According to Nehru, the transition from a backward agricultural society to a modern industrialized society was the only road for India to progress. So, for the past few decades, India has focused its transitional development around movement away from a state-controlled economy toward that of a...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Market & Economic Historiography of Tokugawa Japan -- State Formation and the 17th & 18th Century Economy -- Economic Change...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Contributors -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development in West African worlds -- 2 Regional...

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Kerala â Behind the Illusions and Realities -- 2 Achievements and Failures of Kerala Model of Development -- 3...

Challenges and prospects for change in Latin America : a foresight perspective / Ronaldo Munck -- Whither Latin america : outcomes of the progressive cycle / Claudio Katz -- Extractivism : tendencies and consequences / Eduardo Gudynas -- The social economy in Latin America : alter- or...

This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...

Introduction -- Development dilemmas -- The post-apartheid development experience -- Evolution of policy in post-apartheid South Africa -- Nation building -- Social and economic transformation : policies and prospects -- Conclusion: towards an inclusive society

"Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. Using local-level studies and the idea of co-production, it suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic...