Tag: Overseas

Free Download Andrew Yeo, "Great Power Competition and Overseas Bases: Chinese, Russian, and American Force Posture in the Twenty-First Century"
English | ISBN: 0815740700 | 2024 | 236 pages | PDF | 6 MB
What challenges and risks do Chinese and Russian bases pose to the United States’ military strategy? How do the military postures of great powers interact and with what consequences for regional and global security? This book examines the emerging dynamics of geostrategic competition for overseas military bases and base access. The comparative framework adopted in this volume examines how the geopolitical interests of the United States, China, and Russia and their respective underlying force posture interact in different regions including the Indo-Pacific, Europe, sub-Sahara Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and the Arctic Circle. By exploring the security, political economic, and domestic political dynamics of specific regions, the contributors to this volume reveal varied motivations for overseas military bases and base access among great powers. With analysis on the particular dynamics of overseas bases in major regional theaters, the book offers a valuable window into the nature and scope of the broader "great power competition" underway in the twenty-first century.

Free Download A.J.R. Russell-Wood, "Local Government in European Overseas Empires, 1450-1800: Part II"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138361178, 1138361240 | EPUB | pages: 424 | 3.1 mb
First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch East and West India Companies. In an exercise in compensatory history, the book examines government of empire not from the metropolitan perspective but at the local level, where government was most likely to impact on the everyday lives of both persons of European birth and indigenous peoples. The first part examines the institutional framework of local and regional government at the municipal, parish and county levels, extending this to include law and order, social welfare and education. The second part examines the social dimension of local government: governance in pluricultural societies; elite formation; creolization; representation and oligarchies; oversight, and negotiated authority. The work includes a comprehensive introduction, together with an extensive bibliography and a detailed index.

Free Download A.J.R. Russell-Wood, "Local Government in European Overseas Empires, 1450-1800: Part II"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138361178, 1138361240 | EPUB | pages: 424 | 3.1 mb
First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch East and West India Companies. In an exercise in compensatory history, the book examines government of empire not from the metropolitan perspective but at the local level, where government was most likely to impact on the everyday lives of both persons of European birth and indigenous peoples. The first part examines the institutional framework of local and regional government at the municipal, parish and county levels, extending this to include law and order, social welfare and education. The second part examines the social dimension of local government: governance in pluricultural societies; elite formation; creolization; representation and oligarchies; oversight, and negotiated authority. The work includes a comprehensive introduction, together with an extensive bibliography and a detailed index.

Free Download V. J. Varghese, "Dreaming Mobility and Buying Vulnerability: Overseas Recruitment Practices in India"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415687659, 1138660043 | PDF | pages: 252 | 10.3 mb
In the alarming contemporary context of widespread corruption and fraudulence in the overseas labour recruitment system in India, this book attempts to understand the institution of emigration governance and recruitment practices in the country with a focus on the unskilled and semi-skilled sectors. It brings together the results of research in the major emigration hubs of India with the aid of quantitative and qualitative tools, drawing from all the major stakeholders ―intending emigrants, recruiting agents, return emigrants, emigrant households, Protector of Emigrants, foreign employers, foreign recruiting agents, Indian missions and emigrant workers at the destination countries.

Free Download Clyde E Kimball, "A Diary Of My Work Overseas"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1163139262, 1164485881 | EPUB | pages: 200 | 0.4 mb
A Diary Of My Work Overseas is a memoir written by Clyde E. Kimball that details his experiences working abroad. The book is written in diary format, chronicling Kimball’s travels and work in various countries around the world. Kimball shares his observations and reflections on different cultures and customs, as well as his challenges and successes in his work as a consultant. The book offers a unique perspective on international business and the global economy, as well as insights into the personal growth and development that can come from working in a foreign country. Overall, A Diary Of My Work Overseas is a fascinating and informative read for anyone interested in international work and travel.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Free Download Nalini Natarajan, "Atlantic Gandhi: The Mahatma Overseas"
English | ISBN: 8132109686 | 2013 | 264 pages | EPUB | 723 KB
Using the frames of diaspora theory, post-colonial discourse theory and the recent Atlantic turn in studies of resistance, this book brings into relief Gandhi′s experience as a traveler moving from a classic colony, India, to the plantation and mining society of South Africa.