The Development Frontier

Author : Hinh T. Dinh
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821399896
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Development Frontier written by Hinh T. Dinh and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Development Frontier presents analytical reviews and case studies that show how selected countries have developed light manufacturing to create jobs and foster prosperity. The focus is on China, a current powerhouse in light manufacturing, but the volume also analyzes a selection of countries in Africa and Asia.

Author : P. T. Bauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674281035
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development Frontier written by P. T. Bauer and published by . This book was released on 1991-02-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frontier in American History written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frontier in American History is a collection of works related to the history of American colonization of Wild West. Turner expresses his views on how the idea of the frontier shaped the American being and characteristics. He writes how the frontier drove American history and why America is what it is today. Turner reflects on the past to illustrate his point by noting human fascination with the frontier and how expansion to the American West changed people's views on their culture. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ The Significance of the Frontier in American History_x000D_ The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay_x000D_ The Old West_x000D_ The Middle West_x000D_ The Ohio Valley in American History_x000D_ The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History_x000D_ The Problem of the West_x000D_ Dominant Forces in Western Life_x000D_ Contributions of the West to American Democracy_x000D_ Pioneer Ideals and the State University_x000D_ The West and American Ideals_x000D_ Social Forces in American History_x000D_ Middle Western Pioneer Democracy

Author : Péter Tamás Bauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development Frontier written by Péter Tamás Bauer and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bauer (emeritus, London School of Economics) describes and analyzes major features of the emergence of less developed countries from subsistence to exchange economies, and from their subsequent advance. The 17 essays focus on significant topics and issues that are neglected or treated inadequately or inappropriately in the literature on economic development. Six of the essays were written specifically for this volume, two are reprinted with only minor changes, and the remainder are substantially revised versions of previous publications. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Bradley J. Parker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081653411X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History written by Bradley J. Parker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a half century of attempts by social scientists to compare frontiers around the world, the study of these regions is still closely associated with the nineteenth-century American West and the work of Frederick Jackson Turner. As a result, the very concept of the frontier is bound up in Victorian notions of manifest destiny and rugged individualism. The frontier, it would seem, has been tamed. This book seeks to open a new debate about the processes of frontier history in a variety of cultural contexts, untaming the frontier as an analytic concept, and releasing it in a range of unfamiliar settings. Drawing on examples from over four millennia, it shows that, throughout history, societies have been formed and transformed in relation to their frontiers, and that no one historical case represents the normal or typical frontier pattern. The contributors—historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists—present numerous examples of the frontier as a shifting zone of innovation and recombination through which cultural materials from many sources have been unpredictably channeled and transformed. At the same time, they reveal recurring processes of frontier history that enable world-historical comparison: the emergence of the frontier in relation to a core area; the mutually structuring interactions between frontier and core; and the development of social exchange, merger, or conflict between previously separate populations brought together on the frontier. Any frontier situation has many dimensions, and each of the chapters highlights one or more of these, from the physical and ideological aspects of Egypt’s Nubian frontier to the military and cultural components of Inka outposts in Bolivia to the shifting agrarian, religious, and political boundaries in Bengal. They explore cases in which the centripetal forces at work in frontier zones have resulted in cultural hybridization or “creolization,” and in some instances show how satellite settlements on the frontiers of core polities themselves develop into new core polities. Each of the chapters suggests that frontiers are shaped in critical ways by topography, climate, vegetation, and the availability of water and other strategic resources, and most also consider cases of population shifts within or through a frontier zone. As these studies reveal, transnationalism in today’s world can best be understood as an extension of frontier processes that have developed over thousands of years. This book’s interdisciplinary perspective challenges readers to look beyond their own fields of interest to reconsider the true nature and meaning of frontiers.

Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874175196
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Frontier written by Walter Prescott Webb and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Frontier presents a new theory of the history of the Western World since 1492 when Columbus opened the frontier lands to a static European society.

Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199840342
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crabgrass Frontier written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.

Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802191096
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eternal Frontier written by Tim Flannery and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World). Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago to the present day (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Flannery describes the development of North America’s deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the migrations of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story spans the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Native Americans. It continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other consequences of frontier settlement and the industrial development of the United States. This is science writing at its very best—both an engrossing narrative and a scholarly trove of information that “will forever change your perspective on the North American continent” (The New York Review of Books).

Author : Péter Tamás Bauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780745010373
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tribute to Peter Bauer written by Péter Tamás Bauer and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, the Endless Frontier written by United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This influential report described science as "a largely unexplored hinterland" that would provide the "essential key" to the economic prosperity of the post World War II years.