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  • AMERICA’S COLD WAR AGAINST CHINA
    PETER NOLAN
    This book discusses how the USA has launched a new cold war against China. Showing how this New Cold War can only be fully understood by analysing the long-run history of the East and the West, and the fundamental differences between the Old and the New Cold Wars, this book outlines how the New Cold War focuses on issues connected with China’s territorial integrity: Xinjiang, t...

    $1,240.00

  • MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN EUROPE
    BRIMBLECOMBE NEIL / PETER NOLAN
    Worldwide, mental health problems are set to become the second greatest threat to health by the end of the next decade. The European Union has identified mental health problems as a growing concern, although there is great variation within EU countries with respect to patient numbers and the range of facilities available to them. Historically, EU mental healthcare services have...

    $1,060.00

  • CHINA IN THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS
    PETER NOLAN
    The widely held view of the Asian Financial Crisis is that it had no substantial impact on China. In fact, the country was far more vulnerable than most people realized, due to the high possibility of financial contagion entering the system from Hong Kong through Guangdong province. This book analyzes the severe policy challenge that it presented for China’s leaders. The crisis...

    $1,100.00

  • FINANCE AND THE REAL ECONOMY
    PETER NOLAN
    The different approach taken by China and the West towards finance and the real economy rests upon philosophical foundations that have diverged fundamentally since the Ancient World. Since the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997–98 a tremendous transformation has taken place in the financial systems in both China and the West. China has persisted steadily with reform of its financia...

    $1,200.00

  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COLLECTIVE FARMS
    PETER NOLAN
    This book examines the case for and against collective farms in developing countries. Basing his account on a careful analysis of China's rural economy from the 1950s to the 1980s, the author argues that collective farms have serious shortcomings and that they are not the most suitable institutional form for rural economic development in poor count ...

    $860.00

  • CHINA AND THE WEST
    PETER NOLAN
    Capitalist globalisation since the 1980s has produced immense benefits in terms of technical progress, poverty reduction and welfare improvement. However, it has been accompanied by profound contradictions, including ecological destruction, global warming, inequality, concentration of business power, and financial instability. Regulation of global political economy in the inter...

    $1,420.00

  • THE STORY OF NURSING IN BRITISH MENTAL HOSPITALS
    NIALL MCCRAE / PETER NOLAN
    From their beginnings as the asylum attendants of the 19th century, mental health nurses have come a long way. This comprehensive volume is the first book in over twenty years to explore the history of mental health nursing, and during this period the landscape has transformed as the large institutions have been replaced by services in the community. McCrae and Nolan examine ho...

    $1,420.00

  • UNDERSTANDING CHINA
    PETER NOLAN
    If the West wishes to understand China better, it needs to appreciate the depth of thought and range of debate that is taking place within the Chinese political system. China is entering a new and complicated phase in its development. From a minnow in the 1970s it has become a mighty player on the global stage. It is likely that its role in the global economy and international ...

    $1,420.00

  • CHINESE FIRMS, GLOBAL FIRMS
    PETER NOLAN
    China has achieved remarkable, sustained economic growth under the policies of ‘reform and opening up’ put into place since the late 1970s. China’s industrial policies have nurtured a large group of firms with high profits and a high market capitalisation. However, few people in the West can name a single Chinese firm. During the modern era of capitalist globalisation firms fro...

    $1,460.00

  • CHINA, HONG KONG AND THE WEST
    PETER NOLAN
    This book analyses Hong Kong’s history from a long-run perspective. It examines Britain’s relationship with the city in the context of Hong Kong’s location within the Pearl River Delta and its strategic position within East Asia. Britain’s interaction with Hong Kong commenced in the 1830s. Britain was at the zenith of its economic, political, cultural and military power, while ...

    $1,240.00