliation, against acquiescent, silenced ...

This volume considers the African Diaspora through the underexplored Afro-Latino experience in the Caribbean and South America. Utilizing both esta...

Of the world's refugees, more than a third live in Africa, displaced from their homelands by war, poverty, famine and political persecution. In thi...

This title was first published in 2002.Banking reform lies at the heart of economic reform in China and is central to sustaining the countries high...

This title was first published in 2003. The transition from socialism experienced by the countries of Eastern and Central Europe during the last de...

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental...

First published in 1997, this volume sets out to open a dialogue with the trade union movement and its social partners including civil society, pol...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative...

First published in 1998, this volume represents the outcome of a seminar as part of the continuing efforts of the Convocation of the University of ...

This title was first published in 2000: This timely volume makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the issues faced by developing cou...

This title was first published in 2000. Since the 1970s there has been widespread debate on the potential of information communication technologies...

This title was first published in 2000. Providing an introduction to contemporary regional economic development issues, this book analyzes whether ...

After independence many African countries abjured conventional patterns of political representation and democratic participation in the interest of...