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Product Description: First published in 1969.The 'consequences' in this book refer to Peking's policy on people's war and to US counter-measures; and the effect of these in South East Asia. The author argues that, on the whole, China under Communism was a better place for the majority of people than it was under the Kuomintang...read more

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9781138892637 | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 10, 2015), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This book, first published in 1969, casts a critical eye over the problem of insurgency.
9780415361514 | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 4, 2005), cover price $230.00 | About this edition: First published in 1969.

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9781138978133 | Reprint edition (Routledge, June 30, 2016), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: First published in 1969.

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Product Description: The important theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Touraine, discussed in this book, seek to explain and resolve the 'crisis of democracy'. They start from a critique of structural inequality in political, economic and social fields - so much in contrast to democratic principles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781403933799 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 24, 2004, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The important theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Touraine, discussed in this book, seek to explain and resolve the 'crisis of democracy'.

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9780415183246 | Routledge, December 1, 1998, cover price $170.00

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9780415183253 | Routledge, November 1, 1998, cover price $59.95

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Product Description: Corruption arises from the collusion of economic and political elites, a practice that has developed in order to overcome the contradiction of two important processes of our time: capitalism and democracy. In this new study of the phenomenon, the author shows how corruption is the practice of collusion taken to excess; 'the unacceptable face of capitalism'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780415152068 | Routledge, May 1, 1997, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Corruption arises from the collusion of economic and political elites, a practice that has developed in order to overcome the contradiction of two important processes of our time: capitalism and democracy.

Product Description: A study of rapid capitalist development in Thailand and the rivalries generated not only between the older bureaucracy and the newer, rising entrepreneurial elite, but also between urban and rural entrepreneurs. Girling explores the classic problems associated with capitalism and democracy, the dangers and exhilaration of nationalist sentiment, the contradictions inherent in Thai development, and the rise of the middle class...read more

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9780877277200 | Cornell Univ Southeast Asia, October 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A study of rapid capitalist development in Thailand and the rivalries generated not only between the older bureaucracy and the newer, rising entrepreneurial elite, but also between urban and rural entrepreneurs.

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Product Description: "In an intriguing and provocative bookan important thesis. An important addition to libraries serving both academic and general readers." --Choice

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9781560000921 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 1993, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: "In an intriguing and provocative bookan important thesis.

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Product Description: This book comprises a critical evaluation of Marxist, Gramascian and pluralist theories of social development and the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries.

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9780709938507 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, December 1, 1987, cover price $58.50 | About this edition: This book comprises a critical evaluation of Marxist, Gramascian and pluralist theories of social development and the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries.

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9780801493287 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, July 1, 1985), cover price $14.95

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