Peter Preston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3994092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Preston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Preston |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Politics of China–Hong Kong Relations: Living with Distant Masters
In 1997 the British state relinquished control of Hong Kong and at this moment an established prosperous community was faced with reordering its sense of itself and its links with the wider world around the authority of Beijing. This book seeks to uncover the political logic of the process. Four issues are pursued: the manner of embedding a new political settlement, the business of governing the territory, the issue of democracy and the likely fu…
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…
Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem
`The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'. Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that of classic geographical descriptions which look at growth or decline, demographic patterns, traffic flows and economic potential: these empirically conceived models of urban geography fail to accommodate the crucial human aspect of city life. Located at the interface of geography and literature, Writing the City visu…
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
Theories of Development
Dr Preston’s book, first published in 1982, presents a critical history of development studies since the Second World War, linking the recent, neo-Marxist, debate with the whole tradition in the field, going back to the work of economists like Arthur Lewis. He identifies a series of ‘schools’ and evaluates their contribution, supplying in each case a careful analysis, informed by the sociology of knowledge, of the work of its leading theorists. H…
The other Side of the Coin: Reading the Politics of the 2008 Financial Tsunami
In the spring of 2009, long months after the September 2008 financial tsunami had begun its destructive journey around the financial machineries of the global system, the governing party of the United Kingdom, one of two countries whose financial centres had precipitated all the trouble, is still in place, notwithstanding the almost audible sound of a population tapping its collective foot as it awaits an electoral opportunity to wreak a measure …
Arguments and Actions in Social Theory
This book argues that theorists are located within the social world; exercises in theorizing are both bounded and creative; imagination and creativity build upon the resources of tradition; and such a
The Curse of Introversion
Sitting on the dock of the bay: 1 Partial views of change – Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong
The Curse of Introversion
Cutting Scotland Loose: Soft Nationalism and Independence-in-Europe
The reactions of metropolitan political elites to the recent electoral successes of Scottish Nationalists have been broadly negative; arguments for independence have been characterised in domestic United Kingdom terms and thereafter dismissed as voluntaristic, atavistic and indulgent. This is an error: the end of the comfortable certainties of the cold war has revealed a complex pattern of ever-changing structural relationships within which discr…
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…
Freedom from ‘Britain’: A Comment on Recent Elite-Sponsored Political Cultural Identities
The issue of identity has been widely discussed both in recent social science and in the public sphere; race, ethnicity, gender and nation have all been extensively discussed. A common thread has been the rejection of essentialist arguments that attempt to fix identities in extra-social phenomena in favour of an appreciation of their thoroughgoing social constructedness. Given these sophisticated understandings, how are we to account for the unex…
Reading the Ongoing Changes: European Identity
The question of the identity of Europe/Europeans moved into mainstream debate: how can the variety of 'national pasts' be reconciled, how might ideas of Europe/Europeans fit within the range of identities affirmed by Europeans, and can the project present a clear image within the international community? The European Union is the only game in town for Europeans but it is also deficient; reform is made more difficult by the struggle to define the …
East Asia: Emergent regional dynamics
The global system has seen sweeping changes in recent years and this has precipitated a revival of interest in the relationship between Europe and Asia. This book examines the extent and nature of the regional linkages between East Asia and the European Union. Issues discussed include: the reactions and approaches of both regions to the Asian Crisis; postcolonialism and the balance of power in Europe-Asia Relations; trade relations between Europe…
East Asia: Prospects for the New Decade
East Asia: Prospects for the New Decade
An analysis of contemporary dynamics of change within East Asia, cast in terms of the resources of the classical European tradition of social theorizing, suggests that three intermeshing logics of change are shaping the fundamental structural underpinnings of current events: the long-established drive for industrial-capitalist modernity, the now familiar concern for regional interchanges and the very recent unexpected episode of the Asian financi…
Strategic Cultures in the Asia-Pacific Region; by Ken Booth and Russell Trood; London, Macmillan, 1999
Development Theory: Learning the Lessons and Moving On
The rise of East Asia
Reading the Asian Crisis: History, Culture and Institutional Truths
Introduction The financial crisis of 1997-98 in Pacific Asia has been the subject of considerable debate.(1) The attention of political actors and policy analysts has been turned to the immediate issues of financial market instability, economic dislocation and consequent social and political problems. The debate has been politically fraught. At one extreme, advocates of an American-style liberal market system have blamed the political and busines…
Reading the Asian Crisis: History, Culture and Institutional Truths
Writing the City
Cutting Scotland Loose: Soft Nationalism and Independence-in-Europe
The reactions of metropolitan political elites to the recent electoral successes of Scottish Nationalists have been broadly negative; arguments for independence have been characterised in domestic United Kingdom terms and thereafter dismissed as voluntaristic, atavistic and indulgent. This is an error: the end of the comfortable certainties of the cold war has revealed a complex pattern of ever-changing structural relationships within which discr…
Freedom from ‘Britain’: A Comment on Recent Elite-Sponsored Political Cultural Identities
