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Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 44.00A full history of Bundu, a Muslim state which developed a uniquely pragmatic outlook. more...
Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism and Identity
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 195.00The book examines the variety of issues surrounding Chinese enterprise development from national and transnational perspectives, starting with the role played by Chinese entrepreneurs in the 1997 Asian financial crisis. more...
Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering
Springer 2007; US$ 189.99Increasing environmental concerns demand interdisciplinary approaches enabling engineers, natural scientists, economists and computer scientists to work together. Information technology is vital to all scientists involved in environmental engineering, covering modeling and simulation, information systems, formal methods and data processing techniques,... more...
Chinese Business in Southeast Asia
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95Presents empirical findings from different South-East Asian countries to demonstrate that Chinese businessmen employ a variety of strategies in their networking, entrepreneurship and organisational and firm development; and concludes that much more research is needed in order to provide a full understanding of Chinese business success. more...
Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 29.00This compelling example of the new cultural history of South Africa argues that cultural factors were related to high political developments in the colonial Cape. It describes changes in social identity accompanying the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and the development of white racism and of ideologies of resistance. more...
Re-Imagining Rwanda
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00Pottier shows how the post-genocide regime in Rwanda imposed their account of Central Africa's crises upon international commentators, and explains the ideological underpinnings of this official narrative. He examines how persuasive, but fatally misleading analysis of the situation on the ground led to policy errors that exacerbated the original crisis. more...
Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 34.00This is a book about 'middlemen': Africans who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over 300 years. Based on written and oral sources, it follows the Duala, a critical community, from precolonial history to the end of colonialism, covering both German and French colonial role. more...
Transforming Mozambique
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 37.00Economic transformations in Africa have been dramatic. This study of Mozambique's shift to a market economy reveals that it is more political and protracted than critics contend. The state remains a central actor, but social forces have also shaped the outcome of the restructuring. more...
Guerrilla Veterans in Post-war Zimbabwe
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 38.00Examines the peace settlement and veterans' programs after Zimbabwe's guerrilla war of independence. It shows continuities in the relationship between the ruling party and veterans in the first seven years and in contemporary Zimbabwe. This is the first extended study of the relationship between the ruling party and the veterans. more...
Internetbasierte Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2009; US$ 65.02Hauptbeschreibung Stichwort Corporate Social Responsibility: Von Unternehmen wird zunehmend auch ökologisches und soziales Handeln erwartet. So genannte Nachhaltigkeitsberichte, die solches Engagement dokumentieren, fragt die Öffentlichkeit immer stärker nach. Wie es den Unternehmen gelingt, diese Informationen attraktiv und gleichzeitig effizient... more...









