Housing

Under pressure: essays on urban housing

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"Under Pressure is about instigation and design in urban housing. Urban housing is a bellwether for economic, social, and political change. It varies widely in quality, typology, and audience and lies between the formal systems of urban infrastructure and the informal systems of…

Under pressure: essays on urban housing

0 Type: Book

"Under Pressure is about instigation and design in urban housing. Urban housing is a bellwether for economic, social, and political change. It varies widely in quality, typology, and audience and lies between the formal systems of urban infrastructure and the informal systems of…

Unmaking China's development: the function and credibility of institutions

by Ho, Peter

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"Peter Ho argues that understanding China's economy necessitates an analytical refocusing from Form to Function, detached from normative assumptions about institutional appearance and developing instead a "Credibility Thesis". In this reading, once institutions endogenously emer…

Unmaking China's development: the function and credibility of institutions

by Ho, Peter

0 Type: Book

"Peter Ho argues that understanding China's economy necessitates an analytical refocusing from Form to Function, detached from normative assumptions about institutional appearance and developing instead a "Credibility Thesis". In this reading, once institutions endogenously emer…

Unmaking China's development: the function and credibility of institutions

by Ho, Peter

0 Type: Book

Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions in some developing countries lead to sustained socio-economic crisis, while others experience explosive growth despite 'persisting' informal, insecure and rent-seeking institutional arrangements? A key to solving this enigma li…

Unmaking China's development: the function and credibility of institutions

by Ho, Peter

0 Type: Book

"Peter Ho argues that understanding China's economy necessitates an analytical refocusing from Form to Function, detached from normative assumptions about institutional appearance and developing instead a "Credibility Thesis". In this reading, once institutions endogenously emer…

Unmaking China's development: the function and credibility of institutions

by Ho, Peter

0 Type: Book

"Peter Ho argues that understanding China's economy necessitates an analytical refocusing from Form to Function, detached from normative assumptions about institutional appearance and developing instead a "Credibility Thesis". In this reading, once institutions endogenously emer…

Intercultural transfers and the making of the modern world, 1800-2000: sources and contexts

by Adam, Thomas

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This introduction and collection of sources for courses on world and transnational history, focuses on the interconnected and interrelated nature of societies and cultures from 1800 onwards. Case studies trace transnational connections through the examples of cooperatives, housi…

Intercultural transfers and the making of the modern world, 1800-2000: sources and contexts

by Adam, Thomas

0 Type: Book

For far too long, the history of the modern era has been written as a history of isolated nation states. This book which presents both interpretation and primary source documents challenges a nation-centred account, exploring the interconnected and interrelated nature of societi…

Marriage, household and home in modern Russia: from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

by Engel, Barbara Alpern

fromThe Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series

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"Barbara Alpern Engel's Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia is the first book to explore the intricacies of domestic life in Russia across the modern period. Surveying the period from 1700 right up to the present day, the book explores the marital and domestic arrangem…

Marriage, household and home in modern Russia: from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

by Engel, Barbara Alpern

fromThe Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series

0 Type: Book

"Barbara Alpern Engel's Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia is the first book to explore the intricacies of domestic life in Russia across the modern period. Surveying the period from 1700 right up to the present day, the book explores the marital and domestic arrangem…

Marriage, household and home in modern Russia: from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

by Engel, Barbara Alpern

fromBloomsbury history of modern Russia series

0 Type: Book

"Barbara Alpern Engel's Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia is the first book to explore the intricacies of domestic life in Russia across the modern period. Surveying the period from 1700 right up to the present day, the book explores the marital and domestic arrangem…

Marriage, household, and home in modern Russia: from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

by Engel, Barbara Alpern

fromBloomsbury history of modern Russia series

0 Type: Book

"Barbara Alpern Engel's Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia is the first book to explore the intricacies of domestic life in Russia across the modern period. Surveying the period from 1700 right up to the present day, the book explores the marital and domestic arrangem…