Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 21 results for “peter w preston”
Skip side bar filters

  • National Pasts in Europe and East Asia

    by Peter W. Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    With the rise of industrial capitalism in Europe and the related imposition of colonial rule in much of East Asia, both Europe and East Asia have intertwined histories that continue to shape their political thinking and political decision making. The contemporary interactions of the two regions – now once again major trading partners – will both depend upon and facilitate deeper understandings of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Politics of China–Hong Kong Relations

    Living with Distant Masters

    by Peter W. Preston ...
    In 1997 the British state relinquished control of Hong Kong. From that point an established prosperous community was faced with reordering its sense of itself and its links with the wider world around the authority of Beijing. This book traces the political relationship between Hong Kong and China, and sketches a number of possible future scenarios ranging from successful mutual understanding, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Logic of Chinese Politics

    Cores, Peripheries and Peaceful Rising

    by Sabrina C.Y. Luk, Peter W. Preston ...
    China's growth as a major international superpower means that it is now more important than ever to understand how its politics work. Rejecting familiar discussions of China cast in terms of traditional culture, contemporary economic power or shifting official ideologies, this forward thinking work instead analyses the historically contingent mix of agents, ideas and institutions that make up the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey

    A Legacy to the World

    by Shaun Regan, Julia Banister, Glynis Ridley, Chris Ewers, Alexander Hardie-Forsyth, Fraser Easton, Jennifer Preston Wilson, Melvyn New, Peter Budrin, Paul Goring, Pat Rogers ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but—unlike *Tristram Shandy—*to date it has not been the subject of a ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Singapore in the Global System

    Relationship, Structure and Change

    by Peter Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book tracks the phases of Singapore’s economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country’s future. Singapore has followed a distinctive historical development trajectory. It was one of a number of cities ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Writing the City

    Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem

    by Peter Preston, Paul Simpson-Housley ...
    `The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'.Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that of classic geographical descriptions which look at growth or decline, demographic patterns, traffic flows and economic potential: these empirically conceived models of urban geography fail to accommodate the crucial human aspect of city life.Located at the interface of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Jake and the Man-eating Picnic Basket

    by Peter Preston ...
    Jake Crabtree is an unwilling volunteer for his granddad’s inventions. They’re supposed to cure the twelve-year-old of his stammer, but more often than not he’s lucky to escape with all of his limbs intact.He has an accident at a local science fair when his secret formula spills onto his neighbour’s harmless picnic basket. This creates a creature that starts to abduct the villages of Little ... Read more

    $2.67 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Trends in Development Theory

    Essays in Development and Social Theory

    by Peter Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    The theme of this work, first published in 1985, is the exchange between issues of development and problems of social theory. They provide preliminary analysis of the multiplicity of social-theoretic arguments in development theory and their implications for social theory in general.The book will be of interest to all those interested in the contemporary ‘restructuring’ of social theory and to ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Theories of Development

    by Peter Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    Dr Preston’s book, first published in 1982, presents a critical history of development studies since the Second World War, linking the recent, neo-Marxist, debate with the whole tradition in the field, going back to the work of economists like Arthur Lewis.He identifies a series of ‘schools’ and evaluates their contribution, supplying in each case a careful analysis, informed by the sociology of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Rethinking Development

    Essays on Development and Southeast Asia

    by Peter Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1987, this volume stresses the importance of development studies for sociology, as P. W. Preston argues that this field of study is emerging from the technical social scientific ghetto back into the mainstream of the ‘classical tradition’ of social theorizing, represented by Marx, Weber and Durkheim.Preston discusses the position of development studies in relation to the wider ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Desert Mounted Corps: An Account of the Cavalry Operations in Palestine and Syria 1917 - 1918

    by Richard Martin Peter Preston ...
    When General Allenby arrived in Egypt in June 1917, and assumed command of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, British prestige in the East was at a very low ebb. The evacuation of Gallipoli in December 1915, followed by the fall of Kut el Amara four months later, and by our two unsuccessful attacks on Gaza in the spring of the following year, had invested the Turkish arms with a legend of ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary China

    The Dynamics of Change at the Start of the New Millennium

    Edited by Jurgen Haacke, Peter Preston ...
    With a large and growing economy and a leadership dedicated both to domestic reform and the further integration into international society and the world economy, China is facing and posing important challenges at the local, national, regional and wider international level. This book analyses the developmental trajectories of China up to and into the new millennium. Focusing on the substance and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD