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British Dogmatism and French Pragmatism: Central-Local Policymaking in the Welfare State
1st Edition
By Douglas E. Ashford
June 15, 2025
First published in 1982, British Dogmatism and French Pragmatism presents an inquiry into how national political and administrative constraints affect the formulation and implementation of local government reform. This comparative study between British and French local politics and policymaking ...
Financing Urban Government in the Welfare State
1st Edition
Edited
By Douglas E. Ashford
June 15, 2025
First Published in 1980, Financing Urban Government in the Welfare State shows how intergovernmental structures have now become the main policy device designed for an earlier age and often for quite different purposes, linking national and local policymaking. Special attention is given to the ...
National Resources and Urban Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Douglas E. Ashford
June 15, 2025
First published in 1980 National Resources and Urban Policy critically examines how resource constraints affect urban development and urban policy making. With case studies from the United States, several European countries and Japan it brings themes like federal assistance programs; local ...
Salvation of the Soul and Islamic Devotion
1st Edition
By M. A. Quasem
June 15, 2025
First Published in 1983, Salvation of the Soul and Islamic Devotion demonstrates that salvation is a central concept of the religion of Islam, even though its meaning, causes and results according to Islam may differ from what is taught by Christianity and other world religions. The first chapter ...
The End of Tradition: Country Life in Central Surrey
1st Edition
By John Connell
June 15, 2025
First published in 1978, The End of Tradition is the history of four Surrey villages, the Horsleys and Clandons, close to London but isolated and protected from it by the Green Belt. Towards the end of the last century, a period of rapid change began in rural England as a new way of life centred on...
The History of the Borough of High Wycombe: from its origins to 1880
1st Edition
By L. J. Ashford
June 15, 2025
First Published in 1960, The History of the Borough of High Wycombe presents the history of an English community, which in the space of some seven hundred years, grew up, flourished and declined and eventually superseded. Even by the standards of the Middle Ages Wycombe was a small town and ...
The West Bank Palestinian Family
1st Edition
By Abe W Ata
June 15, 2025
First published in 1986 The West Bank Palestinian Family presents the reader with the first comprehensive study of the evolution of the Palestinian family in the West Bank. The main focus of the work was to identify what changes, if any, the Palestinian family has undergone over the last three ...
The Early Abbasid Caliphate: A Political History
1st Edition
By Hugh Kennedy
June 09, 2025
The early Abbasid Caliphate was an important period for Islam. The dynasty, based in Baghdad, ruled over a vast Empire, stretching from the Indus Valley and Southern Russia to the East to Tunisia in the West; and presided over an age of brilliant cultural achievements. This study, first published ...
British Paternalism and Africa, 1920–1940
1st Edition
By Penelope Hetherington
June 06, 2025
British Paternalism and Africa (1978) is a study of the beliefs and assumptions of members of the British intelligentsia who concerned themselves with British–African politics in the period between the wars. The journals and books published in Britain during this period were used as source material...
Gold Dust: The California Gold Rush and the Forty-Niners
1st Edition
By Donald Dale Jackson
June 06, 2025
Gold Dust (1980) looks at the adventures and ordeals, delusions and successes and catastrophes of the men and women – the forty-niners – caught up in the gold rush. The author tells the story of the gold rush through the experiences, feelings and thoughts of the people who participated in it....
Matriliny and Modernity: Sexual Politics and Social Change in Rural Malaysia
1st Edition
By Maila Stivens
June 06, 2025
Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri Sembilan in a rapidly modernising Malaysia. Written from a feminist anthropological viewpoint, it considers how far both the colonial and post-colonial remakings of ...
Nuclear Power in the Developing World
1st Edition
By Daniel Poneman
June 06, 2025
Nuclear Power in the Developing World (1982) explores the issue of nuclear power policies in developing countries. The sharp oil price rises of the 1970s attracted widespread attention to nuclear power as an alternative energy source, while some developing countries began attaining the ...