Regional Studies

While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for a long-standing tradition of more serious and meaningful depictions of Appalachia's people. Surveying some...

With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What...

This report documents Myanmar’s financial management systems, covering primarily the areas of budgeting, funds flow, accounting and reporting, and auditing systems.It provides insights into the quality of internal control systems, staffing resource...

As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word "tacky" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called "tackies" who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen...

Ivan H. Walton was a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs and stories of aging sailors living along the shores of the Great Lakes in the 1930s. His collection is unique in the annals of Great Lakes folklore. It began as a search for songs but...

This up-to-date and insightful book presents post-crisis scenarios for European regions with new methodologies and tools to support quantitative assessment and foresight. The aim is to develop regional forecasting methodologies and tools, appropriate to...

Originally initiated by the Presidential Committee on Regional Development in South Korea, this wide-ranging volume investigates the new directions in regional development policy taking shape around the world. In addition to contributions with individual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788251916929Author Jens Jacob JensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Tapir Academic PressPublisher Tapir Academic PressWeight(grams) 164g

This volume presents numerous facts about the 352 types of manufacturing in the nation and more specific facts about those related to the South. Herring reveals the directions in which the southeast has pushed its industrial development far enough and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997428322Author Jerilyn VeldofFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Twining PressPublisher Twining PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

What does it mean to be a Nashvillian? A black Nashvillian? A white Nashvillian? What does it mean to be an organizer, an ally, an elected official, an agent for change? Deep Dish Conversations is a running online interview series in which host Jerome...

First published in 1955, Oscar Winzerling's Acadian Odyssey has remained unsurpassed as a study of the exodus of 1755. Following their eviction from Nova Scotia by the English, many hundreds of Acadians spent years in various seaport concentration camps...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692313602Author Will C CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Greenville Illinois Bicentennial BoardPublisher Greenville Illinois Bicentennial...

This colorful and exciting of Florida is in two parts: the historical land of Spanish galleons, Seminole Indians, and the Confederacy; second, the modern state with its land booms, resorts, and tourist attractions. This revised edition contains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469644684Author William Heard KilpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North...

In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified there, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most...

Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely popular guide, Along the River Road, Mary Ann Sternberg provides a revised introduction, new images, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312610616Author Ed VulliamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 405Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983447283Author Joe PellegrinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint South Asian Studies AssociationPublisher South Asian Studies AssociationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533526Author Thant Myint-UFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

This book explores the phenomenon of regionalism. In a seeming contradiction to globalization, there is a growing tendency for countries to enter into regional arrangements as a response to the pressures of operating in a global marketplace. But...

Regional differences matter. Even in an increasingly globalized world, rhetorical attention to regionalism yields very different understandings of geographic areas and the people who inhabit them. Regional identities often become most apparent in the...

The tenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. About the AuthorPhilip Payton is Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies in the...

Between 1900 and 2000, more than seventy countries produced a national atlas, an official or quasi-official rendering of the nation-state in maps and accompanying text. This book considers the reasons behind and characteristics of this state-sponsored...

'Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond' contains a collection of lucid, empirically grounded articles that explore and analyse the structures, agents and practices of social inclusion and exclusion in contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896445533Author Sandy CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint CCI PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 462gDimensions(mm) 248mm...

Between 1900 and 2000, more than seventy countries produced a national atlas, an official or quasi-official rendering of the nation-state in maps and accompanying text. This book considers the reasons behind and characteristics of this state-sponsored...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cultural and religious 'other', the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783083404Author Uwe SkodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

In the early 1960s the Middle East suffered from political instability, inefficiency of government, widespread poverty and inequality, low productivity, and a mounting population pressure on the region's resources. With the exception of some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857490247Author Joan BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Pambazuka PressPublisher Pambazuka PressWeight(grams) 586gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills...

Why are some countries rich while others are poor? Why are some well governed while others experience frequent conflict? And how do you measure a country's true success anyways? Social scientists have attempted to answer these types of questions for...

The eleventh volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. About the AuthorPhilip Payton is Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies in the...

More than twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, this book looks afresh at some of the lasting legacies of that period in history. It does so by focusing on individual life trajectories of a group of people whose...

The history of the United States has been deeply determined by Germans throughout time, but hardly anyone has noticed that this was the case in the Southwest as well, known as Arizona/Sonora today, in the eighteenth century as Pimeria Alta. This was the...

Two pioneering anthropologists reveal how complexity science can help us better understand how societies change over timeOver the past two decades, anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing and geneticist Murray Cox have explored dozens of villages on the...

As a young reporter in Uzbekistan, Bagila Bukharbayeva was a witness to her countrys search for an identity after the collapse of the Soviet Union. While self-proclaimed religious leaders argued about what was the true Islam, Bukharbayeva shows how some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772899589Author Russell DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788187498384Author L.S. GassahFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Regency PublicationsPublisher Regency Publications