In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment, rather than through free trade. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successful development from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East. Yet despite its demonstrable sucess,…
After a bloody revolution of more than four years (1945- 1949), Indonesia won her freedom from Holland with the transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia in December 1949. Holland had colonized Indonesia for more than three hundred years. What is now called Indonesia was formerly "The Netherlands East Indies" and consisted, according to the Dutch Constitution, of the whole of the Netherlands East In…
The economics of everyday life in everyday terms, brought to life by a young and very talented economis
This book attempts to reduce the history of modern Jordan into a readable narrative, tracing the stages of the country's political and demographic development under the Hashemite monarchy, and explaining the internal, regional and international circumstances and constraints whitin which the Jordanian state has functioned since it was first established.
This book is an objective appraisal of the events that have rocked Laos ever since it achieved independence, with particular em- phasis on the period between the two Geneva conferences (1954 and 1961). The normal difficulties of every newly inde- pendent nation trying to consolidate its national government were aggravated by the constant interference of its neighbors. Communist North Vietnam ha…
The world factbook has long been a valued source of information for goverment employees. Now this highly acclaimed source of important unclassified data is finally available to the general public.
Collected speeches by Indian political leaders and few international leaders on bilateral relations and national security issues of India post 1984
As press secretary and close friend to John F. Kennedy, from the early days of the Democratic primary through the Presidential years, Pierre Salinger offers an expert and warmly human perspective on the founding and forg- ing of the New Frontier, and the fan- tastic complexities and pressures that go with being press secretary to the President of the United States. Salinger, a master of the fas…
Examines the Caribbean experience from slavery through to the post-independence period. Divided into 4 broad thematic areas, the articles demonstrate the impact of colonialism and the plantation system on Caribbean Life and highlight the efforts that Caribbean peoples have made to uplift themselves from the trammels of colonialism.
Opposing Suharto presents an accout of democratization in the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia. It describes how opposition groups challenged the long-time ruler, President Suharto, and his military-based regime, forcing him to resign in 1998. The book's main purpose is to explain how ordinary people can bring about political change in a repressive authoritarian regime. It does t…