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Found 2 from your keywords: subject="Asian History"
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Localising power in post-authoritarian Indonesia: a southeast asia perspective
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Hadiz, Vedi R.

This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization—effectively localizing power—as part and parcel of democratization, but also in their efforts to entrench "good governance." Vedi Hadiz shifts the attention to the accompanying tensions and contradictions that define the terms under wh…

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9780804768535
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264 p
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320 HAD l
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A Brief History of the Dynasties of China
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Gascoigne, Bamber

This concise summary of Chinaâ€s 3,500-year-old civilization tells how the warring states of the Zhou period were united under the Qin dynasty, creators of the terracotta army and the Great Wall. It follows the rise of the powerful Han Empire, and the political, military, scientific and cultural achievements of the succeeding dynasties, down to the overthrow of the Qing monarchy in 1912.

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9781841197913
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950 GAS t