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Provides a historical perspective for understanding the exponential growth of casinos in the United States since 1990, by telling the story of Atlantic City, New Jersey since the 1970s. This work uses oral history to focus on the human stories of the region in addition to the broader story of economic and social impacts.

Based on extensive fieldwork, this volume offers alternatives perspectives on identity formations of subaltern indigenous and marginalised communities in India.

This anthology brings together creative and critical responses to the partition of India within and across borders. The narratives examine the complexities and experiences of a bruised nation, highlighting how the barbed wires within and across boundaries haunt its social, psychological, religious and political consciousness.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in north India, this book examines the gendered imagery proffered by Jainism, analyses the institutional framework of female mendicancy, and listens closely to the voice of the nuns to offer a new understanding of why and how women are drawn towards renunciation.

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets, how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-siècle and modernist lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these challenges and identifies three key strategies: the reconfiguring of the muse as a contemporary instead ...

At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. All the traders examined in this study are outsiders: an English Catholic in Antwerp, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in London and Amsterdam and French Huguenots in Lisbon.

This study is the first in a decade to provide an overview of banking in Brazil. It is argued that the big three federal banks have long provided essential policy alternatives and, since the liberalization of the industry in the 1990s, have realized competitive advantages over private and foreign banks.

This book contends that despite the divergent ideologies that inspire the Naxalite movement and Hindu extremism in India, it is possible to compare the two dissimilar violent movements and provides compelling arguments to do so, in drawing from extensive fieldwork across Jharkhand, Bihar, and participants in the 2002 riots in Gujarat.

This book analyses the adverse effects of globalisation and liberalisation ¿ manifest in the increased financialisation of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis ¿ on the labour force in different countries, especially the developing ones. It also critically re-assesses the role of informal sector in providing employment, and the potential of trade unions in protecting workers¿ interests.

This book provides fresh insights into the theory and policy of regional and multilateral trade from the perspective of developing countries. It discusses trade, investment, poverty, gender and legal dimensions withn this framework.

The papers in this edited volume discuss key elements of monetarism, including coin denominations, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys.

Drawn from intensive ethnographic fieldwork in southern Orissa, in eastern India, the book shows how the performance of rituals influences the understanding that Hindu women form of their own selves, their sense of femininity, identity as well as their role and position in the lived-in world, and vice versa.

Addresses the financing of the American-Mexican War of 1846-48. This study argues that the successful financing of the American-Mexican War had a long-term beneficial effect on American financial institutions and markets.

Running counter to the general decline of technological industries in post-Victorian Britain, optical munitions provides an important, previously overlooked, study into the business of manufacturing.

Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, this book highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period of the kind that would one day lead to civil war.

This collection of essays looks at issues of health and citizenship in Europe across two centuries. Contributors examine the extent to which the state can interfere with the private lives of its citizens, the role of individual responsibility and if any boundary occurs in terms of what the state can realistically provide.

This book provides an ecosystem perspective in addressing water resource management issues in the South Asian region. Comprising new theories, research and case studies, it would help those interested in managing water resources in a sustainable manner as defined under the concept of integrated water resources management.

Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, Second Edition, shows organizations how to lead their key clients into lasting, profitable, high-value relationships. Building on the powerful, tested principles of knowledge-based client relationships, Ross Dawson provides clear and extremely practical approaches for all professional and knowledge-based firms on how to create unique value for both clients and themselves.Detailed case studies ac...

The book expounds an original social theory of media by positing four concepts ¿ citizenship, public knowledge, criticality and power ¿ as central to an understanding and evaluation of contemporary journalistic practice, ownership patterns and content, while framing the role and relationship of television news with regard to democracy and develo

This book critically examines the emerging deployments of citizen participation in neoliberal urban governance in India. Through case studies across sectors and cities, it discusses how these new formats of participation have embedded market-oriented reforms, promoted financialisation of cities, refashioned urban citizenship and deepened the fra