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This book explores Bangladesh's shift from a 'bottomless pit' into a 'middle-income' category. Six chapters in the book cover topics on microfinance growth, ready-made garment production, and social...

The military alliance between the United States and Brazil played a critical role in the outcome of World War II, and yet it is largely overlooked in historiography of the war. In this definitive...

The book is a study of the cooperation of Brazil and India on renewable energy. It is based on a research project on the energy sector of both countries. It discusses the agreements in the energy...

This book focusses on the intersubjective character of status in order to understand the degree to which Brazil has been able to achieve an increase in its global status. Buarque compares the...

Sheds new light on the interconnections between identity, gender, sexualities and geographical displacementAnalyses the impact of bodily and geographic migrations on 'travesti' subjectivitiesProvides...

Brazilian Evangelicalism in the Twenty-First Century: An Inside and Outside LookAuthor: Eric MillerPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jun 04, 2019Number of Pages: 390 pagesBinding:...

This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis...

This book translates the latest theoretical perspectives on the emerging field of Planetary Health Studies into the practical reality of global political decision makers. It builds on the scientific...

This book centers on the role of media in shaping public perceptions of breastfeeding. Drawing from magazines, doctors' office materials, parenting books, television, websites, and other media...

This book analyzes the combined consequences of Brexit and of the new US foreign policy under President Trump on the geopolitical situation of Eastern Europe. It perceives the evolution of the East...

The Brian Friel Papers at the National Library of Ireland are a record of a life's work in progress. They represent a way of working and of making art over a period spanning more than fifty years...

This book delves into the intricate interplay between climate change and the dynamic shifts in global power structures, focusing on the expanded BRICS. Offering a distinctive vantage point by...

This book examines the changing influences of diversity in American higher education. The volume offers evidence and recommendations to positively shape inclusive learning and engagement of students,...

Color is a visible technology that invisibly connects so many puzzling aspects of modern Western consumer societies--research and development, making and selling, predicting fashion trends, and more...

The period 2008-2022 has seen the British state/government embroiled in a number of full-blown crises, each impacting the fundamental operations of the state and demanding, therefore, urgent...

Addresses the growing social science interest in Arctic Studies and Regional GeopoliticsProvides the first book-length examination of the UK's geopolitical interests in the Arctic for more than two...

This book explores Britain?s involvement in the Dhofar War of 1963-1976, focusing on the military aspects of this conflict in Southern Oman. It reveals how both the Conservative and Labour...

Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-82: Foreign Policy, Corporations and Social MovementsAuthor: Grace LivingstonePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jun 08,...

Britain and the Mine, 1900-1915: Culture, Strategy and International LawAuthor: Richard DunleyPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: May 18, 2018Number of Pages: 317 pagesBinding: Hardback or...

Over the last two decades the frequency of humanitarian interventions in Africa has increased. The British military intervention in the Sierra Leonean civil war in the early 2000s is often cited as...

Britain's Cold War in Cyprus and Hong Kong: A Conflict of EmpiresAuthor: Christopher SuttonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Nov 17, 2016Number of Pages: 236 pagesBinding: Hardback or...

Explores the connections between Britain's civil nuclear diplomacy and European integration in the immediate post-war periodHighlights the importance of nuclear energy in diplomatic relations and the...

This monograph centres on the history of musical theatre in a space of cultural significance for British identity, namely the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which housed many prominent American...

This book argues that twenty-first-century neorealist fiction is inspired by political and journalistic discourses and, along with them, constitutes one of the many representations of the attacks on...

This text offers a theoretical engagement with the ways in which private and public interests - and how those interests have been understood - have framed the changing rationale for broadcasting...

This book analyses the British government?s use of cultural diplomacy in South Africa from 1960 to 1994. Previously, scholarship on UK-South African relations has focussed mainly on political,...

A 'one-stop shop' for churches considering the admission of children to Holy Communion The Church of England has allowed the admission of baptised children to Holy Communion before confirmation since...

This book investigates how British diplomats in Tehran and London reacted to the overthrow of the Shah and the creation of an Islamic Republic in Iran, which had previously been a major political and...

Makes an original intervention into the influence of biopolitics on the development of labor in colonial contextsExamines the spread of imperial capitalism through the works of the colonizedTakes a...

This book focuses on the departure of Britain's 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societies. Starting with an analysis of the surplus of...