A big cat overthrows the Indian state and establishes a reign of terror over the residents of a Himalayan town. A welfare legislation aimed at providing employment and commanding a huge budget becomes 'unimplementable' in a region bedeviled by high levels of poverty and unemployment. Paper Tiger provides a lively ethnographic account of how such seemingly bizarre scenarios come...(展开全部)

A big cat overthrows the Indian state and establishes a reign of terror over the residents of a Himalayan town. A welfare legislation aimed at providing employment and commanding a huge budget becomes 'unimplementable' in a region bedeviled by high levels of poverty and unemployment. Paper Tiger provides a lively ethnographic account of how such seemingly bizarre scenarios come...(展开全部)

The notion of the developmental state has come under attack in recent years. Critics charge that Japan's success in putting this notion into practice has not been replicated elsewhere, that the concept threatens the purity of free market economics, and that its shortcomings have led to financial turmoil in Asia. In this informative and thought-provoking book, a team of distingu...(展开全部)

Developmental state, n.: the government, motivated by desire for economic advancement, intervenes in industrial affairs.The notion of the developmental state has come under attack in recent years. Critics charge that Japan's success in putting this notion into practice has not been replicated elsewhere, that the concept threatens the purity of freemarket economics, and that its...(展开全部)

The notion of the developmental state has come under attack in recent years. Critics charge that Japan's success in putting this notion into practice has not been replicated elsewhere, that the concept threatens the purity of free market economics, and that its shortcomings have led to financial turmoil in Asia. In this informative and thought-provoking book, a team of distingu...(展开全部)

Developmental state, n.: the government, motivated by desire for economic advancement, intervenes in industrial affairs.The notion of the developmental state has come under attack in recent years. Critics charge that Japan's success in putting this notion into practice has not been replicated elsewhere, that the concept threatens the purity of freemarket economics, and that its...(展开全部)

This book presents an exploratory study of the Mughal state and its negotiation with local power relations. By studying the state from the perspective of the localities and not from that of the Mughal Court, it shifts the focus from the imperial grid to the local arenas, and more significantly, from 'form' to 'process'. As a result, the book offers a new interpretation of the s...(展开全部)

李峰，陕西宝鸡人。1983年西北大学历史系考古专业毕业，1986年获中国社会科学院考古研究所硕士，之后从事西周都城丰镐遗址的发掘。1990年进入日本东京大学攻读博士；赴美国后于2000年获得芝加哥大学博士学位。 现任美国哥伦比亚大学东亚语言和文化系教授，长期从事西周时期考古和历史，特别是西周金文的研究，为西方早期中国研究的重要学者，创办哥伦比亚大学早期中国讲座。2006年起主持山东龙口归域周代古城遗址的调查及发掘至今。中文著作另有《西周的灭亡：中国早期国家的地理和政治危机》（上海古籍出版社，2007）。

李峰，陕西宝鸡人。1983年西北大学历史系考古专业毕业，1986年获中国社会科学院考古研究所硕士，之后从事西周都城丰镐遗址的发掘。1990年进入日本东京大学攻读博士；赴美国后于2000年获得芝加哥大学博士学位。 现任美国哥伦比亚大学东亚语言和文化系教授，长期从事西周时期考古和历史，特别是西周金文的研究，为西方早期中国研究的重要学者，创办哥伦比亚大学早期中国讲座。2006年起主持山东龙口归域周代古城遗址的调查及发掘至今。中文著作另有《西周的灭亡：中国早期国家的地理和政治危机》（上海古籍出版社，2007）。

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, e...(展开全部)