Focusing mainly on the Mappila Muslim trading family of the Arackal Ali Rajas, this book throws light on the repercussions of European commercial expansion on the traditional socio-political relations in the South Indian kigdom of Cannanore during the early-modern period

This book presents results of a cross-national research project on self-employment in eleven advanced economies and demonstrates how and why the practice is reemerging in modern societies. While traditional forms of self-employment, such as skilled crafts work and shop keeping, are in decline,...

Beginning in the 1930s and moving into the post millennium, Newton provides a historical analysis of policies invoked, and practices undertaken as the Service attempted to assist white Britons in understanding the impact of African-Caribbeans, and their assimilation into constructs of...

Intro -- Retailing in a SCM-Perspective -- Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Retailing in the context of IT and distribution -- Distribution, marketing channels and retailing -- Technology and Information technology -- Consequences of IT for managing retail distribution -- Applying IT...

Perspectives on Strategic Risk Management -- Table of Contents -- Introduction/Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 Performance Effects of Risk Management -- Introduction -- Global Derivatives -- Capital Structure and Risk Management -- Hypotheses -- Methodology -- Data and Measures --...

Intro -- Mediating Globalization: Domestic Institutions and Industrial Policies in the United States and Britain -- Contents -- Part One The Argument -- 1. Globalization and Convergence? The Domestic Impact of Globalization -- 2. Globalization, Domestic Institutions, and Industrial Strategies --...

Intro -- MILL GIRLS AND STRANGERS -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Transitions in the City: Independent Female Migration, 1850-1881 -- Single Female Migrants in Historical Perspectives -- 2. Preston: The Unseen Migrants -- Migrants and Domestic Service in Preston -- The...

Free trade has become a highly politicized term, but its origins, historical context, and application to policy decisions have been largely overlooked. This book examines the relationship between liberal political economy and the changing conception of empire in the eighteenth century,...

Intro -- HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY: SPENDING REVIEW 2010 (EDITED AND ABRIDGED) -- HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY: SPENDING REVIEW 2010 (EDITED AND ABRIDGED) -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- Growth -- Fairness -- Reform -- DEFENCE AND...