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Geography & Ethnic Pluralism (1984) examines the debate around
pluralism - the segmentation of population by race and culture - as
a social and state issue, and explores this issue in Third World
and metropolitan contexts. The field is opened up by a
re-examination of the seminal work of J.S. Furnivall and M.G. Smith
and by exploring the significance of racial and cultural diversity
in colonial, post-colonial and metropolitan situations. Case
studies written by specialists are presented in each chapter; they
represent a wide range of locales, indicating the global nature of
the theme and emphasising the variable significance of ethnicity in
different situations.
First Published in 1965. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1969. This title concerns itself with the
ambivalence of Lawrence's attitude towards corruption. Clarke
demonstrates that Lawrence's attitude to 'will' and to sensational
or disintegrative sex is much more equivocal than conceded. At the
same time this is a study of Lawrence's debt as a novelist to the
English Romantic poets. A tradition of metaphor is traced from the
second half of the eighteenth century, through the poetry of the
major Romantics to the Decadents, and so to Lawrence, whose
attitudes to mechanism and corruption are shown to be articulated,
above all, through ambivalent images of dissolution and
disintegration. This title will be of interest to students of
literature.
First published in 1969. This title concerns itself with the
ambivalence of Lawrence's attitude towards corruption. Clarke
demonstrates that Lawrence's attitude to 'will' and to sensational
or disintegrative sex is much more equivocal than conceded. At the
same time this is a study of Lawrence's debt as a novelist to the
English Romantic poets. A tradition of metaphor is traced from the
second half of the eighteenth century, through the poetry of the
major Romantics to the Decadents, and so to Lawrence, whose
attitudes to mechanism and corruption are shown to be articulated,
above all, through ambivalent images of dissolution and
disintegration. This title will be of interest to students of
literature.
First Published in 1965. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book offers a detailed picture of Jamaica before and after
independence. A 1961 journal sheds light on the political and
social context before independence, while a 1968 journal shows how
independence dissolved dissident forces and identifies the origins
of Jamaica's current two party politics.
This book provides a first-hand account of the author's encounters
as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in
Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes
and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural
communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two
leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume:
decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the
post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the
conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these
developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban
revolution, the cold war and student radicalism.
War's Nomads is an evocative account of one man's experience of
life in a mobile radar unit after the battle of El Alamein as
Rommel's AfrikaKorps was relentlessly pursued across the desert
through Egypt, Libya and Tunisia by the Eighth Army. It is the only
known detailed account in existence of the small radar units who
played a key part in the Western Desert Campaign. A budding
professional writer and grammar school master, Fred Grice had a
keen eye for detail and ear for language, which he assiduously
employed after he was called up in 1941, keeping two journals of
his experiences. The first,'On Draft' deals with waiting to embark
after initial training, with the journey to the battle zone, and
the privations of a low-ranking AC. Daily life on board ship is
vividly brought to life with details of routine, the cramped
conditions, the banter and pastimes used to pass the time by the
troops, and the by contrast luxurious existence of the officers.
The second, 'Erk in the Desert' gives a detailed account of the
activities of Unit 606, a radar crew that follows just behind the
battlefront. 606 provides radio-detection for the advanced landing
grounds being used by RAF fighter-bomber squadrons, because these
landing strips, in turn, are the target of the German Luftwaffe and
the Italian Air Force attacks. 606 was a tiny unit, never more than
10 men, often operating for protracted periods in complete
isolation. Fred's account vividly and lyrically evokes the
landscape and the often tense and dangerous environment they
operated in, pitching the reader into the experience of travelling
with the unit in a 3-ton lorry, finding ingenious solutions to lack
of rations and living space, even commandeering an abandoned boat
to relax in the sea, whilst constantly needing to be alert to dodge
air attacks. An authoritative introduction explains the background
to the military events of the Western Desert campaign, and the
purpose of 606's mission, which Fred for security reasons cannot
talk about: to get to a selection of the 200 or so landing grounds
in the desert with all speed; and then to defend them against air
attack by using a light warning set (radar) developed to go
operational within an hour. War's Nomads sheds light on a key but
little known aspect of the Eighth Army's Western Desert Campaign,
the first in British military history in which the RAF and the army
collaborated so closely. But much more than that it is a human
story by a gifted writer that recreates a lost time and landscapes.
This book provides a first-hand account of the author's encounters
as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in
Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes
and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural
communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two
leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume:
decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the
post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the
conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these
developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban
revolution, the cold war and student radicalism.
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Colin Clark
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Originally published in 1933, this book presents a study of the
relation between the size and efficiency of industries, with
special reference to the history of selected British and American
industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. The text covers the London building industry, the
Lancashire cotton industry, the Cleveland pig iron industry, the
Massachusetts cotton industry and the American pig iron industry.
This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in economic
history and industrial development.
The South Asian diaspora came into being with the end of slavery in
the British Empire. Huge numbers of labourers were recruited in the
Indian sub-continent for indentured labour schemes, notably in
Southeast Asia, South and East Africa, Mauritius, Fiji and the
Caribbean, and also in French colonies. Later there were waves of
'free' immigration to these and other countries, including, in the
last generation, Britain itself and North America. This set of
essays by scholars from several different disciplines offers
detailed accounts of the experience of the migrant communities, and
the editors contribute valuable overviews. Originally published in
1990, it is an indispensable resource for scholars interested in
the diaspora, or concerned with problems of migration.
In this sequel to Kingston, Jamaica: Urban Development and Social
Change, 1692 to 1962 (1975) Colin Clarke investigates the role of
class, colour, race, and culture in the changing social
stratification and spatial patterning of Kingston, Jamaica since
independence in 1962. He also assesses the strains - created by the
doubling of the population - on labour and housing markets, which
are themselves important ingredients in urban social
stratification. Special attention is also given to colour, class,
and race segregation, to the formation of the Kingston ghetto, to
the role of politics in the creation of zones of violence and drug
trading in downtown Kingston, and to the contribution of the arts
to the evolution of national culture. A special feature is the
inclusion of multiple maps produced and compiled using GIS
(geographical information systems). The book concludes with a
comparison with the post-colonial urban problems of South Africa
and Brazil, and an evalution of the de-colonization of Kingston.
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