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  • Liberalism

    by Jonathan Parry ...
    Series series Short Histories
    Jonathan Parry presents a history of Liberalism that is organized around themes in British Liberal politics since the early nineteenth century. In the first half of the book, he shows how the Liberal Party shaped national politics between 1830 and 1914 by conducting a series of campaigns against what it saw as over-dominant interest groups in British and Irish political, economic and religious ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Classes of Labour

    Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town

    by Jonathan Parry ...
    Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Promised Lands

    The British and the Ottoman Middle East

    by Jonathan Parry ...
    A major history of the British Empire’s early involvement in the Middle EastNapoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the British Empire to try to secure the two routes that a European might use to reach the subcontinent—through Egypt and the Red Sea, and through Baghdad and the Persian Gulf. Promised Lands is a panoramic history ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention

    An Introduction

    by Jonathan Parry ...
    Series series The Ethics of ...
    Few topics generate as much controversy and debate as armed humanitarian intervention. Military force involves death and destruction, as well as interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs. But, crucially, non-intervention is also controversial. When confronted with humanitarian crises abroad, many feel that outsiders are not only justified in using force to halt the abuses, but that they ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Benjamin Disraeli

    by Jonathan Parry ...
    Series series Very Interesting People
    Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Questions of Anthropology

    Edited by Rita Astuti, Jonathan Parry, Charles Stafford ...
    Series series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Persistence of Poverty in India

    Edited by Nandini Gooptu, Jonathan Parry ...
    What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem. In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume points out that in order to understand poverty one must take into ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism

    Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

    Edited by Chris Hann, Jonathan Parry ...
    Series Book 4 - Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
    Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim ... Read more

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  • A Contest for Supremacy

    China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia

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  • For and against a united Ireland

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