Japans stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians.
A new account of how Haiti under French colonial rule became a violent sugar plantation stateIn the early eighteenth century, France turned to its New World colonies to help rescue the monarchy from the wartime debts of Louis XIV.
Experimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of backend IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation.
Experimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of backend IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation.
On 11 September 2012, over 250 workers of Ali Enterprises, which produced jeans for the German discount retailer KiK, perished in a fire in their Karachi factory.
Bringing together analyses from different fields-law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis-Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism.
Following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Slovak Republic emerged as an independent nation and embarked on a journey of economic transition and reform.
The book emphasizes the key methodologies and their accessible empirical application while focusing on the most crucial problems, models and techniques for research in all areas of economics.
THE BUSINESS OF PHILANTHROPY features diverse insights into the power of strategic philanthropy to inform, inspire and mobilise the next generation of social innovators in their pursuit of positive social and environmental impact.
Following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Slovak Republic emerged as an independent nation and embarked on a journey of economic transition and reform.
The implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs or SDGs) is often discussed in terms of governmental policy or the contributions by global, multinational organisations, but what role does the informal economy have to play in SDG implementation?
What You Need to Know About IT, In One Concise Package Demystifying IT has been hailed as the one book about information technology that leaders of midsized companies should read.