Regional Geography

This book interrogates the ideology and practices of liberal constitutionalism in the Zambian postcolony. The analysis focuses on the residual poli...

Covering the history of medieval and early modern India, from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, this volume is part of a new series of collec...

This collection adds to a burgeoning literature concerned with the roles played by religions in development. The authors do not assume that religio...

The ideas contained in Karl Poppers The Open Society and Its Enemiesone of the most important tracts in political philosophy in the twentieth centu...

At the end of the founding or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and preside...

This book provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of the link between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia, as well as offe...

This book provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of the link between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia, as well as offe...

This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and et...

Regionalism is a term that has been used to describe many different kinds of phenomena, including political, geographical, architectural, and liter...

This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology, a creative industry, and a vibra...

This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology, a creative industry, and a vibra...

This open access book conducts systematic and comprehensive research on urban spatial development problems in China from territorial perspectives, ...

Based on the scientific theory on human settlements environment, this open access book conducts systematic and comprehensive research on urban spat...

This book scrutinises the realm of safety-security involving nuclear power within the context of Indias tryst with nuclear energy. Relying on open ...

There is an urgent need to increase agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa in a sustainable and economically-viable manner. Transforming r...

This anthology vastly expands our understanding of the much-misconstructed history of early modern Bengal and seeks to redress the misconception th...

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new type...

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new type...

Since the late 1980s, critical geopolitics has gone from being a radical critical perspective on the disciplines of political geography and interna...

The region of the Middle East is beset with a structural crisis of which particular crises confronting the component countries happen to be merely ...

Africa has been and currently is the site of numerous conflicts and crises. Authors previously wrote of these as specifically African problems or t...

This pioneering work traces migration of Indian traders to Russia, Iran, West Asia and South-East Asia in medieval times. Four essays throw light o...

In Search of Stability seeks to understand the economics of money through a narrative on the history of the rupee. The period delineated for study ...

This volume is a festschrift for Damodar Ramaji SarDesai (b. 1931), Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCL...

As social movements have become more complex, geographers are increasingly studying the spatial dynamics of collective resistance and sociologists ...

This volume looks into the ways Indian Ocean routes shaped the culture and contours of early modern India. IT shows how these and other historical ...

It is sometimes said that, in the 21st century, the country that tells the better story wins, rather than the country whose army can prevail on the...

It is sometimes said that, in the 21st century, the country that tells the better story wins, rather than the country whose army can prevail on the...

Post Cold War international relations have undeniably been a litmus test for the bilateral relations between India and Russia. With the emergence o...

Post Cold War international relations have undeniably been a litmus test for the bilateral relations between India and Russia. With the emergence o...

This book is the second in a global trilogy looking at the unreported Sikh diaspora comprising mainly the non-English speaking countries. The first...

The battle of Actium waged in 31 BC and the annexation of Egypt in 30 BC to the Roman Empire opened up avenues for increased commercial contact bet...

Strategic change and transformation are words used very commonly in business parlance but rarely defined. Besides, change and transformations are o...

The world has become obsessed with the Western notions of progress, development, and globalization, the latter a form of human and economic homogen...

Popular uprisings have taken many different forms in the last hundred or so years since Muslims first began to grapple with modernity and to confro...

The term moral has had a chequered history in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due to the legacy of colonialism and Apartheid (in South Africa). In contr...

In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Pa...

In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Pa...

In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Pa...

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far bee...

There has been relatively little written on the history of urban planning in North Africa, despite the wealth of towns and cities in this region wh...

This book examines the socio-economic factors in the rise and development of nationalism in the Tamil-speaking region of the Madras Presidency in I...

The post-Soviet country of Georgia has generated surprise upon surprise. Its Rose Revolution in 2003 marked the first time an existing leadership o...

This much anticipated volume looks at the historical evolution of towns and cities in medieval India from the early thirteenth to the late eighteen...

Green activism played a critical role in the downfall of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s. After the revolutions, e...

Recent upheaval in the global energy system dramatic increases in demand led largely by developing countries, significant decreases in supply as a...

Understanding Pakistan: Emerging Voices from India is the outcome of a national seminar for research scholars on Pakistan organized by the Centre f...

The essays in the volume deal with a broad range factors integral to Indian history in the early modern era. They unfold many facets of the trade, ...