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  • Ida Greaves

    A Pioneer Development Economist

    by Barbara Ingham ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the "missing female voices" of early development economics. This biography, the first for Ida Greaves, attempts to construct her career and era before the past wholly disappears.The biography covers her early years in Barbados, her time at boarding school in England, at McGill University in Canada where she focused on human behaviour under ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Development Studies and Colonial Policy

    by Barbara Ingham, Colin Simmons ...
    First Published in 1987. This volume is the product of a number of meetings held by the Third World History and Development Study Group, which is one of several study groups sponsored by the Development Studies Association. The Group was formed in 1978 at the Development Studies Association Conference held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. It comprises people who for one reason or another ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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    A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008

    by Alois Mlambo, Brian Raftopoulos ...
    Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history of a nation-in-the-making should not be reduced to a selective heroic tradition, but should be a ... Read more

    $139.79 USD

  • Against the Law

    Why Justice Requires Fewer Laws and a Smaller State

    by David Renton ...
    One of Britain’s leading barristers argues for a world in which the law should play a smaller part in all our lives.Understanding the main political projects of our times, and their plans to expand or shrink the law, is the first step towards achieving greater equality and averting climate disaster.Since 2016, Britain has been ruled by populists, who promise to expand democracy and shrink the law ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Women and Political Power

    Europe since 1945

    by Simon Henig ...
    Series series The Making of the Contemporary World
    The advance of women through the political system has been one of the most significant developments of the second half of the twentieth century. For the first time we have seen women Prime Ministers and Presidents in Europe.Women and Political Power examines the extent of progress women have made in ten western European countries, and looks at the factors which have helped, or hindered, their ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Politics of the Labour Party Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 55

    Edited by Dennis Kavanagh ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Political Science
    It would be differcult to think of any political party whose internal problems have been so publicly scrutinised as have those of the Labour Party in recent years. The authors of The Politics of the Labour Party were not specifically asked to consider the question-why Labour? There has been no shortage of published views on that subject. Instead they were invited to look at certain themes and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Brexit Effect

    What Leaving the EU Means for British Politics

    by Gianfranco Baldini, Edoardo Bressanelli, Emanuele Massetti ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in British Politics
    This book examines the seismic impact of Brexit on the British political system, assessing its likely long-term effect in terms of a significantly changed political and constitutional landscape.Starting with the 2015 general election and covering key developments up to "Brexit Day", it shows how Brexit "transformed" British politics. The unprecedented turmoil – two snap elections, three Prime ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • About Canada: Women’s Rights

    by Penni Mitchell ...
    Series Book 12 - About Canada
    This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the feminist struggle is as necessary as ever — but thanks to the hard work of activist women, many forms of discrimination are a thing of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Australia's Great Depression

    How a nation shattered by the Great War survived the worst economic crisis it has ever faced

    by Joan Beaumont ...
    How a nation still in grief from the Great War found the courage and resilience to face a new tragedy, the Great Depression.Highly Commended in the 2022 NSW Premier's History AwardsSome generations are born unlucky. Australians who survived the horrors of the Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed were soon faced with the shock of the Great Depression. Today we remember long dole ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present

    by James Vernon ...
    Series Book 4 - Cambridge History of Britain
    This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an account of the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work. The history takes seriously the different experiences within the British Isles and the British Empire, and offers ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Tax, Order, and Good Government

    A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917

    by Elsbeth Heaman ...
    Series Book 240 - Carleton Library Series
    Was Canada’s Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a privileged measure of both political agency and political domination. To pay one’s taxes was the sine qua non of entry into political life, but taxes are also the point of politics, which is always about the control of wealth. Modern states have everywhere been born of ... Read more

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  • Renewing the Republic

    by Michael D. Higgins ...
    Michael D. Higgins' vision as part of his Presidential election campaign and now following through to his tenure as President of Ireland, is 'of [an] inclusive citizenship in a creative society, as we build a real Republic that makes us proud to be Irish in the world'. Renewing the Republicis an expansion of that vision as Michael D. lays out, through a series of essays and speeches, the ideals ... Read more

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