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This volume analyses the relationship between the state and the evolution of the national systems of innovation in the five BRICS countries ¿ Brazil, Russia, India, China and, South Africa, putting forward several valuable considerations and policy recommendations.

A unique ethnographic study, this book reveals the social, economic, political and urban complexities that define Dharavi, the urban mega-slum, tracing its gradual transformation as a thriving trade centre under globalization. It provides a rare account of its history, with a focus on its original populace of leather workers.

This book explores how the liberal conception of justice with all its ideological underpinnings is reflected in the framing and working of the Constitution of India, in the adoption of broader socio-economic objectives, in the functioning of judicial and state institutions, and in the formulation and implementation of development strategy. It an

These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage ¿ the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ¿ from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century.

In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches to ask how Venice's appeal has affected Western culture since 1800.

This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease ¿ a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that `nervousness¿ was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.

Previous histories on O¿Connell have dealt predominantly with his attempts to secure a repeal of the 1800 Act of Union and on his success in achieving Catholic Emancipation in 1829, Kinealy focuses instead on the neglected issue of O¿Connell¿s contribution to the anti-slavery movement in the United States.

Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana ¿ the female quarters of the Indic home or palace ¿ this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for `aging¿ existed at this time, a person¿s age was a significant aspect of their identity.

Through an examination of her complete works and public response to them, Robertson gauges the extent of Inchbald's reputation as the dignified Mrs Inchbald, as well as providing a clear sense of what it meant to be a female Romantic writer.

The essays in this collection examine emotional responses to art and music, the role of emotions in contemporary notions of gender and sexuality and theoretical questions as to their use.

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This anthology celebrates dancing diversities in Malaysia, a multicultural nation with old and not-so-old dance traditions. It documents the legacy of dances from the Malay Sultanates to a contemporary remix of old and new dances inspired by a range of influences and indigenous traditions

Recognising the crucial role that civil society plays in contexts of conflict and peace-building, this book looks at how governmental actors across different regions ¿ Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe ¿ can partner with civil society to bring about conflict resolution.

Charlotte Smith's early sonnets established the genre as a Romantic form, her novels advanced sensibility beyond its reliance on emotional facility, and her blank verse initiated one of the most familiar of Romantic verse forms. This volume draws together the best of current scholarship.

Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes ¿ both geographical and metaphorical ¿ and literatures.

Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action.

The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernity. This title claims that these writers advocated a failed ideology which itself declined after 1730. It argues for an evolution of their ideas into a more modern form.