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This book attempts to chart, analyse and project the changing dimensions of Bengali football culture in the wider context of political evolution, social transition and economic transformation in Bengal/West Bengal.

John Toland was notorious. A pamphleteer, a polemicist and a prankster of the first order, modern scholarship has struggled to position his writings within the debates of his day. This study is the first to fully recount his remarkable biography, situating his writings within the controversies that sparked and shaped them.

Historians often view early modern Ireland as a testing ground for subsequent British colonial adventures further afield. McGrath argues against this passive view, suggesting that Ireland played an enthusiastic role in the establishment and expansion of the first British Empire. He focuses on two key areas of empire-building: finance and defence.

Doyle examines the role of local and national politics on hospitals. Ultimately, Doyle argues that social and economic diversity created a number of models for future health care which rested on a combination of voluntary and municipal provision.

British imperial encounters with indigenous cultures created perceptions and stereotypes that still persist today. The initial creation of racial images in relation to violence had particular consequences for land ownership. Standfield examines these differences and how they occurred.

The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture.

This is the first historical study of indigenous Australian masculinity. Using the reactions of eighteenth-century western explorers to Aboriginal men, Konishi argues that these encounters were not as negative as has been thought.

Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves. Whilst previous studies have tended to focus on middle-class literary reading patterns, this study examines writing skills separately both from reading skills and from literature.

Fin-de-siècle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creations. Cordell asserts that these revolutionary acts constitute a transatlantic conversation about aesthetic practice and creative ownership.

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Focuses on the different methods that economic science has employed in order to detect and measure barriers to entry. This book presents a chronological analysis of competing Harvard and Chicago Schools' interpretations of this phenomenon.

The book discusses the implications of globalization on education from the perspective of social justice. It looks at two countries ¿ India and the UK ¿ to examine how global economic and cultural processes are mediated through nation states, institutional structures and the aspirations of different social groups with a focus on education.

This book attempts to identify the adverse consequences of climate change (CC) on agriculture and food production. It explores certain methods used to quantify river-basin-wide vulnerability to CC, and suggests adaptation mechanisms and their costs. These methodologies are relevant to all river basins, especially the Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery.

Focusing on the feminist conceptualisation of violence against women, this volume uses detailed case studies to document the diverse aspects and challenges of feminist psychosocial interventions in counselling. It demonstrates how this form of counselling facilitates healing and empowers survivors to question systemic oppression while helping th

This book analyses multiple issues relating to the vulnerabilities of the informal sector workers in South Asia through a comparison of existing social protection policies in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, and examines to what extent respective governments and policies have been effective in addressing the needs of this sectio

This book is an unprecedented attempt to initiate an academic dialogue on disability studies in India by bringing together contemporary research, with particular emphasis on the intersections of disability with gender, class, caste, ethnicity, and urban¿rural location in the diverse areas of law, policy, medicine, family and culture.

The book provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary ethnic movements and violence in South Asia. Specifically, it addresses some of the reasons for the failure of ethnic conflict management in northeast India, and for the frequent emergence of violence in the region.

Despite their economic and social importance, there are relatively few book-length studies of national insurance industries. This collection of nine essays by a group of international experts redresses this balance, providing an extensive geographical and thematic spread, linked via an extensive introduction.

This book gives a comprehensive account of the history and underlying economics of the modern art market in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

Indiäs National Security Annual Review 2011 comprehensively analyses Indiäs engagement with major world powers in a complex global security environment and its response to domestic security challenges such as insurgent movements in the northeastern and tribal areas and unrest in Jammu and Kashmir.