A Sociocultural Study and Its Implications on Africa-China Relations
Adams Bodomo
ISBN13: 9781604977905
Date: 06-May-12
"The issues covered in this book are remarkable. The lucidity and ease with which the narrative runs is masterly. Bodomo expresses himself and raises issues with simplicity and analytical candour and offers a picture of Africans in contemporary China ... Sound and mutually beneficial Afro-Chinese relations are matters of strategic interest to both Africans and Chinese. This book provides an open window on to these realities."
- Kwesi Kwaa Prah, Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS)
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Aesthetics and Identity in the Royal X-Group Tombs at Qustul and Ballana
Rachael J. Dann
ISBN13: 9781604976236
Date: 28-Sep-09
This book offers the first interpretation of social life at these key sites, and proposes a series of innovative, theoretically informed frames for exploring the significance of the material remains found there. In doing so, it sheds new light on a culture that is of considerable archaeological and historical importance.
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An Interdisciplinary Study of the Taiping and Tonghak Rebellions in a Global Context
Hong Beom Rhee
ISBN13: 9781934043424
Date: 28-Aug-07
This groundbreaking book re-examines the Taiping and the Tonghak movements in nineteenth-century Asia using a much wider range of sources than have been used by scholars in the past.
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Intercommunal Relations on the Periphery of the Ottoman Empire
Hirmis Aboona
ISBN13: 9781604975833
Date: 28-Dec-08
This work, through its rich depictions of tribal and religious diversity within Mesopotamia, steps away from the age-old oversimplified rubric of an “Arab Muslim” Middle East, and into the cultural mosaic that is more representative of the region.
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Investigating the Death of the Fifth Earl of Derby
Leo Daugherty
ISBN13: 9781604977370
Date: 18-May-11
This book is the first to survey and analyze the nearly 420-year-old documentary record relating to the death of Lord Derby, including all relevant original manuscripts, some of which have remained unprinted until now. This book will be of interest to all readers interested in Elizabethan history, literature, and politics.
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Anthony E. Clark
ISBN13: 9781604975611
Date: 17-Nov-08
Ban Gu’s contribution to China’s historiographical and philosophical traditions is vast, and has largely influenced how history and literature have been produced since his death. In this first book-length critical study, Anthony Clark provides both biographical and historical information about Ban Gu and his political context, while also reflecting on how that context formed his portrayal of history.
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Ian Chambers
ISBN13: 9781934043318
Date: 31-Dec-06
This book makes a distinctive contribution to our knowledge of British policy towards Ireland showing originality in exploring the extent to which the opinions of the fathers were visited upon the sons with abundant evidence of scholarship. Read More..
The Contributions of a Mathematician, Educator, Engineer, and Statesman
Margaret Bradley
ISBN13: 9781604977516
Date: 28-Jan-12
This is the first published study of Charles Dupin and his entire life’s work. It illuminates his work and contribution in so many spheres, as well as his contacts with other scientists and educators. It showcases Dupin’s important contributions during a period of tremendous changes in France.
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Disaphol Chansiri
ISBN13: 9781934043745
Date: 28-Feb-08
The most current in-depth study on the Chinese in Thailand, this is a critical addition for all collections in Asian Studies as well as Ethnic and Immigrant Studies.
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Diffusions and Concentrations of the British New Wave Chinese Immigration
Wai-ki E. Luk
ISBN13: 9781934043868
Date: 28-Mar-08
This is the first scholarly book to closely explore Chinese immigration to Britain and its effects on the British urban landscape, beginning with the 1980s.
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The Relationship Between Collective Memory and the Media
Aimee Dawis
ISBN13: 9781604976069
Date: 28-May-09
Clearly written and theoretically interesting, this subject of this book will stand as one of the most important questions in media ethnography. This book delivers a fascinating account of what it means to be "Chinese" in a global media age.
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Concepts, Cases and Challenges
Francisca Norales
ISBN13: 9780977356737
Date: 01-Jan-06
This collection of essays shows that problems of race relations and crime stem from cross-cultural communication problems.
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Racheline Barda
ISBN13: 9781604977639
Date: 18-Jun-11
An important contribution to the research on contemporary Australian society as well as diaspora and Jewish studies, this book examines a topic that has rarely been reported on or studied. It is the first comprehensive study on the immigration and integration of Egyptian-Jewish people into Australian society.
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Michael Ackland
ISBN13: 9781604978100
Date: 28-Apr-12
In this first critical study of Murray Bail, author Michael Ackland maps out the coordinates and sheds invaluable light on the intellectual labyrinth afforded by his novels. He outlines deftly the literary and artistic heritages that influenced Bail’s early thought, then traces key preoccupations in his fiction and non-fiction, as well as provides authoritative interpretations of individual works.
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Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years
Lingchei Letty Chen
ISBN13: 9781604979923
Date: 06-Feb-20
Letty Chen’s book is a timely intervention with the prevailing narrative of the Chinese Dream. The Great Leap Backward is a compelling reference for anyone interested in memory studies, Chinese and comparative literature, and cultural and political history.” —David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
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Paulos Milkias
ISBN13: 9781934043202
Date: 31-Dec-06
A rare inside look––a probing mirror-image analysis by one of the members of the Ethiopian intelligentsia of the postwar years and about their role in the revolutionary upheavals during the past decades.
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Eli Alberts
ISBN13: 9781934043141
Date: 28-Feb-07
The first book to furnish a history—part cultural, part political, and part religious—of contacts between the Chinese state and autochthonous peoples (identified since the 11th century as Yao people) in what is now South China.
