`Whither regional studies?`, Pike, Andy

Автор: Christoph Baumer
Название: History of the Caucasus: Volume 2: In the Shadow of Great Powers
ISBN: 0755636287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780755636280
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In the Shadow of Great Powers is the second volume of Christoph Baumer’s History of the Caucasus. It covers the period from the Seljuk domination of the Southern Caucasus around 1050 CE to the present day. After the Kingdom of Georgia’s golden age of independent power and cultural blossoming in the 12th and early 13th centuries, the Caucasus was overrun by the Mongols and soon disintegrated into innumerable smaller kingdoms, principalities and khanates. At the same time, an Armenian kingdom in exile maintained a precarious independence in Cilicia, today’s southern Turkey, by applying a three-way diplomatic policy balanced between the Mongol Il-Khanate, the Crusader states and, to a lesser degree, the Mameluke Empire. Then followed four centuries during which the highly fragmented polities of the North and South Caucasus became political pawns of the regional great powers, above all the Ottomans, Iran and Russia. In the wake of World War I the South Caucasus enjoyed a short-lived independence whereas its northern neighbours were engulfed by the Russian civil wars. But by 1921 the Soviet Union had re-established Russian dominance over the whole region and, from a Western perspective, the region ‘disappeared’ behind the Iron Curtain. Nevertheless, the Caucasian nations kept their pronounced identities even under Soviet rule, giving rise at the dissolution of the Soviet Union to a number of internecine conflicts. Whereas the Russian Federation managed to maintain its supremacy over the North Caucasus – albeit at the cost of bloody wars and insurrections – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia succeeded in more or less gaining control over their destiny. Of these three republics, only Azerbaijan secured a wide-ranging independence thanks to its fossil fuel resources. Following Russian interference, Georgia lost control over two of its provinces while Armenia remains dependent on Russian support in the face of its notoriously antagonistic relations with neighbouring Azerbaijan and Turkey over the unresolved issue of Karabakh. In the Shadow of Great Powers includes some 200 full-colour images and maps which further bring the turbulent history of this region to light.

Автор: Christoph Baumer
Название: History of the Caucasus: Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires
ISBN: 1788310071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788310079
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: “Magnificent [and] wondrous.” The Spectator "Rich and illuminating." Literary Review "Phenomenally accurate." History Today "Stunning." The Morning Star "Sweeping." The New European "A wonderful book." Current World Archaeology "In a class of its own." The Caspian Post A landscape of high mountains and narrow valleys stretching from the Black to the Caspian Seas, the Caucasus region has been home to human populations for nearly 2 million years. In this richly illustrated 2-volume series, historian and explorer Christoph Baumer tells the story of the region’s history through to the present day. It is a story of encounters between many different peoples, from Scythians, Turkic and Mongol peoples of the East to Greeks and Romans from the West, from Indo-European tribes from the West as well as the East, and to Arabs and Iranians from the South. It is a story of rival claims by Empires and nations and of how the region has become home to more than 50 languages that can be heard within its borders to this very day. This first volume charts the period from the emergence of the earliest human populations in the region – the first known human populations outside Africa - to the Seljuk conquests of 1050CE. Along the way the book charts the development of Neolithic, Iron and Bronze Age cultures, the first recognizable Caucasian state and the arrival of a succession of the great transnational Empires, from the Greeks, the Romans and the Armenian to competing Christian and Muslim conquerors. The History of the Caucasus: Volume 1 also includes more than 200 full colour images and maps bringing the changing cultures of these lands vividly to life.

Автор: Perlik
Название: The spatial and economic transformation of mountain regions
ISBN: 1138784087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138784086
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The Spatial and Economic Transformation of Mountain Regions describes the socio-economic changes and spatial impacts of the last four decades, with the transformation of mountain areas as an example. Much of the real world context draws on the Alps, spanning as they do, the significant economies of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

Автор: Bontje
Название: Inventive City-Regions
ISBN: 1138269883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138269880
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Описание: Virtually every city-region in West and Central Europe has developed policies and strategies to attract, retain and encourage creative industries and knowledge-intensive services. Since most of these citiy-regions tend to see a creative knowledge economy as 'the best bet for the future', one of the main goals of such policies and strategies is increasing the international competitiveness of their city-region. Using the cities of Amsterdam, Barcelona, Birmingham, Helsinki, Leipzig, Manchester, and Munich as case studies, this book explores the spatial, economic, historical, socio-demographic, socio-cultural and political conditions that may determine whether a city-region is or can become attractive for creative and knowledge-intensive companies, and for the talented people working for or founding these companies. A comparison of the case studies and an overview of the key findings, similarities and differences which lead to policy recommendations as well as suggested directions for further research will make this book attractive to urban and regional academics, planners and students.

