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hardcover. John Palmer was the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century. This book presents an account of both of Palmer's business and personal life, showing how his personal relations and circumstances shaped his commercial strategies. Series: Worlds of the East India Company. Num Pages: 216 pages, 5 black and white,. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; 3JH; BGB; HBJF; HBLL; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Boydell Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781843833031
- ISBN
- 9781843833031
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.50
€ 125.50
Paperback. This ethnographic study provides a holistic, multi-stakeholder view of the first twenty years of tourism development in a remote region of Eastern Indonesia. It examines how tourism is intertwined with life in a non-western, marginal community and analyses tourism and sociocultural change, conflict, globalisation, poverty and powerlessness. Series: Tourism and Cultural Change. Num Pages: 296 pages, maps, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1FMN; GTF; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845410698
- ISBN
- 9781845410698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.02
€ 50.02
Paperback. This book is a comprehensive analysis of educational tours to Israel for Jewish youth, based on the author's empirical research. The tours are explored from multiple aspects including: history, education, population and comparison of sub-populations, ethnic and religious identity, adolescence, marketing, staff, organization and logistics. Series: Tourism and Cultural Change. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFSR1; KNSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845410841
- ISBN
- 9781845410841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.64
€ 49.64
Hardback. Series: Asian Anthropologies. Num Pages: 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; JFFN; JHM; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450199
- ISBN
- 9781845450199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.19
€ 156.19
Paperback. Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity shift the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. This collection focuses on one such sub-population, the elderly without children. Employing quantitative and qualitative methods, it aims to define and characterize the experience of ageing without children. Editor(s): Kreager, Philip; Schroder-Butterfill, Elisabeth. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; JFSP31; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 253 x 19. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450410
- ISBN
- 9781845450410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.47
€ 44.47
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450472
- ISBN
- 9781845450472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.58
€ 44.58
Hardback. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 8 illustrations, 1-2 maps, 38 tables, 27photos. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBTB; KNAT; KNBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451332
- ISBN
- 9781845451332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.86
€ 156.86
Paperback. Offers insights into how East Asians travelled in the early modern and modern periods, what they looked for, what they felt comfortable finding, and the ways in which they wrote up their impressions of these experiences. Editor(s): Fogel, Joshua A. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FP; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 243.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451523
- ISBN
- 9781845451523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.59
€ 43.59
Hardback. Explores the reality behind the statistics, balance sheets, and managerial prescriptions that are the focus of most studies of international mergers and acquisitions. This book reveals the dramas of identity that unfold as a consequence of the company's attempts to redefine the boundaries of the organizational collective. Num Pages: 176 pages, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1KBB; KCL; KJK; KJVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451943
- ISBN
- 9781845451943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.61
€ 155.61
Hardback. Addresses questions of how to deal with internal issues of social inequality and cultural diversity and, at the same time, how to build a shared civility among their different national, ethnic, religious and social groups. Editor(s): Al Haj, Majid; Mielke, Rosemarie. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FBH; JFF; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451950
- ISBN
- 9781845451950
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.83
€ 156.83
Hardback. Like other industrial nations, Japan is experiencing its own forms of, and problems with, internationalization and multiculturalism. This volume focuses on several aspects of this process and examines the immigrant minorities as well as their Japanese recipient communities. Editor(s): Graburn, Nelson H. Series: Asian Anthropologies. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452261
- ISBN
- 9781845452261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.65
€ 156.65
paperback. For eighteen years, Thailand's HIV/AIDS was routinely depicted as the world's fastest moving AIDS epidemic. This work takes a look at the development of AIDS and at the analyses. It concludes that the "problem" of Thai AIDS has been constructed in order to legitimate specific forms of gender and class-based interventions. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMT; JFFH2. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781845452339
- ISBN
- 9781845452339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.58
€ 44.58
Hardback. For more than a decade, West Germany denied Israel the commencement of official diplomatic relations. In a policy-reversal, however, Bonn eventually offered Jerusalem the exchange of ambassadors in 1965. This book interprets the government's change of heart as the result of grassroots intervention in high level politics. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 230 pages, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 1FBH; 3JJPG; JPS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452872
- ISBN
- 9781845452872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.96
€ 155.96
Hardback. Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. This book questions some major assumptions about the nexus between sugar production and colonial societies in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, especially in the second (post-1800) colonial era. Editor(s): Bosma, Ulbe; Guisti-Cordero, Juan A.; Knight, G. Roger. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTQ; KNAC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453169
- ISBN
- 9781845453169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.24
€ 156.24
Hardback. Examines the forces of globalization at different levels, as they manifest themselves and operate across cultural, cognitive and biographical dimensions of human life in the Pacific. This book offers answers through the integration of cultural and psychological methods. Series: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific. Num Pages: 350 pages, 40 ills, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1F; JFFS; JH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453275
- ISBN
- 9781845453275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.17
€ 168.17
Paperback. Indonesia is one of the world's newest democracies. Yet little is known to outsiders about this country, the home of the world's largest Muslim community. This book provides appraisals of the leading issues facing Indonesians as they seek to build a democratic nation that is tolerant of multicultural diversity and free from imperial domination. Editor(s): Day, Tony. Series: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis. Num Pages: 142 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HBJF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454050
- ISBN
- 9781845454050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.55
€ 20.55
Hardback. Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religious authority in the region.. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBL; JFSR2; MFKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 242 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454326
- ISBN
- 9781845454326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.76
€ 156.76
Hardback. Through an ethnography of the social and medical worlds of a community of Tibetan refugees in India, this book addresses two main questions: first, how has the prolonged displacement of Tibetan refugees affected concepts of health in the exile community? Second, how has exile changed traditional Tibetan medical practices? Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFD; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454579
- ISBN
- 9781845454579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.33
€ 155.33
Hardback. From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. This mysterious illness was given the name Gulf War SyndromeA" (GWS). Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBWS3; MBS; MMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455262
- ISBN
- 9781845455262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.36
€ 156.36
Hardback. Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China's immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world.. Series: Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture. Num Pages: 209 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455453
- ISBN
- 9781845455453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.41
€ 156.41
paperback. In a completely new approach to borders and border crossing, this volume suggests a re-conceptualization of the nation in Southeast Asia. Choosing an actor approach, the individual chapters in this volume capture the narratives of minorities, migrants and refugees who inhabit and cross borders as part of their everyday life. Editor(s): Horstmann, Alexander; Wadley, Reed L. Series: Asian Anthropologies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; JFFN; JHM; JPSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455910
- ISBN
- 9781845455910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.67
€ 44.67
Hardback. During recent years, attempts have been made to move beyond the Eurocentric perspective that characterized the social sciences, especially anthropology, for over 150 years. A debate on the anthropology of anthropologyA" was needed, one that would consider other forms of knowledge, modalities of writing, and political and intellectual practices. Editor(s): Nadjmabadi, Shahnaz R. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456269
- ISBN
- 9781845456269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.00
€ 157.00
Paperback. It is important to see China's activities in the Pacific Islands, not just in terms of a specific set of interests, but in the context of Beijing's recent efforts to develop a comprehensive and global foreign policy. China's policy towards Oceania is part of a much larger outreach to the developing world.. Editor(s): Wesley-Smith, Terence; Porter, Edgar. Series: Foundations of Asia Pacific Studies. Num Pages: 242 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1MK; JPS; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456320
- ISBN
- 9781845456320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.14
€ 44.14
Hardback. The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury items have engaged the work of historians, economists, social scientists, and international relations experts. Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel.. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; KNAT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456337
- ISBN
- 9781845456337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.81
€ 168.81