Globalization Books

Multinational corporations are highly regarded by some as the crowning achievement of American enterprise. For a significant and increasingly vocal group of Americans, however, the large corporation inspires suspicion if not outright hostility.While some...

In 11 chapters by leading scholars, 'The Market Makers' provides a detailed but highly readable analysis of how retailers have become the leading drivers of the new global economy.

The banana is the world's most important fresh fruit commodity. Little more than a century old, the global banana industry began in the late 1880s as a result of technological advances such as refrigerated shipping, which facilitated the transportation...

El Presupuesto Nacional (1890) es un libro escrito por Alberto B. Martinez que se enfoca en el presupuesto del gobierno de Argentina en el a�����o 1890. En este libro, el autor analiza detalladamente los ingresos y gastos del gobierno, as������ como la...

""A Memorial of the Patriot-Martyrs of the City and County of Albany, Who Sacrificed Their Lives During the Late War in Defense of Our Nation, 1861-1865 Part 2 (1866)"" is a historical book written by Rufus Wheelwright Clark. It is a tribute to the brave...

England And Her Subject Races: With Special Reference To Jamaica is a book written by Charles Savile Roundell in 1866. The book explores the relationship between England and its subject races, with a particular focus on Jamaica. Roundell examines the...

This book develops an approach to both method and the socio-political implications of knowledge production that embraces our embeddedness in the world that we study. It seeks to enact the transformative potentials inherent in this relationship in how it...

This volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organizations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of consumption and production very much at their core.Extending...

Seoul, as one of Asia's rising global cities, has been a place where enormous changes in politics, industry, and culture have taken place over the last five decades. This book explores the new urbanism in Seoul from the perspective of global political...

This book draws on extensive ethnographic research undertaken in Russia to show how the wider sociopolitical context - the political system, relationship between the state and academia as well as the contours of the public debate - shapes knowledge about...

The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910-1929 examines the global entanglement of the Mexican labor movement during the Mexican Revolution. It describes how global influences made their entry into labor culture through the cinema, the...

Exploring faith-based organizations (FBOs) in current developmental discourses and practice, this book presents a selection of empirical in-depth case-studies of Christian FBOs and assesses the vital role credited to FBOs in current discourses on...

Over the last four decades, Dipesh Chakrabarty's astonishingly wide-ranging scholarship has elaborated a range of important issues, especially those of modernity, identity, and politics - in dialogue with postcolonial theory and critical historiography -...

Air Con is the new #1 bestseller from international award-winning investigative journalist Ian Wishart, breaking open the global warming debate into easily understood chapters that first explain the latest scientific discoveries and then explain the...

This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy. The contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic...

How does the globalization of law, the emergence of multiple and shifting venues of legal accountability, enhance or evade the fulfillment of international human rights? Alison Brysk's edited volume aims to assess the institutional and political factors...

What makes Classics "global", and what does it mean to study the ancient world "globally"? How can the study of antiquity contribute to our understanding of pressing global issues? Global Classics addresses these questions by pursuing a transdisciplinary...

Cosmopolitan conceptions of justice in global politics are gaining in importance in the field of international political theory. Cosmopolitanism claims that we owe duties of justice to all the persons of the world and thus that normative theories of...

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process - an "anticipatory politics" - that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a...

In the 19th century, colonial rule brought the modern world closer to the Indonesian peoples, introducing mechanized transport, all-weather roads, postal and telegraph communications, and steamship networks that linked Indonesia's islands to each other,...

This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and '"encounters" with several important "post-colonial" or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case studies...

Most current analysis on Latin American politics has been directed at examining the shift to the left in the region. Very little attention, however, has been paid to the reactions of the right to this phenomenon. What kind of discursive, policy, and...

This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music, and...

Globalisation - the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images - increasingly takes place through the work of organisations, perhaps the most powerful of which are multinational corporations. Based in an...

This volume demonstrates that migration- and diversity-related concepts are always contested, and provides a reflexive critical awareness and better comprehension of the complex questions driving migration studies. The main purpose of this volume is to...

This book analyzes and theorizes the efficacy of using applied theater as a tool to address refugee issues of displacement, trauma, adjustment, and psychological well-being, in addition to split community belonging.Fadi Skeiker connects refugee narratives...

International cooperation has never been more needed, but the current system of "aid" is outdated and ineffective. The Future of Aid calls for a wholesale restructuring of the aid project, a totally new approach fit for the challenges of the 21st...

Liberia V1 (1906) is a historical book written by Harry Johnston. The book provides a detailed account of the country of Liberia during the early 1900s. It covers the history, culture, politics, and economy of the country, as well as the challenges it...

The World Peril: America's Interest In The War is a book written by members of the faculty at Princeton University in 1917. The book explores America's involvement in World War I and argues for the country's entry into the conflict. The authors provide a...

""Why Christianity Did Not Prevent The War"" is a book written by Isaac J. Lansing in 1918. The book explores the reasons why Christianity failed to prevent World War I, despite the religion's emphasis on peace and love. Lansing examines the political...

""Welfare As An Economic Quantity"" is a book written by George Pendleton Watkins and originally published in 1915. The book explores the concept of welfare as an economic quantity, arguing that it is a measurable and important factor in economic...

The Mutinies And The People Or Statements Of Native Fidelity: Exhibited During The Outbreak Of 1857-58 is a book written by a Hindu author in 1859. The book is a detailed account of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Indian Mutiny or the...

The Letters of Runnymede is a collection of letters written by Benjamin Disraeli in 1836. Disraeli was a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice in the late 19th century. The letters in this book are a...

""The Press In War Time: With Some Account Of The Official Press Bureau, An Essay"" is a historical book written by Edward Tyas Cook and published in 1920. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of the press during times of war, particularly...

The Political and National Poems of Finola is a collection of poems written by the Irish poet Finola in 1877. The poems in this book are centered around political and national themes, reflecting the author's passion for Irish nationalism and independence...

""The Passing of Empire"" is a historical book written by Harold Fielding-Hall and published in 1913. The book takes a critical look at the British Empire during the early 20th century and the events that led to its eventual decline. The author examines...

The New Ceylon: Being A Sketch Of British North Borneo, Or Sabahm (1881) is a book written by Joseph Hatton, which provides a comprehensive overview of the British North Borneo region, now known as Sabah. The book was published in 1881 and offers a...

Those who regard him as a "doom and gloom" critic will find an unexpected Chomsky in these pages. Here the world-renowned author speaks for the first time in depth about his career in activism, and his views and tactics.Chomsky offers new and intimate...

Introduction to International Migration introduces students to state-of-the-art knowledge on international migration, a contemporary issue of central importance to virtually all countries around the globe. Original chapters by prominent women...

This accessible yet rigorous book examines the development of 'financial socialism' in advanced capitalist economies in the decade since the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. This new term refers to an attempt to resolve the accumulation crisis of...

Prior to the era of globalization, education in Southeast Asia was viewed in the context of the national state and it was deployed in the service of state and nation-building and national economic development. States monopolized education, and...

A wide range of science and technology issues have become the subject of international negotiations over the years. Thus this book focuses on the role of Science and Technology in foreign relations.

Consisting of former Soviet Republics, the Eurasian region has drawn international attention due to its geopolitical significance and hydrocarbon resources, which has prompted the US and other external powers like China, Turkey, Iran, the European Union...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 1,7, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: Eating is a basic need for human life and the variety of offered food...

Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 92, , language: English, abstract: NGOs often define their mission as a work with people who need help and cannot...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Thema: Globalisierung, pol. Ökonomie, Note: 1,0, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Institut für politische Wissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar...