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Beyond the sociology of development
Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics
Schooling the New South
The Indonesian economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Latin America
Comparative Politics
Doing Business with Russia
Iran, the illusion of power
The Demise of the Dollar
Academies and society in Southern Sung China
Financial turmoil in Europe and the United States
City schools
Progress and poverty
Uneven development and regionalism
This is Who We Were
How the Chinese economy works
Uncertain unions
The Future is Asian
The new political economy of urban education
Globalisation and the Western legal tradition
China in the world economy
Enabling consumer and entrepreneurial literacy in subsistence marketplaces
The Panic of 1907
Comparative education
The Enduring Seminoles
Peasant economic development within the English manorial system
Nation, state and the Industrial Revolution
Economic Geography
Political economy, growth and liberalisation in India, 1991-2008
The development of capitalism in Russia
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