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The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy, 1978 to 2020Barry Naughton Can China's remarkable, rapid emergence as a large economy and technological power be attributed to specific policies, and more generally to a Chinese program of industrial policy? More simply put: What is it that China has done right? This is the fundamental question that Barry Naughton addresses in his extended essay.
Disentangling the threads of China's industrial policies since More > | |
Latino Political Power, 2nd editionSharon A. Navarro and Kim Geron This new, fully revised edition of Latino Political Power reflects a diverse community evolving in its ethnic, racial, and sexual identities, as well as in its voting behavior and party affiliations.
Sharon Navarro and Kim Geron map the transformation of Latino political power from the 1960s to the present. Comprehensive and accessible, their analysis of the complex processes of political More > | |
Anatomy of the ANC in Power: Insights from Port Elizabeth, 1990-2019Mcebisi Ndletyana Choice Outstanding Academic Book!
Observers reacted with shock to the 2016 African National Congress electoral loss in Port Elizabeth, once an ANC stronghold. Yet, argues Mcebisi Ndletyana, that loss should not have come as a surprise—nor, perhaps, should the subsequent absence of reforms within the party.
Ndletyana explores power and politics in Port Elizabeth since 1990, tracing the More > | |
The Congress Movement, Volume 1: The Unfolding of the Congress Alliance 1912-1961Sylvia Neame The Congress Movement, based on primary and secondary sources including some 80 interviews dating back to the early 1960s, uniquely combines narrative and analysis.
Volume 1 traces the unfolding of the congress movement from its beginnings early in the 20th Century and looks at socialist and other forces that played an integral part in its formation. The 1918-1920 upsurge, which included More > | |
The Congress Movement, Volume 2: The Unfolding of the Congress Alliance 1912-1961Sylvia Neame The Congress Movement, based on primary and secondary sources including some 80 interviews dating back to the early 1960s, uniquely combines narrative and analysis.
Volume 2 examines the intricate development of the ICU and the ANC in the second half of the 1920s. Various trends of reformism and radicalism affected these two organizations. This later led to the beginning of the breakup of the More > | |
The Congress Movement, Volume 3: The Unfolding of the Congress Alliance 1912-1961Sylvia Neame The Congress Movement, based on primary and secondary sources including some 80 interviews dating back to the early 1960s, uniquely combines narrative and analysis.
Volume 3 explores how the ANC emerges and stps into its primary role as a national liberation movement resulting from a complex process stretching from the 1920s to the beginning of the 1960s. A key theme in this context is the More > | |
The Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa: I Look Back 30 YearsSylvia Neame Historian Sylvia Neame portrays, from a unique vantage point, the unfolding of the peace process in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As a scholar, a member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, and a former prisoner of the apartheid regime, Neame weaves together her personal contributions with historical accounts to offer rare insight into the More > | |
The European Union: Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration, 4th editionBrent F. Nelsen and Alexander Stubb, editors The fourth edition of this popular reader, thoroughly updated, introduces students to both the concept of a united Europe and to integration theory.
The expanded first two sections of the book now present the visions of the primary shapers of the union and its fundamental documents, as well as early currents in integration theory. The completely revised third and fourth sections explore recent More > | |
Apples of Gold in Filigrees of Silver: Jewish Writing in the Eye of the Spanish InquisitionColbert I. Nepaulsingh During the Spanish Inquisition, daring individuals defied and thwarted persecution by writing works in which hidden meanings were apparent only to Jews or fellow conversos, the descendants of Jewish converts to Christianity. Colbert Nepaulsingh analyzes three seminal, sixteenth-century novels as converso works—Lazarillo, a prototype of the picaresque novel; El Abencerraje, of the Moorish More > | |
Turkish Short Stories from Four DecadesAziz Nesin, translated and introduced by Louis Mitler These twenty stories show the broad range of iconoclast, fabulist, realist, satirist, avant- gardist Aziz Nesin (1915-1995), long considered a major voice in contemporary Turkish fiction. Like many Turkish writers, Nesin was born into poverty, saw his work censured, and suffered imprisonment; as these stories demonstrate, however, his voice is very much his own, rich with insights into the social More > |