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Title:
Developing cultures : case studies / edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Peter L. Berger.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
xxvii, 520 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Progress--Case studies.
Social change--Case studies.
Acculturation--Case studies.
Cultural lag--Case studies.
Economic development.--Case studies.
Social values--Case studies.
Developing countries.--Case studies.
Other Authors:
Harrison, Lawrence E.
Berger, Peter L.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Dag Blanck, Thorleif Pettersson. Strong governance and civic participation: some notes on the cultural dimension of the Swedish model / Peter L. Berger -- PART I. AFRICA -- Explaining Botswana's success / Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. -- Culture and development: questions from South Africa / Ann Bernstein -- Culture of development in a southwestern Nigerian town / Elisha P. Renne -- PART II. CONFUCIAN COUNTRIES -- China's cultural renaissance / Tu Weiming -- Japanese culture and postwar economic growth / Yoshihara Kunio -- Values and development in Singapore / Chua Beng-Huat -- Market development, political change, and Taiwanese cultures / Robert P. Weller -- PART III. INDIA -- India: how a rich nation became poor and will be rich again / Gurcharan Das -- PART IV. ISLAM -- Egypt as a model of development for the world of Islam / Bassam Tibi -- Cultural matters and developmental dilemmas in Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner -- Two halves did not make a whole: Pakistan before and after Bangladesh / F.S. Aijazuddin, with a response by Adil Najam -- Turkey: torn between two civilizations / Yilmaz Esmer -- PART V. LATIN AMERICA -- The political values of development: the case of Argentina / Mariano Grondona -- Importance of culture: the Brazilian case / Maria Lucia Victor Barbosa -- Economic development and the evolution of national culture: the case of Chile / David E. Hojman -- Mexico: the camel and the needle / Miguel Basáñez -- Productive values and poverty in Venezuela / Luis Ugalde -- PART VI. ORTHODOX / EASTERN EUROPE -- Which past matters? Culture and economic development in Eastern Europe after 1989 / Janos Matyas Kovacs -- Timeless identity versus another final modernity: identity master myth and social change in Georgia / Irakli Chkonia -- Tale of two regions: Novgorod and Pskov as models of symbolic development / Nicolai N. Petro -- Cultural change and continuity in the transition from communism: the Russian case / Archie Brown -- PART VII. THE WEST -- Scene from a fast-food restaurant: signs of the times in black America and the path beyond / John McWhorter -- Ireland as the Celtic tiger: how did it happen? / Dick Spring -- Long and winding road: the Italian path to modernization / Matteo B. Marini -- Culture and the pursuit of success: the case of Québec in the twentieth century / Daniel Latouche -- Spanish transition: 1975-82 / Carlos Alberto Montaner -- Strong governance and civic participation: some notes on the cultural dimension of the Swedish model / Dag Blanck, Thorleif Pettersson.
ISBN:
9780415952804 (pb : alk. paper)
0415952808 (pb : alk. paper)
9780415952798 (hb : alk. paper)
0415952794 (hb : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)60419476
LCCN:
2005014232
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

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