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9 produkter
Peasants Against the State
The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983
Häftad, 1991
335 kr
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Stephen Bunker challenges the image of peasants as passive victims and argues that coffee growers in the Bugisu District of Uganda, because they own land and may choose which crops to produce, maintain an unusual degree of economic and political independence. Focusing on peasant struggles for …
Underdeveloping the Amazon
Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
Häftad, 1990
335 kr
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Underdeveloping the Amazon shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending that traditional models of development based …
Space and Transport in the World-System
Av Stephen G. Bunker, Paul S. Ciccantell m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1101 kr
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Key metaphors in world-system analysis are profoundly spatial, but there have been few attempts to understand how space, location, and topography affect world-system organization and process. To fill this gap, this book examines case studies of the restructuring of space and transport in core, …
Space and Transport in the World-System
Av Stephen G. Bunker, Paul S. Ciccantell
E-bok, 1998
1178 kr
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Key metaphors in world-system analysis are profoundly spatial, but there have been few attempts to understand how space, location, and topography affect world-system organization and process. To fill this gap, this book examines case studies of the restructuring of space and transport in core, …
Snake with Golden Braids
Society, Nature, and Technology in Andean Irrigation
Inbunden, 2006
1140 kr
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The Snake With Golden Braids seeks to understand how local inhabitants of the extraordinarily rugged Andean topography of Huanoquite, Peru came to understand their landscape and then build and maintain a system of irrigation ditches across it. The Huanoquiteno's original solution, a conceptually …
Globalization and the Race for Resources
Av Stephen G. Bunker, Paul S. Ciccantell
Häftad, 2006
406 kr
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Globalization and the Race for Resources explores how five nations-Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, and Japan-achieved trade dominance by devising technologies, social and financial institutions, and markets to enhance their access to raw materials. Through ecological and …
States, Firms and Raw Materials
World Economy and Ecology of Aluminium
Av Stephen G. Bunker, Denis O'Hearn m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
282 kr
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Case studies on aluminum (aluminium) production, blending empirical data with theories of the state, the firm, industrial organisation and industrial development. Historical, sociological, economic and ecological factors affecting the organisational dynamics of aluminum production are considered.
Globalization and the Race for Resources
Av Stephen G. Bunker, Paul S. Ciccantell
Inbunden, 2006
594 kr
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Globalization and the Race for Resources explores how five nations-Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, and Japan-achieved trade dominance by devising technologies, social and financial institutions, and markets to enhance their access to raw materials. Through ecological and …
East Asia and the Global Economy
Japan’s Ascent, with Implications for China’s Future
Av Stephen G. Bunker, Paul S. Ciccantell
Inbunden, 2007
614 kr
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After World War II, Japan reinvented itself as a shipbuilding powerhouse and began its rapid ascent in the global economy. Its expansion strategy integrated raw material procurement, the redesign of global transportation infrastructure, and domestic industrialization. In this authoritative and …
