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Hardback. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it appeared that the only option for developing countries was integration into the world economy. Written by a group of international experts, this book investigates the strategies deployed by Cuba and Vietnam to consider whether 'socialism', in some form, offers a viable development alternative. Editor(s): Brundenius, Claes; Weeks, John. Num Pages: 293 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KJC; 1QFG; GTF; JFFS; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333800430
ISBN
9780333800430
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.21

Hardcover. This work analyzes Latin American women's movements within liberal, authoritarian and revolutionary states. It studies Argentina, Nicaragua and Cuba alongside comparative discussions of socialism, women's movements and citizenship and examines the interaction of states and women's movements. Series: Institute of Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KLCN; 1KLSA; 3JJ; GTF; JFFK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 509.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333786772
ISBN
9780333786772
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardback. This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-century Ireland and discusses the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies in the Caribbean and North America. Num Pages: 408 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333770993
ISBN
9780333770993
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.49

Hardback. Eudine Barriteau exposes the precarious position of women in 20th-century Caribbean societies through analyzing the operations of gender systems. The strategies used by developing states to focus on women are criticized as inadequate. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JJ; JFFK; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333732823
ISBN
9780333732823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Hardback. With the approach of the 21st century, global changes are rendering the Caribbean's traditional economic platform obsolete. This text suggests that the expanding NAFTA or the hemispheric turn towards bloc formation may offer a solution. Series: Macmillan International Political Economy S. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JPSN; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333714348
ISBN
9780333714348
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Hardback. This text examines the relations between Haiti and the United States through the literature of both countries. The West's mythification of Haiti is a strategy used to justify either ostracism or domination, a process traced here from the 19th century until it emerges strongly in the 1960s. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJH; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 269.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333680179
ISBN
9780333680179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.42

Hardback. The essays in this collection show the pervasive presence of Dante in modern writing since the late 18th century. The contributors emphasize his influence on major British and Irish writers and also explore the responses in America, the Caribbean and Italy. Editor(s): Havely, N.R. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1DST; 1KBB; 1KJ; 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 521.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333670040
ISBN
9780333670040
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.49

Hardcover. With particular reference to the multi-party political systems of Botswana, Jamaica, Sri Lanka and Zambia under the Third Republic, this text presents case studies in accountable government and the management of the public funds. Editor(s): Healey, John; Tordoff, William. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKS; 1HFMB; 1HFMZ; 1KJWJ; JPA; JPH; KCP; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 521.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333638873
ISBN
9780333638873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.19

Hardcover. This text explores through theory and in-depth textual criticism how novelists from formerly colonized societies have exploited indigenous codes and conventions of aesthetic representation to transform the novel into an effective medium for cultural and political resistance to (neo)colonialism. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJW; 1MKP; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 509.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333638699
ISBN
9780333638699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.85

Paperback. A collection of essays for departments of sociology/anthropology, Caribbean and religious studies. Topics covered include: cultural continuity between Rastafari and Reviva; the Ndyuka and Winti religions; the symbolism of dreadlocks and Rastafari integration in British society. Editor(s): Chevannes, Barry. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; 1QSC; HRK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333637777
ISBN
9780333637777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.10

Hardcover. The overall objective of this study is to offer new insights into the contemporary problems associated with dependency, development and underdevelopment by examining these phenomena in the context of Cuba's capitalist and socialist development. Series: Macmillan International Political Economy S. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JPFF; JPFM; KCC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 389.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333521250
ISBN
9780333521250
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.83

hardcover. An analysis of the interplay between the Voodoo cult and the complexity of Haitian politics from the colonial period to the post Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier era. The author attempts to reveal the strategic role played by Voodoo ideology and cult leaders during the Haitian Revolution. Num Pages: 161 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJH; HRQX; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
161
Condition
New
Edition
1989th Edition
SKU
V9780333468524
ISBN
9780333468524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.42

Hardback. This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that embraces the forms of travelogue, autobiography, and ethnographic accounts as vehicles for women's rewriting of "flawed" or incomplete accounts of Caribbean cultures and societies. Editor(s): Paravisini-Gerbe, Lisabeth; Romero-Cesareo, Yvette. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 551.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312219963
ISBN
9780312219963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.36

Shows how America began to intervene in world affairs. This book covers developments in New York, Washington, Santo Domingo, Brussels, and London. It recounts a little-known incident: the takeover by the Santo Domingo Improvement Company (SDIC) of the foreign debt, national railroad, and national bank of the Dominican Republic. Series: Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History. Num Pages: 190 pages, 8 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJD; 3JJ; HBT; JPSD; KCL; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125864
ISBN
9780231125864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.75

Hardcover. This book investigates Kamau Brathwaite's and Derek Walcott's postcolonial debates, reading them against the traditional sites of the Caribbean imaginary. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230623644
ISBN
9780230623644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.45

Hardcover. This book looks at Cuban and Argentine theater of the late 1960s and early 1970s to see how the idea of spectacle as violence was used to comment on and question the social and political violence that was unfolding offstage. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KLSA; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230613140
ISBN
9780230613140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardcover. Utilizing cross-cultural strands, this comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible cities reworking the notion of the city as both instituted social space and imaginary community. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230612181
ISBN
9780230612181
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Hardcover. Betancourt examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse. Translator(s): Frye, David. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230606586
ISBN
9780230606586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. This technology includes the internet, the computer, the cell phone, television, and radio, among others. Best argues that Caribbean culture has gone wireless, virtual, and simulated in the age of the machines. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603769
ISBN
9780230603769
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.15

Hardcover. This timely book presents a history of the relationship between the Cuban Revolution and intellectuals and activists in France, Britain and the United States, exploring the 'complete cycle' in this relationship and using it to examine the future of Cuba's symbolic status among intellectuals and activists in the West. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJP; 3JMC; JPWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 211 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603011
ISBN
9780230603011
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

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