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Télécharger le livre :  Land, Labour, and Agrarian Change in Nepal's Tarai-Madhesh
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Land, Labour, and Agrarian Change in Nepal's Tarai-Madhesh


Fraser Sugden


This book offers a historically grounded and multi-scalar analysis of agrarian change in Nepal's far-eastern Tarai. It shows how this region has since the 1700s evolved from a forested frontier home to relatively autonomous Adivasi (indigenous) cultivators, to a feudal...

Parution : 2025-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Sustainable Development and the Environment in Southeast Asia
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Sustainable Development and the Environment in Southeast Asia


Pamela D. Mcelwee


The rapid economic development experienced by Southeast Asia has come at the cost of considerable environmental degradation, including deforestation and land degradation, biodiversity loss, water and ocean pollution, rising greenhouse gas emissions, and increasing...

Parution : 2025-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Elusive Democracy
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Elusive Democracy


Michael A. Collins


Today, India is widely celebrated as the world's largest democracy. However, not all groups experience India's political institutions the same way. This book draws on extensive interviews with longtime Dalit (ex-Untouchable) activists and original archives of party...

Parution : 2025-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Occupier and Occupied
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Occupier and Occupied


Chloe Skinner


Working from the premise that gender and violence are cyclically related, masculinities' connection to power and violence are frequently simplistically assumed. Yet, amid ongoing colonisation and military occupation, there are other more complex dynamics simultaneously...

Parution : 2025-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  How Not to Die (Too Soon)
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How Not to Die (Too Soon)


Devi Sridhar


‘This is the standout book on how to live longer’ Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People'In a world rapidly taking leave of its senses, Devi Sridhar is a crucial voice of reason, mustering empirical evidence and powerful argument to make an essential case....

Parution : 2025-06-12
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia
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Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia


Diana S. Kim


This Element explores the significance of the Japanese wartime empire's occupation of Southeast Asia during World War Two for understanding the region's colonial legacies. It conceptualizes the occupation as a critical juncture that mediated the survival of American and...

Parution : 2025-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rule of Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran
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The Rule of Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran


Hadi Enayat , Mirjam Künkler


After Iran's 1979 Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini denounced the secular legal system of the Pahlavis and pledged his commitment to distinctly Islamic conceptions of law and justice: the application of both the shari?a and the rule of law (hakemiyat-e qanun) became major...

Parution : 2025-04-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Japan's New Industrial Policy
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Japan's New Industrial Policy


Gregory W. Noble


Once hailed for implementing an industrial policy so effective that it transformed Japan into a model 'developmental state,' from the 1980s Japan steadily liberalized its economy and Japanese firms increasingly shifted production abroad via outward foreign direct...

Parution : 2025-04-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Through the India-China Border
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Through the India-China Border


Lisa Lindkvist Zhang , Prem Poddar


Through the India-China Border mobilizes rarely used documentary material from British, Chinese and Indian archives to shed new light on our understanding of the 'Tibet Question' in China-India relations. Focused on the Himalayan border town of Kalimpong from the 1920s...

Parution : 2025-01-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Polluted Politics
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Polluted Politics


John-Michael Davis , Yaakov Garb


This book describes the politically charged afterlife of Israeli electronics gathered by and processed in a cluster of rural Palestinian villages that has emerged as an informal regional e-waste hub. As with many such hubs throughout the global South, rudimentary...

Parution : 2024-12-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Refining the Common Good
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Refining the Common Good


Miriam R. Lowi


How has Islam as a set of beliefs and practices shaped the allocation of oil revenues in Arab Gulf monarchies? In turn, how has oil wealth impacted the role of Islamic doctrine in politics? Refining the Common Good explores the relationship between Islamic norms and...

Parution : 2024-11-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Sovereign Aspirations
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Performing Sovereign Aspirations


Bart Klem


In a society that experiences secessionist conflict, many things are not what they seem. This book adopts a performative perspective to understand the peculiar institutional landscape the ensued around the Tamil separatist conflict in Sri Lanka, both during and after...

Parution : 2024-11-21
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Shadow of the Global North
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In the Shadow of the Global North


J. Siguru Wahutu


In the Shadow of the Global North unpacks the historical, cultural, and institutional forces that organize and circulate journalistic narratives in Africa to show that something complex is unfolding in the postcolonial context of global journalistic landscapes,...

Parution : 2024-11-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Tunisian Politics in France
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Tunisian Politics in France


Mathilde Zederman


What does it mean to oppose or support an authoritarian regime from afar? During the years of Ben Ali's dictatorship in Tunisia between 1987 and 2011, diaspora activism played a key role in the developments of post-independence Tunisian politics. Centring this study on...

Parution : 2024-11-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Legalizing the Revolution
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Legalizing the Revolution


Sandipto Dasgupta


Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an institutional form to those ideas. Through an original account of India's constitution making, Legalizing the Revolution explores...

Parution : 2024-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Islamic Welfare State
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The Islamic Welfare State


Christopher Candland


The Islamic Welfare State explains the relationship between government legitimacy, everyday security, and lived Islam in Pakistan—a major Muslim-majority country. Its humanitarian spirit makes Islam a compelling, community-strengthening faith that motivates people to...

Parution : 2024-07-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Nund Rishi
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Nund Rishi


Abir Bazaz


Nund Rishi (1378–1440) is considered one of the most important Sufi poets from Kashmir. He is revered as the 'flag-bearer of Kashmir' ('Alamdar-e Kashmir), and his poems draw upon the hyperlocal imagery of the Kashmiri literary universe. Despite his popular status as a...

Parution : 2024-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Assault on the State
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The Assault on the State


Stephen E. Hanson , Jeffrey S. Kopstein


What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are...

Parution : 2024-06-10
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Thailand
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Thailand


Prajak Kongkirati


This Element aims to provide an overview of Thai politics with an up-to-date discussion of the characteristics of political regimes, political economy, and identity and mobilization that are grounded in historical analysis stretching back to the formation of the modern...

Parution : 2024-05-30
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Télécharger le livre :  UN Mediators in Syria
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UN Mediators in Syria


Fadi Nicholas Nassar


Since 2011, the conflict in Syria has been one of the most catastrophic conflicts of our time and a dark stain on the peacemaking abilities of the United Nations (UN). At the heart of this book is a simple but critical question – what do UN mediators tasked with the...

Parution : 2024-05-23
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