Now in its tenth edition, Comparative International Accounting by Nobes and Parker is renowned for its depth of discussion and comprehensive coverage of the international dimensions of financial accounting and reporting. It uncovers the conceptual and contextual foundations of t…
This text considers the effects of state socialism on seemingly mundane aspects of life. Taking as its premise the notion that material culture can help explain the experience of state socialism as lived by ordinary people, it provides a revealing window through which to examine…
This fascinating book explains the processes of suburbanization in the context of post-socialist societies transitioning from one system of socio-spatial order to another. Case studies of seven Central and Eastern Europe city regions illuminate growth patterns and key conditions…
This work examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Legacies of pre-communist rule turn out to play as much a role in accounting for differences as the institutional differences inco…
This work examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural and national identities in Europe. It considers the way in which language may sometimes reinforce national identity (as in England) while tending to subvert the nation-state (as in the U…
Om en rejse i det nykapitalistiske Østeuropa, fra Østersøens tomme strande over små maleriske slovakiske kurbade, videre over den endeløse ungarske puszta, Albaniens sværttilgængelige bjerge for til sidst at nå frem til Rumænien og Moldova ved Donaus delta
Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe. * Proposes a new theorization of global value c…
Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and …
