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| 1. |  | Title: Chinese history in economic perspective  Author: Rawski, Thomas G 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. Previous work has emphasized the institutional and social bases of economic change. These studies break new ground, bringing Western economic theory to the study of China's economy since the seventeenth cen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Liberalization in the process of economic development Author: Krause, Lawrence B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Economic growth in all developing countries is guided, and often accelerated, by generally intrusive policies implemented by governments intent on playing an active role in furthering development. As economies have grown and become more complex, however, even small market distortions are magnified, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: The waning of the communist state: economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary Author: Walder, Andrew George Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | European History | Asian History | China | European Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This collection of essays offers a compelling explanation for the decline of communism in the two countries that went the furthest with economic reforms - China and Hungary. Articulating a vision of change that serves as a counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on citizen resistance and protest, th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Postindustrial possibilities: a critique of economic discourse Author: Block, Fred L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Labor Studies | Sociology | Labor Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "postindustrial" age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, Fred Block, sheds obsolete and shopworn economic analysis by presenting a bold, sweeping reconceptual . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Imagining development: economic ideas in Peru's "fictitious prosperity" of guano, 1840-1880 Author: Gootenberg, Paul 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Economics and Business | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Retelling the saga of Peru's nineteenth-century age of guano, Paul Gootenberg provides the first book in English to explore the historical genealogy of Latin America's postcolonial economic thought. He scrutinizes the mentalities, ideas, and visions that led the country down an ill-fated path of exp . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: The magistrate's tael: rationalizing fiscal reform in eighteenth-century Chʿing China Author: Zelin, Madeleine Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possib . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Domestic individualism: imagining self in nineteenth-century America Author: Brown, Gillian Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | Gender Studies | United States History | American Studies Publisher's Description: Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The political logic of economic reform in China Author: Shirk, Susan L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | China Publisher's Description: In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Rural China takes off: institutional foundations of economic reform Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: A golden state: mining and economic development in gold rush California Author: Rawls, James J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: California and the West | American Studies | Natural History | Geography | Californian and Western History | United States History Publisher's Description: California's storied Gold Rush triggered momentous changes not only for the state, but also for the nation and the world. The economic impact of that epoch-making event is the focus of the second volume of the California History Sesquicentennial Series. The chapter contributors offer a range of pers . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Double-edged diplomacy: international bargaining and domestic politics Author: Evans, Peter B 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Public Policy | Sociology Publisher's Description: This original look at the dynamics of international relations untangles the vigorous interaction of domestic and international politics on subjects as diverse as nuclear disarmament, human rights, and trade. An eminent group of political scientists demonstrates how international bargaining that refl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Women and economics: a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860-1935 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | History | American Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics , was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Poverty in America: a handbook Author: Iceland, John 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Economics and Business | Ethnic Studies | Labor Studies | Politics | Urban Studies | American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Poverty may have always been with us, but it hasn't always been the same. In an in-depth look at trends, patterns, and causes of poverty in the United States, John Iceland combines the latest statistical information, historical data, and social scientific theory to provide a comprehensive picture of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 Author: Herbst, Jeffrey Ira Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | African Studies Publisher's Description: Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas during the coming decade. In this first full-length examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst de . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Women and the economic miracle: gender and work in postwar Japan Author: Brinton, Mary C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Gender Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Japan | Sociology | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that depends on their labor to maintain its status as a world economic leader. Drawing upon historical materials, survey and statistical data, and ext . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The paradox of plenty: oil booms and petro-states Author: Karl, Terry Lynn 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The Paradox of Plenty explains why, in the midst of two massive oil booms in the 1970s, oil-exporting governments as different as Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Algeria, and Indonesia chose common development paths and suffered similarly disappointing outcomes. Meticulously documented and theoretically i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The black homelands of South Africa: the political and economic development of Bophuthatswana and KwaZulu Author: Butler, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: African Studies | African History | Politics Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The fountain of privilege: political foundations of markets in Old Regime France and England Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | Economics and Business | European History | Sociology | French Studies Publisher's Description: Hilton Root's new book applies contemporary economic and political theory to answer long-standing historical questions about modernization. It contrasts political stability in Georgian England with the collapse of the Old Regime in France. Why did a century of economic expansion rupture France's pol . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Between marriage and the market: intimate politics and survival in Cairo Author: Hoodfar, Homa Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Homa Hoodfar's richly detailed ethnography provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of Arab Muslim families. Focusing on the impact of economic liberalization policies from 1983 to 1993, she shows the crucial role of the household in survival strategies among low-income Egyptians. Hoodfar, an Ira . . . [more] Similar Items |