Are there social, political and cultural factors in Africa which aspire to the continuation of patrimony and conspire against economic development? In association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana U Press (view table of contents)

Product Description: Understanding politics in nations other than your own is a perilous exercise. If you were to read two newspaper articles on the same topic but from different countries, you would likely find two very different interpretations of the same event...read more

Product Description: Understanding politics in nations other than your own is a perilous exercise. If you were to read two newspaper articles on the same topic but from different countries, you would likely find two very different interpretations of the same event...read more

Divisive politics are being replaced by co-operation betweeen Africa's premier powers, France and South Africa. Bringing together authorities on African international relations, this book addresses the changing nature of this relationship and its implications for the future of Africa.

Product Description: Responses to globalization in politics and governance at national, regional and local levels of government in France and Norway are explored in this study. France and Norway are European contrasts in most respects: the former is a central force in European integration, the latter is a sceptical outsider, one represents a Great Power tradition, the other small state internationalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge current understandings of elite distinction.