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An examination of Marx's disputes with those anarchist theoreticians he encountered at various stages of his career, this study shows how Marx's encounters with Stirner, Proudhon and Bakunin were of vital importance to his career as a theorist and revolutionist.

It is recognised in the West that student support is crucial whilst the number of students in higher education continues to rise. In this study, Bruce Chapman analyses income contingent loans and particularly their role in supporting students.

Building on the work carried out in the 2004 Routledge book, 'Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe', an international team of contributors now turn their attention to the new EU member states.

This book examines the corpus of Jia Pingwa's writing and emphasises his importance, prominence and significance to contemporary Chinese society.

Ives examines the work of the US Green Berets in the early part of the Vietnam conflict. The book will appeal to students of Vietnam war, US strategy, special forces, small wars and strategic studies in general, as well as professional military colleges.

Citizen-making processes in European and Asian countries are compared in this interdisciplinary text that adopts an original approach by focusing upon the concept of citizenship as an effect of the educational enterprise.

Intended for students and academics involved with literary studies and history, this is an exploration of the British cultural understanding of India. The essays within this collection cover a wide range of topics and are written by a troupe of contributors, including P.J. Marshall, Anne Mellor and Nigel Leask.

Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world. This text brings together a group of innovative case studies of these mobile technologies of the city, tracing the emergence of both new socio-technical practices of the city, and a new theoretical paradigm for mobilities research.

Educational policy and discussion, in Britain and the USA, are increasingly dominated by the confused ideology of egalitarianism. David E. Cooper begins by identifying the principles hidden among the confusions, and argues that these necessarily conflict with the ideal of educational excellence.

This book examines immigration and settlement patterns in Britain and the civic position of ethnic minorities by outlining the development of race relations in the political context. It analyses the numbers, turnout patterns, voting behaviour and attitudes of the ethnic minorities to the political process and of the political parties to these minorities.

In the years 1938-1940 the British foreign office struggled to keep Finland safe from Soviet aggression & out of the German sphere of influence. Craig Gerrard follows the twists & turns of a diplomatic campaign that in many ways foreshadowed the Cold War.

Examining the prospects for building a regional community in Northeast Asia, this book considers the foreign policies of the individual states, as well as the impact of domestic politics on the regionalist agenda.

Throughout, this book is concerned to extend the range of politics beyond its usual institutional focus, to stress its interdisciplinary requirements and to expand the conception of politics in societies.

This book focuses on the literature produced at the time of the controversy over Wilkes and the Middlesex elections and by the debate in England over the French Revolution. Writings by Junius, Johnson, Burke, Paine, Mackintosh, Wollstonecraft and Arthur Young among others are examined in order to identify and estimate the effectiveness of the persuasive techniques used by these writers to communicate ideas to their respective audiences.

When the Cold War ended with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union, China emerged as the new potential disruptor of international stability. Drawing upon extensive primary resources, Ali questions the logic behind this perception, reflected both in popular and academic literature.

A critical look at regional development and governance, examining the causes of the South-East domination and comparing each region in terms of its characteristics and its experience of devolution.

The author believes that most 'philosophy of education' until now has been little more than the promotion of particular ideologies, and that progress can be made only by a more analytical approach. He therefore outlines the nature of 'philosophy of education' and defines some of its major problems.

Comparing physical and virtual mobilities, this work explores the new field of mobilities research as it relates to the individual. The author is an authority on time-space and telecommunications/information geographies.

This book draws together an international team of contributors, including Douglass North, Harold Demsetz and Michael Piore to assess the different types of capitalism that operate in the world today.

This collection of essays is central to the debate on open education, analysing the important concepts in the field. The contributions, all written by authorities on the philosophy of education, deal with problems of definition, knowledge, socialization, freedom, cultural perspective, and unique meanings and metaphors.