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  • State Formation, Property Relations, & the Development of the Tokugawa Economy (1600-1868)

    by Grace Kwon ...
    Series series East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
    Before the late 1960s, Japan historians characterized the Early Modern Japanese economy in waht are typical feudal terms. Considered backward and stagnant, it was argued that the economy eventually collapsed under the weight of its own internal limitations. This narrative has given way in the past two decades to a new interpretation in which Japan's pre-industrial economy is protrayed as one of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • A Short History of Japan

    From samurai to Sony

    by Curtis Andressen ...
    New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a comprehensive, readable history of the land of the Rising Sun, from its ancient origins to its fascinating present.Japan is a country of contradictions and extremes. It is a country of age-old practices and cutting edge technology, strong martial traditions and refined artistic accomplishments. Few countries have been the ... Read more

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  • An Uncertain Glory

    India and its Contradictions

    by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen ...
    When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last three ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Labour Contracts and Labour Relations in Early Modern Central Japan

    by Mary Louise Nagata ...
    Series series Changing Labour Relations in Asia
    Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they developed in the commercial enterprises of Tokugawa Japan. The urban focus is Kyoto, the cultural capital and smallest of the three great cities of the Tokugawa period, but the data comes from a wider region of commercial and castle towns and rural villages ... Read more

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  • Taming Tibet

    Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development

    by Emily Yeh ...
    The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In Taming Tibet, Emily T. Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Phoenix Moment

    Challenges Confronting the Indian Left

    by Praful Bidwai ...
    'Praful Bidwai's analysis and conclusions compel serious engagement both by academics and political leaders.' - K.N. Panikkar'Bidwai's assessments will undoubtedly trigger further discussion.' - Romila Thapar'Praful raises the right questions and is scrupulously fair.' - Susan GeorgeIndia still has a significant and relatively powerful communist movement. In spite of the massive set... ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • An Economist in the Real World

    The Art of Policymaking in India

    by Kaushik Basu ...
    An economist's perspective on the nuts and bolts of economic policymaking, based on his experience as the Chief Economic Adviser in India.In December 2009, the economist Kaushik Basu left the rarefied world of academic research for the nuts and bolts of policymaking. Appointed by the then Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, to be chief economic adviser (CEA) to the Government of India, Basu—a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Proletarian Gamble

    Korean Workers in Interwar Japan

    by Ken C. Kawashima, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depression in Japan, migrant Korean peasants arrived on Japanese soil amid extreme instability in the labor and housing markets. In The Proletarian Gamble, Ken C. Kawashima maintains that contingent labor ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Peasants and Workers in Nepal

    100% Pure Adrenaline

    by D.Snddon ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    The fieldwork on which this collection of essays on peasants and workers in Nepal is based was undertaken in the mid-1970s, by an international team associated with the Overseas Development Group at the University of East Anglia. The fieldwork also gave rise to several other publications, including Nepal in Crisis and The Struggle for Basic Needs in Nepal (both now re-published by Adroit ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The New Bihar

    by Nicholas Stern ...
    Well-known economists and policy makers look at the Bihar model of development and discuss the challenges ahead During the 1990s, Bihar's development failed to benefit from the acceleration in India's economic growth, principally because of a steep decline in the already low standards of governance. this changed dramatically after November 2005, when The Nitish Kumar government came to power. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State

    England, Japan, and China

    by Wenkai He ...
    The rise of modern public finance revolutionized political economy. As governments learned to invest tax revenue in the long-term financial resources of the market, they vastly increased their administrative power and gained the ability to use fiscal, monetary, and financial policy to manage their economies. But why did the modern fiscal state emerge in some places and not in others? In ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • State Formation and Radical Democracy in India

    by Manali Desai ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create better life chances. Going back to pre-independence, colonial India, Manali Desai takes a long historical ... Read more

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