India has been a democratic polity for more than four decades since its independence. During this period Indian society has changed unrecognisably in almost every walk of life. It will be appropriate to stand back and look at these changes in Indian society and polity objectively and without bias in order to face the new challenges and opportunities as a part of a reappraisal of India's social …
William Gairdner's book will have a special impact on American readers who sometimes get the impression that political-economic treatises that blow down this way from up there are all written by godchildren of John Kenneth Galbraith. Gairdner sees bright and clear what Canada so greatly needs, and his mobilizing passion wonderfully animates an analytical precision that should be the reason for …
One in a series of short books devoted to different countries that offers much-needed cross-cultural and global material to instructors. Used alongside an introductory sociology text or as a supplement in courses on comparative societies, comparative politics, comparative economics, or social stratification, this book brings a rich global perspective into the undergraduate classroom. The openin…
The third edition of Re Orient: Change in Asian Societies provides up-to-date information on the important issues and trends in this dynamic region. It analyses them without resorting to oversimplifications or stereotypes, doing justice to the rich variety of the cultural traditions and historical experience within the region. The discussion is clear, direct and free of jargon, and all subjects…
The book also explores the role of the ethnographer involved in anthropology and suggests how one can develop an ethnographic praxis to be expressed cooperatively with a community. This exploration and synthesis of both a changing community and the means of interpretation will be of interest to anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists, and students of political science looking at the effect…
This book clearly and unequivocally states the contribution of Namibian women to the struggle for independence and freedom. More important the experience is conveyed through the words of the women themselves.
In the Dutch East Indies, in Batavia in particular, the kapitan Cina institution lasted until the last days of Dutch rule. And whereas in other parts of Southeast Asia, such as the Straits Settlements, the kapitan Cina was an unofficial position, in the Dutch East Indies it was an integral part of the colonial administration
The work sets the general, historical and social framework in which the Malagasy adventure of a “foreign minority” took place. This book will in fact be about a Sunni Muslim community in Madagascar (a minority compared to the Khodja Shiites), a Creole-speaking community of some six hundred people established for more than a hundred years in Tamatave, the country's first port, capital of the…
Steele illuminates the origins of the conflict in race relations today--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between blacks and whites. With candid and persuasive arguments, he shows us how both black and white Americans have become trapped into seeing color before character, and how social policies designed to lessen racial differences have instead made them greater. The Content …
This book is mostly about the economics of inequality. In various essays in this volume, Stiglitz describing the nexus between politics and economics: the vicious circle by which more economic inequality gets translated into political inequality, especially in America's political system, which gives such unbridled power to money.