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Focusing on key figures in the business and political life of the city. Howard Spodek explores three important eras in the modern history of Ahmedabad and of India as a whole: the Gandhian independence movement; the early national period of industrial development and Westernizat…
International migration has emerged in the last decade as one of the world' s most controversial and pressing issues. This thought-provoking textbook offers the reader a more nuanced and extensive understanding of the complex economic, political, cultural, and moral concerns tha…
The U.S. is facing a litany of problems from the economy to the environment to education. The author argues the country is looking to Baby Boomers to solve the problems they helped cause.
The U.S. experiences a major crisis about every eighty years, and the last big crisis started more than eighty years ago. If history is any indicator, argues author Tom Osenton, we are in the very early stages of the next major crisis-one that could make the Great Depression see…
"The Caucasian Tiger explains the factors underlying Armenia's stellar economic growth record, which has led to the country's emergence as a pre-eminent reformer among the former Soviet republics, and provides advice on policies that will entrench growth over the next decade. Th…
This book is intended to explain the factors underlying the stellar growth record that has led to Armenia's emergence as the Caucasian Tiger and to provide policy advice to the Armenian authorities to ensure the continuation of this growth. The book is presented in two parts, wi…
"Reviewers hailed The Fate of Africa as one of decade's most important works on Africa when it was first published. Now author Martin Meredith has revised this classic history to incorporate important recent developments, including the Darfur crisis in Sudan, Robert Mugabe's con…
Presents a narrative of the last fifty years of African history, analyzing the factors which account for the political chaos, financial troubles, and civil wars which prevail in many African countries today.