Автор: Mandaville
Название: Flora Of Eastern Saudi Arabia
ISBN: 1138974382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138974388
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Автор: Goetz, Marta
Название: Clusters, digital transformation and regional development in germany
ISBN: 0367435152 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367435158
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Описание: The information age is reshaping current socio-economic structures and processes and this book touches upon the nature of clusters in the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0; I4.0).

Автор: Taro Kageyama, Hideki Kishimoto
Название: Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation
ISBN: 1614512752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614512752
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 384310.00 T
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Описание: This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history, Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed of four lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii) Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative character of the language by which morphology is closely associated with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions with word formation processes that are not easily found with inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.

Название: Geoeconomics and Geosecurities in the Indian Ocean Region
ISBN: 1138205419 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138205413
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book argues there is inevitably a close relationship between geoeconomics and geosecurities, and considers the challenges and opportunities for the emerging Indian Ocean regionalism arising from this relationship.

Автор: Pike, Andy
Название: `Whither regional studies?`
ISBN: 0415478758 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415478755
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Название: Whither Islam:Orientalism V 9
ISBN: 0415513731 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415513739
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Автор: Donoghue, Matthew
Название: Whither social rights in (post-)brexit europe?
ISBN: 3948314179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783948314170
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With the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union, it is appropriate to reflect on the future social pathways now open to the European Union, made more possible perhaps by the UK's exit. For example, could Brexit result in an EU in which considerations of social citizenship and rights are elevated up the agenda in Brussels? Could the EU's focus hitherto on ever-closer economic union and international competitiveness be shifted towards the European Pillar of Social Rights so as to strengthen it, make it more tangible in citizens' lives and central to a renewed EU agenda? A reinvigorated social Europe may yet arise from the Covid-19 pandemic and its tragic consequences owing to a widespread, recovered recognition, not only of the state's positive role in managing such crises, but of how it can play a decisive, transformative role in our lives for the better.

This book correctly emphasises the need to place the future of social rights in Europe front and centre in the post-Brexit debate, to move on from the economistic bias that has obscured our vision of a progressive social Europe. I welcome, too, the inclusion of chapters examining the consequences of Brexit on Irish-British relations, as well as its socio-economic implications for households and families, and the complexities of migration within and beyond the EU-all issues that were regrettably overlooked in the pre-Brexit, rancorous debate.

New ideas are now available-ideas based on equality, universal public services, equity of access, sufficiency, sustainability-that will allow for a social Europe embedded in an alternative paradigm of social economy within ecological responsibility, now so urgently desired across the streets of Europe. Out of the wreckage and tragedy of Covid-19, let us all work together with an enhanced spirit of commitment to the delivery of social rights for all Europeans.

Michael D Higgins

President of Ireland

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'The EU invented a Pillar of Social Rights in 2017. The authors of this book explore whether it became a game-changer, and if various aspects of social citizenship would affect post-Brexit relations between the UK and the remaining 27 member states. In the shadow of Covid-19, it is even more important to ask.'

- L szl Andor, general secretary of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies and a former European commissioner for employment, social affairs and inclusion

'Featuring essays from some of the most insightful and accomplished observers of European politics today, this volume will prove invaluable to those interested in understanding how social rights will or should develop in a post-Brexit EU.'

- Sheri Berman, professor of political science at Barnard College and author of Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien R gime to the Present Day (Oxford University Press)

'In 2020, we've seen a year when the tectonic plates of geopolitical, economic and social realignments have started to shift in earnest. This work is both timely and essential for anyone who seeks to understand more deeply the important role that social rights and social justice can and must play if we are to create a more equal and just world.'

- Dr Wanda Wyporska, executive director of the Equality Trust, UK

Автор: Cudny, Waldemar
Название: City Branding and Promotion
ISBN: 1138488100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138488106
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The book presents the rules of creating a city promotion and branding strategy. It presents the problems of the strategic management of urban areas, various types of development strategies designed for cities, and the individual principles of creating a city promotion and branding strategy.