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British Imperial Policy And Decolonization, 1938-64 - Volume 2: 1951-64

de A. J. Stockwell e Andrew Porter

171,59€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Current interest in Britain''s imperial past and the loss of her formal empire since World War II is substantial. This book, the second of a two-part study, brings together a collection of original and hitherto unpublished source material, throwing light on the approaches of those politicians, civil servants and expert advisers who were responsible for Britain''s changing relations with her colonies and the Commonwealth. Major themes touched on include the impact on the empire of the international upheavals of the 1950s, the place of colonies in Britain''s strategic defence planning, problems of colonial economic development, and relations with the USA.
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Modern India 1885-1947

de Sumit Sarkar

37,09€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 ''...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be the starting point for everyone doing any work, from sixth forms upwards, on modern India.'' D.A.Low
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Politics, Women And Well-Being - How Kerala Became ''A Model''

de Robin Jeffrey

325,29€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In 1990, Kerala on the southwestern coast has India's lowest infant mortality, longest life expectancy and highest female literacy. Women retained a circumscribed but influential position in social life. The result is an instructive analysis for students of politics, development policy and women's issues.
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Imagined Commonwealth - Cambridge Essays On Commonwealth And International Literature In English

118,59€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 This collection includes contributions from some of the major authors in the field. The critical essays have been chosen to open up possibilities, mark out boundaries and set objectives in the ever-expanding field of international literature in English. The writers themselves are the principal guides and resources for this enterprise. New literary and critical practices are derived from the problematic role of English as an international language and from its relations with other languages. Values of cultural difference and particularity are emphasised.
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Surrogates For The Sovereign - Constitutional Heads Of State In The Commonwealth

de David Butler

66,24€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A study of the office of the Constitutional Head of State in Westminster-style Commonwealth countries. In this book specialist writers look at each country separately, describing the variants in infrastructure and in local custom.
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Political Inheritance Of Pakistan

de D. A. Low

66,24€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Based on papers originally presented at a conference in Churchill College, Cambridge, this book discusses the pre-independence history of those areas of the South Asian sub-continent that territorially became the Pakistan of 1947. Titles in the series include "South Africa: A Modern History".
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Constitutional Heads And Political Crises - Commonwealth Episodes, 1945-85

de D. A. Low

52,99€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A selection of essays about the constitutional crises throughout the Commonwealth since the Second World War, from Australia, Ceylon, Pakistan, Nigeria, Fiji, India, Grenada, Malaysia and Canada, which examines, in particular, the role and involvement of the Governor-General.
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Commonwealth Secretariat And The Contemporary Commonwealth

de Margaret P. Doxey

59,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A review of the Commonwealth Secretariat's organization, resources and performance together with an exploration of the role of the Secretary-General and a discussion of the problems of financial stringency and political strain over South Africa. It is aimed at specialists and general readers.
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Governors And Settlers - Images Of Authority In The British Colonies, 1820-60

de M. Francis

118,59€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An exploration of the public and private beliefs of governors such as Sir Thomas Brisbane, Sir John Colbourne, Sir George Grey and Lord Elgin as they struggled to survive in colonial cultures which both defied and vilified their personal qualities.
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Politics, Women And Well-Being - How Kerala Became 'A Model'

de Robin Jeffrey

331,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In 1990, Kerala on the southwestern coast has India's lowest infant mortality, longest life expectancy and highest female literacy. Women retained a circumscribed but influential position in social life. The result is an instructive analysis for students of politics, development policy and women's issues.
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Developing The Third World - The Experience Of The Nineteen-Sixties

de Robinson

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 1971 volume selects some of the most important papers which were delivered during the 1960s in the Cambridge Conferences on Development, and presents them as a contribution to the discussion on how economic development could best be planned and advanced for the Third World. This book is a valuable contribution to making poor countries richer.
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Canada And The Transition To Commonwealth - British-Canadian Relations 1917â€“1926

de Philip G. Wigley

44,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book studies the relations between Britain and Canada from the end of the First World War to the Imperial Conference of 1926. It is concerned principally with the problems of imperial co-operation and consultation in foreign affairs and defence policy, and with the pressures developing out of these problems to reformulate the constitutional relations of Britain and her dominions.
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Mackinnon And East Africa 1878â€“1895 - A Study In The 'New Imperialism'

de John S. Galbraith

48,67€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Professor Galbraith's book considers this episode in British Imperial history, the factors involved and Mackinnon's part in it. The book considers the interaction of Mackinnon and the government from the 1870s when his first efforts in east Africa were frustrated by Salisbury to the liquidation of the company in the mid-1890s.
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The Making Of Modern Belize - Politics, Society And British Colonialism In Central America

de C. H. (University Of Waterloo, Ontario) Grant

75,71€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Belize (formerly British Honduras) is a residue of the British Empire and the last colony in the Americas. Like most colonies in this age of decolonisation Belize was willing to break the colonial ties and in fact achieved internal self-government in 1964.
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Toward 'Uhuru' In Tanzania - The Politics Of Participation

de G. Andrew Maguire

52,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In the belief that intensive study of selected local areas is an important development in scholarship on Africa, the author presents a micropolitical study of an important region of one of East Africa's Rew nations. Sukumaland, an area of Tanzania which contains one tenth of the country's population and its largest tribe, was chosen for the study.
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The Scramble For Southern Africa, 1877-1895 - The Politics Of Partition Reappraised

de D. M. Schreuder

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The Scramble for Southern Africa formed one of the most dramatic episodes in the more general European assault on Africa by the forces of the New Imperialism in the later nineteenth century. This book offers a fresh reappraisal of the complex sequence of events which surrounded the Partition of Africa south of the Zambesi in the years 1877â€"95.
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British Imperial Policy And Decolonization, 1938-64 - Volume 2: 1951-64

de A. J. Stockwell e Andrew Porter

175,73€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Current interest in Britain's imperial past and the loss of her formal empire since World War II is substantial.
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The Durham Report And British Policy - A Critical Essay

de Ged Martin

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In 1838 Lord Melbourne's Whig government in Britain sent the radical Lord Durham to Canada as Governor-General to deal with a colony in the aftermath of a rebellion.
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Imagined Commonwealth - Cambridge Essays On Commonwealth And International Literature In English

121,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 The critical essays have been chosen to open up possibilities, mark out boundaries and set objectives in the ever-expanding field of international literature in English. New literary and critical practices are derived from the problematic role of English as an international language and from its relations with other languages.
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Green Revolution? - Technology And Change In Rice-Growing Areas Of Tamil Nadu And Sri Lanka

de B.H. Farmer

52,99€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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British Imperial Policy And Decolonization 1938-64: Vol 1. 1938-1951

de A J Stockwell e A N Porter

62,26€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Commonwealth Migration - Flows And Policies

de T. E. Smith

50,34€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Britain And The Commonwealth Alliance, 1918-39

de R. F. Holland

52,99€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Modern India 1885-1947

de Sumit Sarkar

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 '...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be the starting point for everyone doing any work, from sixth forms upwards, on modern India.' D.A.Low
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