The issue of identity has been widely discussed both in recent social science and in the public sphere; race, ethnicity, gender and nation have all been extensively discussed. A common thread has been the rejection of essentialist arguments that attempt to fix identities in extra-social phenomena in favour of an appreciation of their thoroughgoing social constructedness. Given these sophisticated understandings, how are we to account for the unex…
Reading the Ongoing Changes: European Identity
The question of the identity of Europe/Europeans moved into mainstream debate: how can the variety of 'national pasts' be reconciled, how might ideas of Europe/Europeans fit within the range of identities affirmed by Europeans, and can the project present a clear image within the international community? The European Union is the only game in town for Europeans but it is also deficient; reform is made more difficult by the struggle to define the …
Introduction to the Sociology of 'Developing Societies
Introduction to the Sociology of 'Developing Societies
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 …
Raymond Williams: Politics, Education, Letters
The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume reflect the full range of Raymond Williams's interests and concentrate not only on the exposition and evaluation of his ideas, but also on ho
The Dissolution of Britain
Domestic Inhibitions to a Leadership Role for Japan in Pacific Asia
In the wake of the end of the Cold War the attention of com mentators has turned to the dynamics of the global system. In this context, the rise of a Pacific Asian sphere within an increasingly tripolar world is of great interest. The core economy within this nascent regional grouping is Japan. It has been suggested that Japan could be about to begin moves towards an overt leadership role within Pacific Asia. A series of internal reforms would be…
The Socio‐economic Problems of Contemporary Japan and the Limits of Political Reform
Writing the City
Reading the Asian Crisis: History, Culture and Institutional Truths
Introduction The financial crisis of 1997-98 in Pacific Asia has been the subject of considerable debate.(1) The attention of political actors and policy analysts has been turned to the immediate issues of financial market instability, economic dislocation and consequent social and political problems. The debate has been politically fraught. At one extreme, advocates of an American-style liberal market system have blamed the political and busines…
Reading the Asian Crisis: History, Culture and Institutional Truths
Development Theory: Learning the Lessons and Moving On
The rise of East Asia
East Asia: Prospects for the New Decade
East Asia: Prospects for the New Decade
An analysis of contemporary dynamics of change within East Asia, cast in terms of the resources of the classical European tradition of social theorizing, suggests that three intermeshing logics of change are shaping the fundamental structural underpinnings of current events: the long-established drive for industrial-capitalist modernity, the now familiar concern for regional interchanges and the very recent unexpected episode of the Asian financi…
Strategic Cultures in the Asia-Pacific Region; by Ken Booth and Russell Trood; London, Macmillan, 1999
East Asia: Emergent regional dynamics
The global system has seen sweeping changes in recent years and this has precipitated a revival of interest in the relationship between Europe and Asia. This book examines the extent and nature of the regional linkages between East Asia and the European Union. Issues discussed include: the reactions and approaches of both regions to the Asian Crisis; postcolonialism and the balance of power in Europe-Asia Relations; trade relations between Europe…
Reading the Ongoing Changes: European Identity
The question of the identity of Europe/Europeans moved into mainstream debate: how can the variety of 'national pasts' be reconciled, how might ideas of Europe/Europeans fit within the range of identities affirmed by Europeans, and can the project present a clear image within the international community? The European Union is the only game in town for Europeans but it is also deficient; reform is made more difficult by the struggle to define the …
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…
Freedom from ‘Britain’: A Comment on Recent Elite-Sponsored Political Cultural Identities
The issue of identity has been widely discussed both in recent social science and in the public sphere; race, ethnicity, gender and nation have all been extensively discussed. A common thread has been the rejection of essentialist arguments that attempt to fix identities in extra-social phenomena in favour of an appreciation of their thoroughgoing social constructedness. Given these sophisticated understandings, how are we to account for the unex…
The Curse of Introversion
Sitting on the dock of the bay: 1 Partial views of change – Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong
The Curse of Introversion
Cutting Scotland Loose: Soft Nationalism and Independence-in-Europe
The reactions of metropolitan political elites to the recent electoral successes of Scottish Nationalists have been broadly negative; arguments for independence have been characterised in domestic United Kingdom terms and thereafter dismissed as voluntaristic, atavistic and indulgent. This is an error: the end of the comfortable certainties of the cold war has revealed a complex pattern of ever-changing structural relationships within which discr…
The other Side of the Coin: Reading the Politics of the 2008 Financial Tsunami
In the spring of 2009, long months after the September 2008 financial tsunami had begun its destructive journey around the financial machineries of the global system, the governing party of the United Kingdom, one of two countries whose financial centres had precipitated all the trouble, is still in place, notwithstanding the almost audible sound of a population tapping its collective foot as it awaits an electoral opportunity to wreak a measure …
Arguments and Actions in Social Theory
This book argues that theorists are located within the social world; exercises in theorizing are both bounded and creative; imagination and creativity build upon the resources of tradition; and such a
Theories of Development
Dr Preston’s book, first published in 1982, presents a critical history of development studies since the Second World War, linking the recent, neo-Marxist, debate with the whole tradition in the field, going back to the work of economists like Arthur Lewis. He identifies a series of ‘schools’ and evaluates their contribution, supplying in each case a careful analysis, informed by the sociology of knowledge, of the work of its leading theorists. H…
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