P W Preston
Biographic Data
| ID | 283249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P W Preston |
| GIVEN NAMES | P W |
| FAMILY NAME | Preston |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTON P W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
After the Empires
The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. Following imperial crisis in the 1930s and 1940s, independent na
State-Empire Dissolution
The downstream consequences of the collapse of state-empire systems have been much discussed. The familiar metropolitan view is cast in terms of the continuity of the core nation-state along with the more or less voluntary acquiescence of core elites in the wishes of peripheral nationalist groupings, which, in turn, in general, cast matters in terms of the long overdue achievement of independence, the precondition of the pursuit of development. T…
Making Enemies: The Cold War
In hindsight the Cold War was an elaborate confection, a set of institutionally carried Manichean comparisons, which served to legitimate the military division of Europe into two camps. The Cold War comprised a set of mutually directed institutionally carried actions and claims which assisted the control exercised by respective lead nations over their territories; such activities/claims involved diplomacy, economy, politics, the military and cult…
Britain After Empire: Constructing a Post-War Political-Cultural Project
Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms
Arguments and actions in social theory
Exploring the philosophy of social science, where claims about the nature, intellectual value and utility of social theorizing are routinely disputed, this book argues that social theorizing comprises a wide diversity of situation-bound attempts to make practical sense of shifting circumstances. Placing theorists within the social world this study shows how theorizing is both bounded and creative, how imagination and creativity builds upon the re…
Singapore in the Global System: Relationship, Structure and Change
This book tracks the phases of Singapore’s economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country’s future. Singapore has followed a distinctive historical development trajectory. It was one of a number of cities which provided bases for the expansion of the Brit…
Strategic Cultures in the Asia-Pacific Region; by Ken Booth and Russell Trood; London, Macmillan, 1999
The Dissolution of Britain
New Trends in Development Theory: Essays in Development and Social Theory
1. Some Notes on the Significance of the Career of Development Studies 2. The Specificity of Social-theoretic Engagement: Some Lessons for 'Neo-Marxian' Studies of Development 3. Becoming Industrialised, Being Industrial: A Brief Analysis of a Particular Planning Mode of Engagement 4. The Impact of the 'Received Model' of Natural Science Upon Social Theorising 5. Comparative Ranking: Some Approaches to the Task of Rationally Adjudicating Between …
Theories of Development
Theories of Development
Theories of Development
Journal Article Theories of Development Get access Theories of Development. By P. W. PRESTON. (Henley-on-Thames: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. Pp. xiii + 296. £13.95.) Diana Hunt Diana Hunt The University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 374, 1 June 1984, Pages 439–441, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232384 Published: 01 June 1984
Introduction to the Sociology of 'Developing Societies
Introduction to the Sociology of 'Developing Societies
Theories of Development
Theories of Development
Theories of Development
Journal Article Theories of Development Get access Theories of Development. By P. W. PRESTON. (Henley-on-Thames: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. Pp. xiii + 296. £13.95.) Diana Hunt Diana Hunt The University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 374, 1 June 1984, Pages 439–441, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232384 Published: 01 June 1984
New Trends in Development Theory: Essays in Development and Social Theory
1. Some Notes on the Significance of the Career of Development Studies 2. The Specificity of Social-theoretic Engagement: Some Lessons for 'Neo-Marxian' Studies of Development 3. Becoming Industrialised, Being Industrial: A Brief Analysis of a Particular Planning Mode of Engagement 4. The Impact of the 'Received Model' of Natural Science Upon Social Theorising 5. Comparative Ranking: Some Approaches to the Task of Rationally Adjudicating Between …
The Dissolution of Britain
Strategic Cultures in the Asia-Pacific Region; by Ken Booth and Russell Trood; London, Macmillan, 1999
Singapore in the Global System: Relationship, Structure and Change
This book tracks the phases of Singapore’s economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country’s future. Singapore has followed a distinctive historical development trajectory. It was one of a number of cities which provided bases for the expansion of the Brit…
Arguments and actions in social theory
Exploring the philosophy of social science, where claims about the nature, intellectual value and utility of social theorizing are routinely disputed, this book argues that social theorizing comprises a wide diversity of situation-bound attempts to make practical sense of shifting circumstances. Placing theorists within the social world this study shows how theorizing is both bounded and creative, how imagination and creativity builds upon the re…
After the Empires
The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. Following imperial crisis in the 1930s and 1940s, independent na
State-Empire Dissolution
The downstream consequences of the collapse of state-empire systems have been much discussed. The familiar metropolitan view is cast in terms of the continuity of the core nation-state along with the more or less voluntary acquiescence of core elites in the wishes of peripheral nationalist groupings, which, in turn, in general, cast matters in terms of the long overdue achievement of independence, the precondition of the pursuit of development. T…
Making Enemies: The Cold War
In hindsight the Cold War was an elaborate confection, a set of institutionally carried Manichean comparisons, which served to legitimate the military division of Europe into two camps. The Cold War comprised a set of mutually directed institutionally carried actions and claims which assisted the control exercised by respective lead nations over their territories; such activities/claims involved diplomacy, economy, politics, the military and cult…
Britain After Empire: Constructing a Post-War Political-Cultural Project
Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms
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