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Development Matters eBook Series

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  • Thinking about Development

    by Bjorn Hettne ...
    Series series Development Matters
    This book is a concise and accessible introduction to development thinking, contemporary development theory and practice and - a critical analysis of the values that lie behind them. Hettne argues that schools of development thinking should be historically contextualized, not presented as evolving towards a universal theory. The book will present development as an 'essentially contested concept', ... Read more

    $25.64 CAD

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  • Anti-Capitalism

    by Ezequiel Adamovsky ...
    Translated by Marie Trigona ...
    In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky tells the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against rising corporate power, as that struggle unfolds in the halls of academia, in the pages of radical ... Read more

    $12.23 CAD

  • Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations

    by Martin Griffiths, Steven C. Roach, M. Scott Solomon ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Now in its second edition, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations has been thoroughly updated with several new entries and a new preface to reflect the latest developments. There are new sections on Constructivism, International Political Theory, and English School, as well as a range of new thinkers. They include:Samuel HuntingtonChristine SylvesterJürgen HabermasJohn RawlsBarr... ... Read more

    $64.05 CAD

  • Multiculturalism Within a Bilingual Framework

    Language, Race, and Belonging in Canada

    by Eve Haque ...
    From the time of its inception in Canada, multiculturalism has generated varied reactions, none more starkly than between French and English Canadians. In this groundbreaking new work, Eve Haque examines the Government of Canada's attempt to forge a national policy of unity based on ’multiculturalism within a bilingual framework,‘ a formulation that emerged out of the Royal Commission on ... Read more

    $30.23 CAD

  • Spaces of Capital

    Towards a Critical Geography

    by David Harvey ...
    David Harvey is the most influential geographer of our era, possessing a reputation that extends across the social sciences and humanities. Spaces of Capital, a collection of seminal articles and new essays spanning three decades, demonstrates why his work has had-and continues to have-such a major impact. The book gathers together some of Harvey's best work on two of his central concerns: the ... Read more

    $113.33 CAD

  • Nationalism

    Theory, Ideology, History

    by Anthony D. Smith ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies can match its power and resonance, and no other political movement and symbolic language has such worldwide appeal and resilience. But nationalism is also a form of public culture and political religion, which draws on much older cultural and symbolic forms.Seeking to do justice to these ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Great Persuasion

    Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression

    by Angus Burgin ...
    Just as today’s observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most basic assumptions ... Read more

    $31.58 CAD

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  • European Identity

    Edited by Jeffrey T. Checkel, Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    Series series Contemporary European Politics
    Why are hopes fading for a single European identity? Economic integration has advanced faster and further than predicted, yet the European sense of 'who we are' is fragmenting. Exploiting decades of permissive consensus, Europe's elites designed and completed the single market, the euro, the Schengen passport-free zone, and, most recently, crafted an extraordinarily successful policy of ... Read more

    $31.67 CAD

  • Social Movements in Global Politics

    by David West ...
    Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, ‘extra-institutional’ activities of social movements.In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a conventional view of politics risks leaving us confused and fatalistic, feeling powerless because we are unaware of all that can be achieved by political means. By contrast, a variety of recent ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Modernity

    by Peter Wagner ...
    We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ mean and how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us to understand the world today? These are the questions that Peter Wagner sets out to answer in this concise and accessible book.Wagner begins by returning to the question of modernity's Western origins and its claims to open up a new and better era in the history of humanity. Modernity's claims and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Understanding Marx: Flash

    by Gill Hands ...
    The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Understanding Marx is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to Marxism. In just 96 pages, the reader will learn all the key Marxist ideas and theories. Ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious, Understanding ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Global Development Crisis

    by Benjamin Selwyn ...
    The central paradox of the contemporary world is the simultaneous presence of wealth on an unprecedented scale, and mass poverty. Liberal theory explains the relationship between capitalism and poverty as one based around the dichotomy of inclusion (into capitalism) vs exclusion (from capitalism). Within this discourse, the global capitalist system is portrayed as a sphere of economic dynamism and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD