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The aim of this book is to examine the transformation of the
geography of China in the years since the start of China's policy
of reform and opening-up in 1978, as seen through the eyes of
Chinese geographers. Throughout that period, Chinese geographers
have studied these environmental, economic, political and cultural
processes closely, drawing on sources that are far from easy to
access, and have published their results in Chinese. Much of this
research has underpinned the Chinese government's assessment of
policies and the policy choices at different levels, yet it is not
well known outside of China. This volume deals with aspects of the
socio-economic geography of China's transformation including its
changing relations with the rest of the world, although it also
deals with the impact of China's development path on the country's
ecological systems. Each chapter deals with aggregate trends and
specific cases to show the ways in which the particular
characteristics of China's economic and social order (economic
organization, political system and cultural model and values) have
shaped and are shaped by its geography.
Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international
labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early
modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion,
technological and scientific development, and cultural and material
exchanges around the world. This volume adopts a comparative
perspective, presenting current research about maritime labourers
across three centuries, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic
and Indian Oceans, to understand how seafarers contributed to legal
and economic transformation within Europe and across the world.
Focusing on the three related themes of legal systems, labouring
conditions, and imperial power, these essays explore the dynamic
and reciprocal relationship between seafarers' individual and
collective agency, and the social and economic frameworks which
structured their lives.
The aim of this book is to examine the transformation of the
geography of China in the years since the start of China's policy
of reform and opening-up in 1978, as seen through the eyes of
Chinese geographers. Throughout that period, Chinese geographers
have studied these environmental, economic, political and cultural
processes closely, drawing on sources that are far from easy to
access, and have published their results in Chinese. Much of this
research has underpinned the Chinese government's assessment of
policies and the policy choices at different levels, yet it is not
well known outside of China. This volume deals with aspects of the
socio-economic geography of China's transformation including its
changing relations with the rest of the world, although it also
deals with the impact of China's development path on the country's
ecological systems. Each chapter deals with aggregate trends and
specific cases to show the ways in which the particular
characteristics of China's economic and social order (economic
organization, political system and cultural model and values) have
shaped and are shaped by its geography.
The people of China and its (widely differing) regions have not all
benefited equally from the country's rapid increase in prosperity,
and the speed and timing of increases have varied across time and
space. However, China has managed to help those left behind to
catch up. These outcomes reflect a specific social model embedded
in China's cultural and political milieu. Exploring the Chinese
Social Model presents new analysis and fresh research on how China
deals with unequal development and inequality in the context of its
surging economic growth. The book sheds new light on the workings
of China's social model, going beyond binary notions of market and
state, and considers the new facets of its socialist market
economy. In exploring these questions, the authors consider what is
special about China and what the Chinese model is all about.
This is the first time that the story of Derby County's European
matches has been fully documented in one place. It begins with the
club's involvement in the Anglo-French Friendship Cup in the early
1960s through to the Texaco Cup in 1971, but then came the real
drama of the European Cup, when the Rams beat the powerful Benfica
on their way to a controversial semi-final meeting with Italian
giants Juventus. Further featured matches include the Rams hammer
Real Madrid and a record-breaking scoreline against the Irish
part-timers Finn Harps, while the 1990s saw the reintroduction of
the Anglo-Italian Cup and a Wembley appearance. Relive those
spellbinding nights here in Andy Ellis's fascinating new book -
every Derby County fan should own one.
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