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  • Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences

    Immigrant Memoirs, Reform, and Belonging Across Early Twentieth-Century America

    by Martin Andersen Nexø, Myra Kelly, Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot, Margaret Wilson, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Finley Peter Dunne, Broughton Brandenburg, Mary Antin, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Peter A. Speek, George Fraser Black, Sui Sin Far, United States. Office of Education, Inc. Columbia Broadcasting System, John Robertson Henry, Council of Women for Home Missions, Home Missions Council, Eva Stern, Anzia Yezierska, Eustace Hale Ball, Stephen Graham, Emily P. Weaver, Thomas Ostenson Stine, J. P. MacLean, George T. Flom, Clara M. S. Lowe, Patrick Matthew, Scots New Zealand Land Company, F. S. Brereton, James Seton Cockburn, George A. Birmingham ...
    Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences surveys migration as both an intimate upheaval and a public force shaping modern societies. Across fiction, memoir, reportage, social investigation, educational materials, and historical reflection, the volume ranges from tales of arrival and labor to analyses of settlement, language, race, gender, and national belonging. Its ... Read more

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  • Operation Market Garden

    The Campaign for the Low Countries, Autumn 1944: Seventy Years On

    by John Buckley, Peter Preston-Hough ...
    Series series Wolverhampton Military Studies
    In September 1944 the Western Allies mounted an audacious attempt to seize a crossing over the Rhine into Germany in a bid to end the Second World War quickly. Yet despite the deployment of thousands of American, British and Polish airborne troops, in conjunction with the efforts of ground forces to link up with them, ultimately at Arnhem in the Netherlands, the plan failed spectacularly and the ... Read more

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  • Theories of Development

    by Peter Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    Dr Preston’s book, first published in 1982, presents a critical history of development studies since the Second World War, linking the recent, neo-Marxist, debate with the whole tradition in the field, going back to the work of economists like Arthur Lewis.He identifies a series of ‘schools’ and evaluates their contribution, supplying in each case a careful analysis, informed by the sociology of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Jake and the Man-eating Picnic Basket

    by Peter Preston ...
    Jake Crabtree is an unwilling volunteer for his granddad’s inventions. They’re supposed to cure the twelve-year-old of his stammer, but more often than not he’s lucky to escape with all of his limbs intact.He has an accident at a local science fair when his secret formula spills onto his neighbour’s harmless picnic basket. This creates a creature that starts to abduct the villages of Little ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Development

    Essays on Development and Southeast Asia

    by Peter Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1987, this volume stresses the importance of development studies for sociology, as P. W. Preston argues that this field of study is emerging from the technical social scientific ghetto back into the mainstream of the ‘classical tradition’ of social theorizing, represented by Marx, Weber and Durkheim.Preston discusses the position of development studies in relation to the wider ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Winds of the Night

    by Joan Sales, Paul Preston ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    The sequel to Joan Sales' great novel of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory, this follow-up takes a provocative look at post-war Catalonia through the eyes of a chaplain struggling with his faith in the aftermath of brutal destruction.Winds of the Night is the follow-up, published almost thirty years later, to Joan Sales's acclaimed masterwork of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory. It ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Writing the City

    Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem

    by Peter Preston, Paul Simpson-Housley ...
    `The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'.Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that of classic geographical descriptions which look at growth or decline, demographic patterns, traffic flows and economic potential: these empirically conceived models of urban geography fail to accommodate the crucial human aspect of city life.Located at the interface of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Singapore in the Global System

    Relationship, Structure and Change

    by Peter Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book tracks the phases of Singapore’s economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country’s future. Singapore has followed a distinctive historical development trajectory. It was one of a number of cities ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • New Trends in Development Theory

    Essays in Development and Social Theory

    by Peter Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    The theme of this work, first published in 1985, is the exchange between issues of development and problems of social theory. They provide preliminary analysis of the multiplicity of social-theoretic arguments in development theory and their implications for social theory in general.The book will be of interest to all those interested in the contemporary ‘restructuring’ of social theory and to ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • National Pasts in Europe and East Asia

    by Peter W. Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    With the rise of industrial capitalism in Europe and the related imposition of colonial rule in much of East Asia, both Europe and East Asia have intertwined histories that continue to shape their political thinking and political decision making. The contemporary interactions of the two regions – now once again major trading partners – will both depend upon and facilitate deeper understandings of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Politics of China–Hong Kong Relations

    Living with Distant Masters

    by Peter W. Preston ...
    In 1997 the British state relinquished control of Hong Kong. From that point an established prosperous community was faced with reordering its sense of itself and its links with the wider world around the authority of Beijing. This book traces the political relationship between Hong Kong and China, and sketches a number of possible future scenarios ranging from successful mutual understanding, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    A People Betrayed

    A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain

    by Paul Preston ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 15 min

    Whereas so many twentieth-century Spanish histories begin with Franco and the devastating Civil War, Paul Preston's magisterial work begins in the late nineteenth century with Spain's collapse as a global power, especially reflected in its humiliating defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and its loss of colonial territory.With astonishing detail, Preston later describes the ravages ... Read more

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