Jeffrey Witsoe's Books

Democracy against Development

Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

By: Jeffrey Witsoe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Democracy against Development

Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

By: Jeffrey Witsoe

Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy against Development, Jeffrey Witsoe investigates this counter-narrative, uncovering an antagonistic relationship between recent democratic mobilization and development-oriented governance in India. Witsoe looks at the history of colonialism in India and its role in both shaping modern caste identities and linking locally powerful caste groups to state institutions, which has effectively created a postcolonial patronage state. He then looks at the rise of lower-caste politics in one of India’s poorest and most populous states, Bihar, showing how this increase in democratic participation has radically threatened the patronage state by systematically weakening its institutions and disrupting its development projects. By depicting democracy and development as they truly are in India—in tension—Witsoe reveals crucial new empirical and theoretical insights about the long-term trajectory of democratization in the larger postcolonial world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

254

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022606350X

ISBN 13

9780226063508

Democracy against Development

Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

By: Jeffrey Witsoe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Democracy against Development

Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

By: Jeffrey Witsoe

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

254

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022606350X

ISBN 13

9780226063508

India

Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century

By: John Harriss,Craig Jeffrey,Trent Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

India

Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century

By: John Harriss,Craig Jeffrey,Trent Brown

India has been catapulted to the centre of world attention. Its rapidly growing economy, new geo-political confidence, and global cultural influence have ensured that people across the world recognise India as one of the main sites of social dynamism in the early twenty-first century. In this book, research leaders John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey and Trent Brown explore in depth the economic, social, and political changes occurring in India today, and their implications for the people of India and the world. Each of the book’s fourteen chapters seeks to answer a key question: Is India’s democracy under threat? Can India’s Growth be sustained? How are youth changing India? Drawing on a wealth of scholarly and popular material as well as their own experience researching the country during this period of major transformation, the authors draw the reader into key debates about economic growth, poverty, environmental justice, the character of Indian democracy, rights and social movements, gender, caste, education, and foreign policy. India, they conclude, has undergone some extraordinary and positive changes since the early 1990s but deeply worrying threats remain: increasing authoritarianism, growing inequality, entrenched poverty, and environmental vulnerability. How India responds to these crucial challenges will shape the world’s largest democracy for years to come.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

424

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1509539727

ISBN 13

9781509539727

Rothman-Simeone The Spine E-Book

By: Steven R. Garfin,Frank J. Eismont,Gordon R. Bell,Christopher M. Bono,Jeffrey S. Fischgrund

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rothman-Simeone The Spine E-Book

By: Steven R. Garfin,Frank J. Eismont,Gordon R. Bell,Christopher M. Bono,Jeffrey S. Fischgrund

Get comprehensive, practical coverage of both surgical and non-surgical treatment approaches from the world's most trusted authorities in spine surgery and care. Rothman-Simeone and Herkowitz's The Spine, 7th Edition, edited by Drs. Steven R. Garfin, Frank J. Eismont, Gordon R. Bell, Jeffrey S. Fischgrund, and Christopher M. Bono, presents state-of-the-art techniques helping you apply today's newest developments in your practice. - Highlights critical information through the use of pearls, pitfalls, and key points throughout the text, as well as more than 2,300 full-color photographs and illustrations. - Offers a newly revised, streamlined format that makes it easier than ever to find the information you need. - Contains new chapters on the clinical relevance of finite element modeling and SI joint surgery. - Includes an expanded section on minimally invasive spine surgery, including recent developments and future directions. - Provides the latest evidence-based research from high-quality studies, including new randomized controlled trials for lumbar stenosis, surgery, fusion, and injections. - Presents the knowledge and expertise of new international contributors, as well as new editorial leadership from Dr. Steven Garfin. - Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

2127

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

0323511953

ISBN 13

9780323511957

Aesthetics and Design

The Value of Everyday Living

By: Jeffrey Petts

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Aesthetics and Design

The Value of Everyday Living

By: Jeffrey Petts

What designers do and how we all, as users of designed things, live with their products raises fundamental philosophical questions about how we should live, and how the nature of design work and good design relates to our lives. Jeffrey Petts presents a holistic and pragmatist approach to the philosophy of design. Acknowledging the importance of function in design without downplaying the aesthetic dimension, Petts relates the manner of evaluating design to the designing process itself as demonstrated in the work of, for example, William Morris, Walter Gropius and Bauhaus, Charles and Ray Eames, and Dieter Rams. This metacritical and everyday approach to the philosophy of design expresses a commitment to real aesthetics, connecting concrete issues in both practice and experience to philosophical ideas, and reveals the role aesthetics plays in considerations about the good life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

219

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1350213055

ISBN 13

9781350213050

Design in the USA

By: Jeffrey L. Meikle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Design in the USA

By: Jeffrey L. Meikle

From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lampshade, the world in which we live has been profoundly influenced for over a century by the work of American designers. Beautifully illustrated, "Design in the USA" explores the underlying history of American design over the past two centuries.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0192842196

ISBN 13

9780192842190

Twentieth Century Limited

Industrial Design In America 1925-1939

By: Jeffrey Meikle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Twentieth Century Limited

Industrial Design In America 1925-1939

By: Jeffrey Meikle

In the late 1920's "streamlined" became the term businessmen used to describe new models that were easier to produce as well as those that met with less sales resistance than older products. Illustrating this concept with streamlined objects from soup cans to the Chrysler building, Jeffrey Meikle's classic book, Twentieth Century Limited, celebrates the birth of the industrial design profession from 1925-1939. This second edition includes a new preface and improved photographic reproduction. Commercial artists who answered the call of business -- Walter Dorwin Teague, Norman Bel Geddes, Henry Dreyfuss, and Raymond Loewy the best known among them -- were pioneers who envisioned a coherent machine-age environment in which life would be clean, efficient, and harmonious. Working with new materials -- chrome, stainless steel, Bakelite plastic -- they created a streamlined expressionist style which reflected the desire of the Depression-era public for a frictionless, static society. Appliances such as Loewy's Coldspot refrigerator "set a new standard" (according to the advertisements), and its usefulness extended to the way it improved the middle-class consumer's taste for sleek new products. Profusely illustrated with 150 photographs, Twentieth Century Limited pays tribute to the industrial designers and the way they transformed American culture; a generation after its initial publication, this book remains the best introduction to the subject. The new edition will fascinate anyone interested in art, architecture, technology, and American culture of the 1930's.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

272

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1566398924

ISBN 13

9781566398923

Book's by Jeffrey Witsoe

Democracy against Development

Democracy against Development

Democracy against Development

Democracy against Development

India

India

Rothman-Simeone The Spine E-Book

Rothman-Simeone The Spine E-Book

Aesthetics and Design

Aesthetics and Design

Design in the USA

Design in the USA

Twentieth Century Limited

Twentieth Century Limited

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email