The Wild East

Author : Barbara Harriss-White
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787353249
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild East written by Barbara Harriss-White and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour. The 11 case studies, based across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, explore how state regulative law is often ignored and/or selectively manipulated. The emerging collective narrative shows the workings of regulated criminal economic systems where criminal formations, politicians, police, judges and bureaucrats are deeply intertwined. By pioneering the field-study of the politicisation of economic crime, and disrupting the wider literature on South Asia’s informal economy, The Wild East aims to influence future research agendas through its case for the study of mafia-enterprises and their engagement with governance in South Asia and outside. Its empirical and theoretical contribution to debates about economic crimes in democratic regimes will be of critical value to researchers in Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Comparative Politics, Political Science and International Relations, Criminologists and Development Studies, as well as to those inside and outside academia interested in current affairs and the relationship between crime, politics and mafia enterprises.

Author : Margaret Lynn Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813020938
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild East written by Margaret Lynn Brown and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the social, political and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the 19th and 20th centuries. Although this national park is often portrayed as a triumph of wilderness preservation, Margaret Lynn Brown concludes that it is actually a recreated wilderness.

Author : Ben Shepherd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043553
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War in the Wild East written by Ben Shepherd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nazi eyes, the Soviet Union was the "wild east," a savage region ripe for exploitation, its subhuman inhabitants destined for extermination or helotry. An especially brutal dimension of the German army's eastern war was its anti-partisan campaign. This conflict brought death and destruction to thousands of Soviet civilians, and has been held as a prime example of ordinary German soldiers participating in the Nazi regime's annihilation policies. Ben Shepherd enters the heated debate over the wartime behavior of the Wehrmacht in a detailed study of the motivation and conduct of its anti-partisan campaign in the Soviet Union. He investigates how anti-partisan warfare was conducted, not by the generals, but by the far more numerous, average Germans serving as officers in the field. What shaped their behavior was more complex than Nazi ideology alone. The influence of German society, as well as of party and army, together with officers' grueling yet diverse experience of their environment and enemy, made them perceive the anti-partisan war in varied ways. Reactions ranged from extreme brutality to relative restraint; some sought less to terrorize the native population than to try to win it over. The emerging picture does not dilute the suffering the Wehrmacht's eastern war inflicted. It shows, however, that properly judging ordinary Germans' role in that war is more complicated than is indicated by either wholesale condemnation or wholesale exoneration. This valuable study offers a nuanced discussion of the diversity of behaviors within the German army, as well as providing a compelling exploration of the war and counterinsurgency operations on the eastern front.

Author : Jill Lawless
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459645783
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild East written by Jill Lawless and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, the name Mongolia conjures up exotic images of wild horsemen, endless grasslands, and nomads - a timeless and mysterious land that is also, in many ways, one that time forgot. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongols' empire stretched across Asia and into the heart of Europe. But over the centuries Mongolia disappeared from the world's consciousness, overshadowed and dominated by its huge neighbours - first China, which ruled Mongolia for centuries, then Russia, which transformed the feudal nation into the world's second communist state. Jill Lawless arrived in Mongolia in the late 1990s to find a country waking from centuries of isolation, at once rediscovering its heritage as a nomadic and Buddhist society and simultaneously discovering the western world. The result is a land of fascinating, bewildering contrasts: a vast country where nomadic herders graze their sheep and yaks on the steppe, it also has one of the world's highest literacy levels and a burgeoning high - tech scene. While trendy teenagers rollerblade amid the Soviet apartment blocks of Ulaanbaatar and dance to the latest pop music in nightclubs, and the rich drive Mercedes and surf the Internet, more than half the population still lives in felt tents, scratching out a living in one of the world's harshest landscapes. Mongolia, it can be argued, is the archetypal 21st - century nation, a country waking from a tumultuous 20th century in which it was wrenched from feudalism to communism to capitalism, searching for its place in the new millennium. This is a funny and revealing portrait of a beautiful, troubled country whose fate holds lessons for all of us.

Author : Joann Sfar
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781596432109
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Klezmer, Collector's Edition written by Joann Sfar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic novel in which nomadic Jewish musicians meet, clash, fall in love and make music at the birth of klezmer.

Author : Bobby Chinn
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764161490
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild, Wild East written by Bobby Chinn and published by B.E.S. Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers recipes and describes the ingredients and preparation of authentic Vietnamese food, with stories about every dish and tales of unusual ingredients.

Author : April De Angelis
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571318738
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild East written by April De Angelis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank's got the interview; it's his big break. He just has to convince two formidable women from the corporation and he'll have his chance to get back to Russia. But somehow, history is working against them all.Wild East premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in February 2005.

Author : Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617035963
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baba Yaga written by Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful illustrated collection of fairy tales about the most iconic and active of Russian magical characters

Author : Sebastian Strangio
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300234031
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Dragon's Shadow written by Sebastian Strangio and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacted by its claims over the South China Sea. All dwell in the lengthening shadow of its influence: economic, political, military, and cultural. As China seeks to restore its former status as Asia's preeminent power, the countries of Southeast Asia face an increasingly stark choice: flourish within Beijing's orbit or languish outside of it. Meanwhile, as rival powers including the United States take concerted action to curb Chinese ambitions, the region has emerged as an arena of heated strategic competition. Drawing on more than a decade of on-the-ground experience, Sebastian Strangio explores the impacts of China's rise on Southeast Asia, the varied ways in which the countries of the region are responding, and what it might mean for the future balance of power in the Indo-Pacific.

Author : Virginia M. Wright
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 0892729473
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild Blueberry Book written by Virginia M. Wright and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commercially harvested only in Maine and parts of Canada, wild blueberries are prized for their intense flavor and color. The Wild Blueberry Book follows the story of these luscious berries as they make their way from the barrens to your table, with some stops along the way for pie-eating contests, baking competitions, and even an annual musical celebrating the culture that has grown up around Maine’s official berry. You’ll meet growers, rakers, beekeepers, processors, winemakers, blueberry queens, and some of the food scientists who are unlocking the secrets behind blueberries’ amazing health benefi ts. Recipes, too!