Author: Ivan Szelenyi
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: societies, socialist, routledge, studies, transition, communist, post, land, rural, political, economy, privatizing
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1998-06-26
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0415182042
ISBN-13: 9780415182041
This book offers an overview of reforms in state socialist agrarian systems during the 1970s and 1980s in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This experience is contrasted to reforms in China, Vietnam and Cuba.
Authors:Martin Kohli, Alison Woodward,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: european, societies, studies, esa, routledge, inclusions, exclusions
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-10-12
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 041526023X
ISBN-13: 9780415260237
European social development over the last century has been characterized by an increasing inclusiveness of people into the ever-larger collectives of the nation state, the European Union and categories of welfare entitlement. Yet recent empirical data suggests that income gaps are growing and that within the physical borders of Europe there is a greater cultural and ethnic heterogeneity than ever before. Effectively, many of the processes of inclusion are accompanied by exclusion and the creation of new borders, identities and rights. Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies features e
Author: Jane G. Landers
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: slave, societies, post, cultures, studies, americas, free, odds, blacks
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0714647101
ISBN-13: 9780714647104
The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum
Authors:Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: social, societies, artificial, simulated, organizations, systems, beliefs, reputation, order, multiagent
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2002-10-31
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 1402071868
ISBN-13: 9781402071867
Reputation In Artificial Societies discusses the role of reputation in the achievement of social order. The book proposes that reputation is an agent property that results from transmission of beliefs about how the agents are evaluated with regard to a socially desirable conduct. This desirable conduct represents one or another of the solutions to the problem of social order and may consist of cooperation or altruism, reciprocity, or norm obedience. Reputation In Artificial Societies distinguishes between image (direct evaluation of others) and reputation (propagating metabelief, i
Author: Marion J., Jr. Levy
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: modernied, societies, structure, non, volume, aspects, moderniation, social
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1560008938
ISBN-13: 9781560008934
Authors:Luis Berga, J.M. Buil, E. Bofill, J.C. De Cea, J.A
Publisher: Taylor & Franci
Keywords: dams, societies, century, barcelona, spain, june, icold, proceedings, reservoirs, environment, international, symposium
Number of Pages: 1412
Published: 2006-05-22
List price: $279.95
ISBN-10: 0415404231
ISBN-13: 9780415404235
Water resources stored by dams and reservoirs play an essential role in water resource management, hydropower and flood control. Where there is an extensive network of dam infrastructures, dams have made a major contribution to economic and social development, providing considerable storage capacity per capita. However, dams and reservoirs may also have an important social and environmental impact, and should be studied within the framework of integrated water resource management and sustainable development. Dams and Reservoirs, Societies and Environment in the 21st Century presents the latest
Author: Kenneth D. McRae
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Pre
Keywords: conflict, multilingual, societies, compromise, douglas, kenneth, mcrae, finland
Number of Pages: 429
Published: 1997-10-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0889202834
ISBN-13: 9780889202832
Conflict and Compromise, Volume 3: Finland examines historical and developmental patterns during the Swedish, Russian and post-independence periods of Finland’s history. McRae outlines Finland’s changing social structures, showing how the language groups have evolved within these structures in the twentieth century. He compares how Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking citizens perceive themselves and other language groups, as well as the similarities and differences in their views on political and social issues. Further, the book describes in detail the constitutional and institut
