Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South 9781608467143, 1608467147

Social Theories of Urban Violence in the Global South 9781351254700

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State and Status: The Rise of the State and Aristocratic Power in Western Europe 9780773564954

State and Status is an examination of the rise of the centralized state and its effect on the power of the aristocracy i

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Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South 9780367585181, 9781138323544

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Megacities: The politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global South 9781350221345, 9781848132962

For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid proces

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State and Status: The Rise of the State and Aristocratic Power in Western Europe [1 ed.] 9780773564954, 9780773512269

Arguing that states emerged in Western Europe as powerful political-geographical centres rather than nation-states or na

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Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power 9780300165838

A knowledgeable appreciation of a complex, vital South American giant, destined to be one of the world’s premier economi

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The Dynamics of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary South Asia: The State, Democracy and Social Movements 2020037655, 9780367470579, 9781003038528

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Utopian Movements, Enactments and Subjectivities among Youth in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives 9781000710885, 1000710882

Drawing on fine-grained ethnographies from Bissau, Chile, China, Egypt, Ecuador and Nepal, this volume explores how poli

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China's Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing's Alternative World Order 9781503630604

As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few

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The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865 9780691185484

A revisionist history of Boston and its three-hundred-year development as city- state that created the region of New Eng

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