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Military Rule in Poland: The Rebuilding of Communist Power 1981–1983
1st Edition
By George Sanford
October 01, 2026
Originally published in 1986, this book explains why the Polish military took power in December 1981. It examines how this was done, and with what consequences. The experience of the State of War in Poland in 1982–83 and the repression of Polish Society and the Solidarity movement was a major event...
Polish Communism in Crisis
1st Edition
By George Sanford
October 01, 2026
Originally published in 1983, this is a detailed and hard-headed analysis of events in Poland from summer 1980 to December 1981, the period in which the efforts of Solidarity to achieve a free trade union and some degree of autonomy for working people were met with a final clampdown by the ...
Bengali Literature
1st Edition
By J. C. Ghosh
September 30, 2026
Originally published in 1948 and reissued in 1976, this book discusses the history of Bengali literature until the end of the nineteenth century. Although the twentieth century is not included the book culminates with a section on Rabindranath Tagore, in view of his importance as the first ...
Federalism in India: A Study of Union-State Relations
1st Edition
By Asok Chanda
September 30, 2026
More than 500 princely states and 12 Indian provinces were welded into a federation in 1950. The pattern of democracy in India is inevitably a reflection of the development of federal relations, the stresses and strains between the Centre and the states and between the states themselves. Originally...
Indian Administration
1st Edition
By Asok Chanda
September 30, 2026
When this book was originally published in 1958 India was (as it is now) a stabilizing force in South Asia. In this objective analysis, Asok Chanda discusses the progressive growth of parliamentary institutions in India which led to the establishment of a parliamentary democracy; the reorganization...
Local Government in Turkey: Governing Greater Istanbul
1st Edition
Edited
By Metin Heper
September 30, 2026
Istanbul is the largest city in Türkiye and one of the largest cities in Europe with a population (in 2025) of more than 15 million. In Turkey during the latter part of the twentieth century, great emphasis was placed on the decentralization of government as a means of further opening up the ...
Modern Government
1st Edition
By Ernest J. P. Benn
September 30, 2026
Modern Government (originally published in 1936) is a critique of the rapid expansion of state intervention and bureaucracy in Britain during the interwar period. The early 20th century was a crucial period in the making of the modern British state, when its fundamental contours were moulded by ...
Public Policy-Making For Local Government
1st Edition
By J. A. Chandler
September 30, 2026
When this book was originally published in 1988, recent studies of policy-making in Britain had suggested that decisions were made as a consequence of the interplay of private and public interests and the government. This work concludes that, at least in the context of policy-making towards local ...
The Geography of Public Finance: Welfare Under Fiscal Federalism and Local Government Finance
1st Edition
By Robert J. Bennett
September 30, 2026
In this authoritative study, originally published in 1980, R. J. Bennett examines who receives what benefit, where and at what cost, from the social services. He adopts an integrated approach to taxes, benefits and intergovernmental grants, drawing empirical examples from a wide range of countries,...
The Personal Social Services in Local Government
1st Edition
By Christine Hallett
September 30, 2026
Originally published in 1982, this book locates the personal social services firmly in their context of local and central government. In so doing it provides detailed historical information about the structure and the finance in central government’s contribution to local government funding. It also...
Black English: A Seminar
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah Sears Harrison, Tom Trabasso
September 01, 2026
When this volume was originally published in 1976, it contained completely new and original essays on the language of Black speakers of English. The contributors offer different ethnic and professional perspectives, representing fields such as linguistics, psychology, anthropology, sociolinguistics...
Change in Language: Whitney, Bréal, and Wegener
1st Edition
By Brigitte Nerlich
September 01, 2026
First published in 1990, Change in Language provides a fresh view of the history of nineteenth-century language study by focusing on the writings of three linguists—Whitney, Bréal and Wegener in three countries—the United States, France, and Germany. The standard histories of linguistics portray ...