Persistenze e mutamento : lezioni e appunti di storia moderna / Augusto Placanica

• Record Nr.: UNISA990000853560203316
• Autore: PLACANICA, Augusto
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cava dei Tirreni : Avagliano, 1995-
• Descrizione fisica: volumi ; 22 cm
• Collana: Segnature ; 3 ...
• Disciplina: 909.08
• Soggetti: Storia moderna
• Collocazione: X.2.B. 2327/(Varie Coll. 1070/, Testi)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Free Markets and Food Riots [[electronic resource] ] : The Politics of Global Adjustment

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910829959003321
• Autore: Walton John K
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008
• ISBN: 1-281-84075-0; 9786611840754; 0-470-71296-1; 0-470-71271-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 p.)
• Collana: Studies in urban and social change Free markets & food riots
• Altri autori (Persone): SeddonDavid
• Disciplina: 303.4; 339.5/09172/4
• Soggetti: Structural adjustment (Economic policy); Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - 1971-1990 - Developing countries; Free trade - 1990- - Developing countries; Social conflict - Developing countries; Capitalism - Developing countries; Post-communism - Europe, Eastern; Economic history; Business & Economics; Economic History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Free Markets & Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; 1 Global Adjustment; 2 Food Riots Past and Present; Part II Case Studies; 3 Fighting for Survival: Women's Responses to Austerity Programs; 4 Latin America: Popular Protest and the State; 5 Economic Adjustment and Democratization in Africa; 6 The Middle East and North Africa; 7 The Asian Debt Crisis: Structural Adjustment and Popular Protest in India; 8 Explaining Sri Lanka's Exceptionalism: Popular Responses to Welfarism and the "Open Economy"; 9 The Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern EuropePart III Conclusion; 10 Debt Crisis and Democratic Transition; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic ""reform"" and ""adjustment"". Explores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the 'IMF Riots' that have affected so many debtor nations since the mid-1970sArgues that modern austerity protests, like the class