BOOKS

Main Trends in History
Geoffrey Barraclough, expanded and updated by Michael Burns

This work places present-day historical studies in a new and comprehensive perspective. Anyone who wishes to understand the past in the light of current knowledge and interpretations will    More >

Mainstreaming Microfinance: How Lending to the Poor Began, Grew, and Came of Age in Bolivia
Elisabeth Rhyne

Microcredit in Bolivia grew and became successful in only a decade, lifting an enormous segment of the country’s population into the financial mainstream in the process. The example of    More >

Maize Seed Industries in Developing Countries
Michael L. Morris, editor

Unless more effective ways can be found to deliver high-yielding seed to farmers in developing countries, the hoped-for “green revolution” in maize production will remain    More >

Major Powers at a Crossroads: Economic Interdependence and an Asia Pacific Security Community
Ming Zhang

Is there a relationship between economic interdependence and the cohesion of an Asia Pacific security community? Ming Zhang addresses this controversial question, exploring the potential for    More >

Making a Life Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford
David G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum

In the first analytical history of this important Jewish community, David G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum draw extensively on primary sources to place Hartford within the larger contexts of    More >

Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami: Immigration and the Rise of a Global City
Elizabeth M. Aranda, Sallie Hughes, and Elena Sabogal

With more than a million immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, Miami, Florida, boasts the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any US city. Charting the rise of Miami    More >

Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg, and Hicham Alaoui

With hardening authoritarianism and state capture by militias exacerbating the challenges faced by providers of development and political aid across the Middle East and North Africa, how can    More >

Making China Policy: From Nixon to G.W. Bush
Jean A. Garrison

What explains the twists and turns in US-China relations since Richard Nixon initiated a policy of engagement in the early 1970s? Addressing this question, Jean Garrison examines the    More >

Making Decentralization Work: Democracy, Development, and Security
Ed Connerley, Kent Eaton, and Paul Smoke, editors

It is increasingly difficult to find developing countries whose leaders have not debated or implemented some type of decentralization reform. But has decentralization worked? Does it    More >

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