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Negotiating Identities in a Global World
Nobuko Adachi
ISBN13: 9781604976861
Date: 28-Apr-10
While previous studies have focused on a few specific and well-known cases, this book examines Japanese transnationalism from a broader perspective, including Japanese nationals living overseas permanently or temporarily, and Europeans of Japanese ancestry who have recently rediscovered their Japanese roots. Specialists from many areas will be drawn to this work on the Nikkei experience and transnational culture and economy.
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The Impact of Japanese Piracy in the 16th Century
Ivy Maria Lim
ISBN13: 9781604977271
Date: 28-Dec-10
Sixteenth-century China experienced an economic transformation which saw the spread of commercialization and a consumerist material culture that pervaded all aspects of life. As society began to respond to the economic transformation, the ideology and culture of patriarchal descent-line ethics, hitherto an urban, literati trend, began to find resonance among up-and-coming literati families within rural communities. At the same time, the middle decades of the sixteenth century saw the growing incidence of Japanese “wokou” piracy along the southeastern coast of China. This is the first study that takes the innovative and unique approach of linking the rise of lineage organization in Haining, Zhejiang province, to wokou activity.
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Michael U. Mbanaso and Chima J. Korieh
ISBN13: 9781604976694
Date: 18-Jan-10
This book explores the various facets of the relationship between minorities and the state across Africa. The motivation for this collection lies in the growing need to understand the often tenuous relationship between minorities and the state. Through this collection, the editors and contributors present thoughtful ways for understanding forms of hegemony imposed by dominant groups in relational, national, and regional experiences.
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The Baltic German Literary Contribution in the 1780s and 1790s
Andrew Blumbergs
ISBN13: 9781604975567
Date: 28-Dec-08
In the second half of the eighteenth century, an intellectual discourse developed in Livonia which shed light on the disastrous social conditions of the indigenous population. This book examines the premise that the resulting “nationalization” of the Latvians occurred in the 1780s and 1790s as a result of a German Enlightenment in Livonia.
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The Personal Governance of Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon (Lord Stanmore)
Colin Newbury
ISBN13: 9781604976670
Date: 28-Jan-10
This study of an icon in imperial historiography is both innovative and revisionist. It treats the life of a man whose career covered six dependencies at different stages of political development as a case study in imperial clientage in ways that challenge the stereotypes of “despotic” power in the Victorian colonies. With few exceptions, there are no comparable books dealing with crown colony governorships in this manner.
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Being Russian in Israel
Elana Gomel
ISBN13: 9781604975987
Date: 28-Feb-09
Written by Elana Gomel, senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, this is an original and exciting investigation of the Russian community in Israel. It analyzes the narratives through which Russian Jewry defines itself and connects them to the legacy of Soviet history.
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The Former Shu Regime
Hongjie Wang
ISBN13: 9781604977646
Date: 18-Jun-11
This book sheds much light on the complicated national politics and intricate interstate relations of the divided tenth-century China. It examines how Wang Jian, a military governor of Tang, rose to power from obscurity in the chaotic late ninth century and founded an empire in what is today’s Sichuan province in the early tenth century.
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Perspectives on the Peace Process
Moises Salinas and Hazza Abu Rabi
ISBN13: 9781604976540
Date: 28-Dec-09
With essays by the world's top academics (including Professor Herbert Kelman from Harvard University, Professor Naomi Chazan from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Dr. Sami Adwan from Bethlehem University), this volume makes a substantial contribution to scholarship on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by its application of academic thinking to the solution for one of the most serious conflicts of our time.
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Michael S. Laver
ISBN13: 9781604977387
Date: 31-Jan-11
This book translates and illuminates the specific machinery of Japan’s foreign relations, especially as it pertained to European trade and Christianity. In so doing, this study will situate the edicts––which are largely taken for granted, even though little has been studied––in Japan’s early modern history.
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Alison M. Moore
ISBN13: 9781604978223
Date: 28-Nov-12
"Provides an insightful overview of the kind of scholarship of gender and sexuality that has emerged in the last decade, and stands as an invaluable resource for historians." – Canadian Journal of History
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A Comparative Case Study of Australia and the United Kingdom
Chia-Mei Jane Coughlan
ISBN13: 9781604975697
Date: 28-Nov-08
The political significance of China (PRC) in the world has greatly increased in the past two decades. The book specifically examines how the macro contexts of economics and politics contribute to the process of the construction of Chinese studies in universities, as well as the ways in which social phenomena at the departmental level play a part in such a process.
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Cultural Negotiations from Colonialism to Cyberspace
Rohit Chopra
ISBN13: 9781604975673
Date: 28-Dec-08
Since the introduction of Western science and technology under colonial rule in the eighteenth century, science and technology have been used as instruments to transform Indian society. This groundbreaking book examines the phenomenon of “technocultural Hindu nationalism” or the use of the internet by global Indian communities for the promotion of Hindu nationalist ideologies.
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Genocide and the Politics of Memory
Chima Korieh
ISBN13: 9781604978117
Date: 28-May-12
Through careful analysis of the experiences of those who witnessed the war and other sources, this book reveals neglected aspects of the Biafra war described as the first black on black genocide in post-colonial Africa.
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American Involvement in East Asia from 1898 to the Vietnam War
F. Hilary Conroy, Francis Conroy and Sophie Quinn-Judge
ISBN13: 9781934043882
Date: 28-Mar-08
West Across the Pacific is both a contribution to peace research in history and to a foreign policy guided modestly by empiricism and realism as the most reliable method.
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