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21 produkter
Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective
Av Eric Thompson, Jamie Gillen m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective provides the first multicountry, inter-disciplinary analysis of the single most important social and economic formation in the Asian countryside: the smallholder. Based on ten core country chapters, the volume describes and explains the persistence, …
China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism
International Order and Global Leadership
Av Benjamin Ho
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism: International Order and Global Leadership' uses the notion of Chinese exceptionalism as a framework to analyze China's international politics and foreign policy. This book argues that China's approach to international relations is best …
Development on Loan
Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese development planners have turned to microcredit -- i.e. the provision of …
Dynamics of Democracy in Timor-Leste
The Birth of a Democratic Nation, 1999-2012
Av Rui Feijo
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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The Indonesian province of Timor-Leste made international news when it decided to break away from Indonesia in 1999. The decision sparked deadly rampages by pro-integrationist militias, violence that only abated when the UN sent a force to maintain peace and help ease the way to actual …
Land, Life, and Emotional Landscapes at the Margins of Bangladesh
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in the north-eastern borderlands of Bangladesh, this book focuses on the everyday struggles of indigenous farmers threatened with losing their land due to such state programmes as the realignment of the national border, ecotourism, social forestry and …
Living Standards in Southeast Asia
Changes over the Long Twentieth Century, 1900-2015
Av Anne Booth
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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Living Standards in Southeast Asia: Changes over the Long Twentieth Century, 1900-2015 examines changes in living standards across the ten countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Brunei, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) from the early years of the …
Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia
Av Lan Anh Hoang, Cheryll Alipio
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia provides original, nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral economies of Asia. Through case studies from South and Southeast Asia, the collection sheds important light on how the new mobilities and wealth created by neoliberal …
Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics
Rhetoric and Restraint in China's Diplomacy
Av Angela Poh
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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The view that China has become increasingly assertive under President Xi Jinping is now a common trope in academic and media discourse. However, until the end of Xi Jinping's first term in March 2018, China had been relatively restrained in its use of coercive economic measures. This is puzzling …
Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644
Local Comparisons and Global Connections
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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Spain, China and Japan in Manila, 1571—1644 offers a new perspective on the connected histories of Spain, China, and Japan as they emerged and developed following Manila's foundation as the capital of the Spanish Philippines in 1571. Examining a wealth of multilingual primary sources, Birgit …
Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence
Transnational Perspectives
Av Zelia Pereira, Rui Graça Feijó
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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From a much neglected Portuguese colony to independence, Timor-Leste travelled a belated, long and troubled journey that included a 24-year Indonesian occupation. A classic process of European decolonization (1974–1975) was followed by a nationalist struggle against “Third World Colonialism” …
Dynamics of Democracy in Timor-Leste
The Birth of a Democratic Nation, 1999-2012
Av Rui Feijo
Inbunden, 2016
2190 kr
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This book details the political history of Timor-Leste, both preceding and following its declaration of independence.
Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644
Local Comparisons and Global Connections
Inbunden, 2015
2818 kr
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This book offers a new perspective on the connected histories of Spain, China, and Japan as they emerged and developed following Manila's foundation as the capital of the Spanish Philippines in 1571.
Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective
Av Eric Thompson, Jamie Gillen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2126 kr
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The book is the first study detailing the character, evolution, functioning and future of the smallholder and smallholdings across nine countries of East and Southeast Asia.
Visual Interrogations of Femininities in the Malay World
Camera, Chimera and Colonisation
Av Maznah Mohamad, Bahar Gürsel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2578 kr
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This book curates and examines colonial-era photographs from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries sourced from photo-archives of former British and Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia, uncovering how femininities in the Malay world are represented through visual imagery and their role in …
Land, Life, and Emotional Landscapes at the Margins of Bangladesh
Inbunden, 2022
2126 kr
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Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in the north-eastern borderlands of Bangladesh, this book focuses on the everyday struggles of indigenous farmers threatened with losing their land due to such state programmes as the realignment of the national border, ecotourism, social forestry and …
Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics
Rhetoric and Restraint in China's Diplomacy
Av Angela Poh
Inbunden, 2020
2126 kr
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This book provides a systematic investigation into the ways in which Chinese decisionmakers approached sanctions both at the United Nations Security Council and unilaterally, and shows how China's longstanding sanctions rhetoric has had a constraining effect on its behaviour.
Development on Loan
Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China
Inbunden, 2019
2126 kr
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Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in rural China, this book examines the formulation, implementation and outcomes of government-run microcredit programmes in China-illuminating the diverse roles that microcredit plays in local processes of socioeconomic development and the livelihoods of local actors.
Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia
Av Lan Anh Hoang, Cheryll Alipio
Inbunden, 2019
2126 kr
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This book provides original, nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral economies of Asia.
China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism
International Order and Global Leadership
Av Benjamin Ho
Inbunden, 2021
2126 kr
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This book argues that China's approach to international relations is best understood in the context of these claims to exceptionalism and China's broader political world view. In doing so, it fosters a more comprehensive understanding of China's actions within the realms of foreign policy and …
Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence
Transnational Perspectives
Av Zelia Pereira, Rui Graça Feijó
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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This collection adopts a transnational approach that highlights the complexity of Timor-Leste's road to independence.
Living Standards in Southeast Asia
Changes over the Long Twentieth Century, 1900-2015
Av Anne Booth
Inbunden, 2019
2190 kr
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This book examines changes in living standards across the ten countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Brunei, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) from the early years of the 20th century to the early 21st century.
