Development studies textbooks and courses have sometimes tended to avoid significant economic content. However, without an understanding of the economic aspects of international development many of the more complex issues cannot be fully comprehended. Economics and Development Studies makes the economic dimension of discourse around controversial issues in international development accessible to second and third year undergraduate students working towards degrees in development st...

Over the past thirty years, in common with a number of other Sub-Saharan African countries, Tanzania has experienced a period of painful adjustment followed by relatively rapid and stable economic growth. However the extent of progress on poverty reduction and the sustainability of the development process are both open to question. In this book, prominent international observers provide a range of different perspectives on the process of development over time and the issues facing a rapidl...

The book follows a first edition published in 1989, which focused on the severe economic crisis Ghana faced during the late 1970s and the early 1980s. In this second edition, the authors extend the review up to the mid-2010s, covering the entire period since independence, with a special focus on shifts in economic policy, starting with the adoption of the Economic Recovery Programme in 1983. Huq and Tribe provide systematic coverage of Ghanaian economic development since its independence, ...

The Tribe is a collection of three novellas portrayinglife in an extended Muslim Allawite Lebanese-Australian family, as seen by oneof its youngest members. The first novella describes the family house in theSydney suburb of Alexandria, and the three generations who live, often in somediscord, in its rooms; the second details the marriage of a cousin, and thethreatened appearance of an estranged branch of the family at the ceremony; thethird rounds off the cycle with the death of ...

The Tribe is the epic tale of a family and its history and a family in history.The Carraches are a powerful Sephardic dynasty in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. After the Greek annexation of the city, they settle in France until, in 1940, the Nazi Occupation sends some into hiding, some into flight and others into camps. In the early 1960s, the survivors and their children confront the family's past, with long hidden secrets uncovered ...

種族是製造出來的嗎？為何一個19世紀的人種假說，讓無數知識分子、探險家、納粹領導者著迷不已？甚至成為二十世紀種族屠殺、白人至上主義的歷史源流。◎臺灣師範大學歷史系副教授楊彥彬專文解說非洲刮起的「白色」旋風　　傳教士李文斯頓失蹤了！一八七一年探險家史坦利到非洲尋人，一舉成名。其後意外「發現」土生土長的白色人種。那些面貌、膚色近似歐洲白人的當地居民，為何會出現在這塊「黑暗大陸」？此後，一股在非洲尋找白色部落的風潮由此而起，繼而蔓延到世界各地：從北極、巴拿馬、北海道、紐西蘭，直到二十世紀，世界各地都持續傳來發現白色部落的消息。高貴的白色人種控制了全世界　　尋找白色部落的過程，猶如一段「人類再發現」之旅。這段過程也和十九世紀的人種理論的誕生緊密相關。當時科學家以世界各地「發現」的白色部落作為證據，推演出新的人類演化和遷徙過程理論。人類學、考古學、語言學和生物學等學科全都牽扯其中。甚至，化身為社會達爾文主義下，優勝劣敗的完美演繹，以此作為殖民理論的基礎。他們...

A detailed look at the warriors of the Native Americans who lived around the Great Lakes.This book details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee tribes into the colonial European Wars.During the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, these tribes took sides and became important all...

The horse culture of the tribes of the High Plains of North America lasted only some 170 years.In that time the sub-tribes of the Teton or Western Sioux people imprinted a vivid image on the world's imagination by their fearless but doomed fight to protect their land from the increasing spread of the white man.This text outlines the history, social organization, religion and material culture of the Santee, Yankton and Teton Sioux; rare early photographs inc...

This focuses on the history, costume, and material culture of the native peoples of North America.It was in the Southwest – modern Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of California and other neighboring states – that the first major clashes took place between 16th-century Spanish conquistadors and the indigenous peoples of North America. Despite nearly 500 years of white settlement and pressure, the traditional cultures of the peoples of the Southwest survive today more...

A detailed look at the warriors of the Native Americans who lived around the Great Lakes.This book details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee tribes into the colonial European Wars.During the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, these tribes took sides and became important all...

This focuses on the history, costume, and material culture of the native peoples of North America.It was in the Southwest – modern Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of California and other neighboring states – that the first major clashes took place between 16th-century Spanish conquistadors and the indigenous peoples of North America. Despite nearly 500 years of white settlement and pressure, the traditional cultures of the peoples of the Southwest survive today more...

Men are experiencing growing feelings of anger, anxiety, lack of hope, lack of purpose, and a craving for growth and development. If left unchecked, these feelings become a breeding ground for depression. Ultimately, it is not the just the individual man who suffers from this misery; these sentiments end up bleeding over into the lives of those around them. The best way to address these feelings of hopelessness is through honest conversation.In Tribe of Men, author Michael...