Crude Existence

Kristin Reed

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• After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natu... Lees meer

The Politics of Knowledge

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• The usefulness and political implications of Area Studies programs are currently debated within the Academy and the Administration, where they are oft... Lees meer

Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Gail Hershatter

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• This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by ... Lees meer

Dynamics of Regulatory Change

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• Critics of globalization claim that economic liberalization leads to a lowering of regulatory standards. As capital and corporations move more freely ... Lees meer

National Insecurity and Human Rights

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• Human rights is all too often the first casualty of national insecurity. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rig... Lees meer

America and the Misshaping of a New World Order

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• The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears... Lees meer

Zainichi (Koreans in Japan)

John Lie

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• This book traces the origins and transformations of a people-the Zainichi , or Koreans "residing in Japan." Using a wide range of arguments and eviden... Lees meer

Modern Peoplehood

John Lie

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• In modern states, John Lie argues, ideas of race, ethnicity, and nationality can be subsumed under the rubric of "peoplehood." He argues indeed, that ... Lees meer

Hard Work, Hard Times

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• The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obviou... Lees meer

Diaspora Without Homeland

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• More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today--the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. T... Lees meer

Reinventing Britain

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• Contrary to popular myth, Britain does have a constitution, one that is uncodified and commanded little political interest for most of the twentieth c... Lees meer

Chinese Religiosities

Yang Mayfair Mei Hui

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• The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous reviva... Lees meer

International Migration and Human Rights

Samuel Martinez

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• A multidisciplinary group of scholars examines how the actions of the United States as a global leader are worsening pressures on people worldwide to ... Lees meer

Engaging Contradictions

Charles R Hale

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• Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in ... Lees meer

Public Health in East and Southeast Asia

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• Public Health in East and Southeast Asia presents an overview of the state of public health across this vast region and considers the challenges and p... Lees meer

Mirrors and Echoes

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• Throughout Spain's tumultuous twentieth century, women writers produced a dazzling variety of novels, popular theater, and poetry. Their work both ref... Lees meer