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For over two hundred years the domination of some countries by others has been intrinsic to international relations, with national economic and political strength viewed as essential to a nation's survival and global position. Mastering Space identifies the essential features of this "state-centredn...
Author
John Agnew, Stuart Corbridge
Binding
Paperback
Pages
260
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN #
0415094348
EAN Code
9780415094344
ISBN #
5
The Development Reader brings togetherfifty-four key readings on development history, theory and policy: Adam Smith and Karl Marx meet, among others, Robert Wade, Amartya Sen and Jeffrey Sachs. It shows how debates around development have been structured by different readings of the roles played by ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
592
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN #
0415415055
EAN Code
9780415415057
ISBN #
3
Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house...
Author
Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey
Binding
Paperback
Pages
332
Publisher
Polity
ISBN #
0745661122
EAN Code
9780745661124
ISBN #
1
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Polity
ISBN #
8
This collection of original essays by scholars of geography from India, Western Europe, and the USA provides important insights into the way contemporary geographers are engaging with India. The earlier narrow colonial focus that saw India as a country of resources and "peoples" (tribes and castes) ...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
356
Publisher
SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
ISBN #
0761934367
EAN Code
9780761934363
ISBN #
10
Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state? This book considers the Indian example where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by encounters staged at the local level, and are also informed by ideas circulated by th...
Author
Stuart Corbridge, Glyn Williams, Manoj Srivastava, René Véron
Binding
Paperback
Pages
334
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
159385711X
EAN Code
9780521542555
ISBN #
6
When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more recently his vision of India has been challenged by tw...
Author
Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Polity
ISBN #
0745620779
EAN Code
9780745620770
ISBN #
4
A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the e...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN #
0415598117
EAN Code
9780415598118
ISBN #
2