<p>Surveys the culture and history of ancient Egypt, discusses its arts, language, literature, religious beliefs, and customs, and briefly looks at Roman and Christian Egypt</p>

Introduction To Ancient Egypt (ICON EDITIONS)

History

James, Jeffrey

Middle East

Westview Press

Industrialization in Africa has relied heavily on state institutions of various kinds and on the inflow of foreign capital, especially foreign aid. With particular reference to technology and on the basis of a wide range of case studies, this book explains how these features have jointly contributed not only to the many cases of failure in the public sector, but also to a number of exceptional cases that can be regarded as success stories.

The State, Technology and Industrialization in Africa

Business & Money

Economics

Jeffrey (Professor of Development James

This volume is concerned with the complexities of the relationship between globalization and different groups of consumers in developing countries. Globalization, it is argued, can yield frustration and disappointment as well as welfare gains for consumers; it may, but does not necessarily, displace local products and via the rapid recent expansion of the mass media, it offers policymakers new opportunities to deal with acute social problems.

Consumption, Globalization and Development

Marketing & Sales

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book contends that large numbers in the Third World will become reliant on traditional rural technologies over the next thirty to forty years. Because of its emphasis on improving the typically low productivity of these technologies, the appropriate technology constitutes an essential part of any adequate policy response to this growing problem. But because this approach neglects a range of issues - such as the heterogeneity of poverty and dynamic intersectoral linkages - that determine the impact of improved technologies on the poor, it is not a sufficient response. The author is concerned therefore to advocate a broader analytic framework than is normally associated with the appropriate technology movement. On this extended basis a number of important conclusions for policy are drawn at the micro, meso and macro levels of intervention. Jeffrey James is author of "The Transition to Egalitarian Development" with Keith Griffin and "Consumer Choice in the Third World".

Improving Traditional Rural Technologies

UNKNO

<p>This book is the outcome of a Development Studies Association Workshop on Technology that we convened in Queen Elizabeth House in March 1980. In the 1960s and 1970s most research on technology in poor countries was directed at the question of the labour or capital intensity of production technique (sometimes described as the 'neo-classical' question). The collection of essays raises questions as much as it provides answers: but in so doing it provides a comprehensive introduction to the major new topics which are of substantial concern to those working on issues of technology and development.</p>

The Economics Of New Technology In Developing Countries

Stewart, Frances

Routledge

Based on original research conducted for the ILO the book employs a wide variety of approaches and and covers a number of developing countries around the world, including Tanzania, India, Argentina and Brazil. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of development studies, business studies, economics, geography, public enterprise, and professionals.

The Technological Behaviour of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries

Attempts to bring the benefits of information technology in the form of the internet to developing countries have, to date, foundered on the belief that this requires the beneficiaries to access the technology directly. As a result, the perceived huge benefits of such an enterprise have often failed to materialise.This original contribution to the debate on developing countries and IT suggests that the benefits of the internet can be passed on via an intermediary. That is, what matters is not the internet itself, rather its ability to provide information that can be made relevant and useful locally. Intermediaries are arguably more likely to provide such information and hence more likely to promote what Amartya Sen called individual 'functionings', for example the ability to be free of illness.Jeffrey James is an impressive servant to the discipline of development studies, here he brings together previously fragmented literatures to break new ground in internet intermediation. Information Technology and Development will interest development economists and practitioners in equal amounts.

Information Technology and Development: A New Paradigm for Delivering the Internet to Rural Areas in Developing Countries (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

Computers & Technology

Digital Interactions in Developing Countries (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development. In this timely book he undertakes a methodological critique of prominent topics in the debate. Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions, the book looks not only at the digital divide but also at issues such as digital preparedness, leapfrogging and low-cost computers. James also raises important issues which have been largely neglected in the literature, such as the implications for poverty in developing countries and the macroeconomics of mobile phones. The book argues that benefits from IT are captured in a different form in developing as opposed to developed countries. In the latter, gains come from technology ownership and use, whereas in the former, benefits cannot be captured as much in this way because ownership is more limited. Interestingly, the author shows that developing countries have responded to this distinction with a series of local innovations which are often low-cost and pro-poor. This finding contradicts the widely held view that poor countries are unable to generate major innovations within their own borders. Accessible and clearly written, this book will be of great interest to scholars of development economics and development studies, and is relevant to both policy-makers and academics.

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After more than 200 years of menacing Viking attacks, England fi nally fell under Danish control in 1016. While earlier kings of Wessex had pushed back the tide of Danish encroachment, wave after wave of incursions from powerful Scandinavian raiders – such as fierce Thorkill ‘the tall’, wily Olaf Tryggvason and the redoubtable Swein Forkbeard – caused Aethelred II’s English forces to eventually buckle under the mounting pressure. Though losing and then regaining his kingdom through force of arms makes him one of only two English monarchs ever to do so, Aethelred’s military reputation has, as a resultof bias, become irrevocably tarnished. And no less misunderstood is his son Edmund (Ironside), whose energetic campaign against Cnut in 1016 would decide England’s fate.An Onslaught of Spears comprehensively chronicles the events in England from the late eighth century to Cnut’s victory in 1016. Linking the Danish invasion to the Norman conquest that took place just fifty years later and challenging the myth of Aethelred ‘the Unready’, Jeffrey James’s military history of this turbulent period reveals the true nature of England’s armies and her kings.

An Onslaught of Spears: The Danish Conquest of England

Europe

The History Press

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Introduction To Ancient Egypt (ICON EDITIONS)

The State, Technology and Industrialization in Africa

Consumption, Globalization and Development

Improving Traditional Rural Technologies

The Economics Of New Technology In Developing Countries

The Technological Behaviour of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries

Information Technology and Development: A New Paradigm for Delivering the Internet to Rural Areas in Developing Countries (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

Information Technology and Development: A New Paradigm for Delivering the Internet to Rural Areas in Developing Countries (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

Digital Interactions in Developing Countries (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

An Onslaught of Spears: The Danish Conquest of England