Routledge Library Editions: Development
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study for modern social science.
Money and Finance in Africa: The Experience of Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, the Sudan and Tunisia from the establishment of their central banks until 1962
1st Edition
By Erin Fleetwood
March 07, 2013
This reissue, first published in 1964, describes the contemporary problems faced and solutions found by the monetary and financial authorities of six African countries: Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, the Rhodesias, the Sudan and Tunisia, from the establishment of their central banks until 1962.This ...
New Trends in Development Theory: Essays in Development and Social Theory
1st Edition
By Peter Preston
March 07, 2013
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 ...
Patterns of Caribbean Development: An Interpretive Essay on Economic Change
1st Edition
By Jay Mandle
March 07, 2013
First published in 1982, this study attempts to put contemporary Caribbean development into historical perspective. By first constructing a Marxist framework for the study of development , Jay Mandle assesses the reasons why the region emerged underdeveloped and evaluates post-world-war two efforts...
Persistent Underdevelopment: Change and Economic Modernization in the West Indies
1st Edition
By Jay Mandle
March 07, 2013
First published in 1996, this insightful and informative text examines the post-emancipation and recent economic history of the Commonwealth Caribbean. Jay R. Mandle offers an explanation of the region’s continuing underdevelopment. Through the use of an analytical framework derived from the works ...
Planning African Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Glen Norcliffe, Tom Pinfold
March 07, 2013
First published in 1981, this book concerns specifically the Kenyan experience with regards to development planning but, given that the problems of hunger poverty and underdevelopment manifest themselves in slightly different forms across all African countries, this book has considerable relevance ...
Poltiical Change in the Third World
1st Edition
By Charles Andrain
March 07, 2013
In this informative and highly readable book, first published in 1988, Charles Andrain explores the ways in which public policies and socio-political beliefs and structures cause political change in the Third World. The author examines 3 types of political change: (1) transitions in political ...
Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel: Issues in the Welfare of Selected West African Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Allan G. Hill
March 07, 2013
This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the West African Sahel. Several important features of the Sahel are illustrated: the significance of seasonal factors in causing periodic stress amongst ...
Poverty, Class and Gender in Rural Africa: A Tanzanian Case Study
1st Edition
By John Sender, Sheila Smith
March 07, 2013
Focussing on a Fieldwork study of the West Usambaras in Tanzania, this study, first published in 1990, deals with processes of class formation and capitalist accumulation, and the dynamics of rural poverty and gender relations. Arguing that rural differentiation is systematically reinforced by the ...
Power and Independence: Urban Africans' Perception of Social Inequality
1st Edition
By Peter C. Lloyd
March 07, 2013
First published in 1974, this study, by a social anthropologist who has lived, taught and researched in Nigeria, explores how the Yoruba of Nigeria living in Ibadan and Lagos perceive the society in which they live. Their views on stratification and social inequality in particular are related to ...
Proletarianisation in the Third World: Studies in the Creation of a Labour Force Under Dependent Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry Munslow, Henry Finch
March 07, 2013
First published in 1984, this collection of twelve case studies examines the emergence of a free wage-labour force in all regions of the third world. Although the struggle and conflict through which the proletariat has achieved a degree of class consciousness is not neglected, the more dominant ...
Regional Security in the Third World: Case Studies from Southeast Asia and the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohammed Ayoob
March 07, 2013
This reissue, first published in 1986, argues that there is a radical difference between the use of the term ‘Regional Security’ when applied to the Third World rather than the developed world. It explores the concept of regional security and shows how items which make for regional security in the ...
Rethinking Development: Essays on Development and Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Peter Preston
March 07, 2013
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...