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Ancient Rights and Future Comfort: Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 and British Rule in India (1997)
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Robb, P. (1997). Ancient Rights and Future Comfort: Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 and British Rule in India. Curzon. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315026909-16

Conditions in India, and the colonial impact upon them, have been a ground base to the main themes of the previous chapters. They now must make their own contribution, by means of a consideration of the history of agrarian structure in Bihar from the... Read More about Ancient Rights and Future Comfort: Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 and British Rule in India.

Teach Yourself Korean (1997)
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Yeon, J., & Vincent, M. (1997). Teach Yourself Korean. Hodder and Stoughton

Languages of Dress in the Middle East (1997)
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Lindisfarne-Tapper, N., & Ingham, B. (Eds.). (1997). Languages of Dress in the Middle East. Curzon Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315027043

Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnog... Read More about Languages of Dress in the Middle East.

Class, State and Agricultural Productivity in Egypt (1997)
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Dyer, G. (1997). Class, State and Agricultural Productivity in Egypt. Frank Cass. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315036434

The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is accepted as a "stylized fact" of agriculture in developing countries. This study uses Egyptian fieldwork data to examine factors creating this relationship, and the impact of economic and... Read More about Class, State and Agricultural Productivity in Egypt.

The Political Economy of South Africa: From Minerals-Energy Complex to Industrialisation (1997)
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Fine, B. (1997). The Political Economy of South Africa: From Minerals-Energy Complex to Industrialisation. Hurst and Co. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429496004

Democratization in South Africa has been accompanied by continuing and even deepening economic inequalities. Rather than proposing a blueprint for a more equable economic system, this book presents the results and implications of wide-ranging researc... Read More about The Political Economy of South Africa: From Minerals-Energy Complex to Industrialisation.

Market and Institutional Regulation in Chinese Industrialisation, 1978-1994 (1997)
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Lo, D. (1997). Market and Institutional Regulation in Chinese Industrialisation, 1978-1994. Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379459

There is now a vast and still rapidly expanding literature of scholarly studies on the Chinese experience of economic growth and systemic transformation over the past 16 years. By and large, most of the studies tend to conceptualize the experience as... Read More about Market and Institutional Regulation in Chinese Industrialisation, 1978-1994.