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Howard Yuen Fung Choy - Remapping the Past; Fictions of History in Deng's China.jpg
The most prominent literary phenomenon in the 1980s and 1990s in China, historical fiction, has never been systematically surveyed in Anglophone scholarship. This is the first investigation into how, by rewriting the past, writers of Deng Xiaoping's reform era ...
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Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the relationship between international human rights and domestic social justice advocacy in the United States, including the U.S. government's ambivalent relationship with the international human rights ...
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The Empowering Impulse is a significant contribution to the historiography of Barbados and will inform discourses on Barbadian nationalism. In Barbados, as elsewhere in the Caribbean, national identity historically emerged in response to economic, political and ...
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Hugh A. Taylor is one of the most important thinkers in the English-speaking world of archives. A retired civil servant and archival educator, he was named to the prestigious Order of Canada, his nation's highest civilian award. The fifteen essays in this volume are ...
Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer - Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America (2010).jpg
This book catapults the study of women's political representation to a new level. Schwindt-Bayer's theory links formal, descriptive, substantive and symbolic representation whereas previous research generally considered these four types of representation ...
Peter Sloterdijk - Theory of the Post-War Periods; Observations on Franco-German relations since 1945 (2008).jpg
A new cultural-theoretical approach is used to develop a philosophy to overcome post-war traumata, or the traumatization effects that affect entire national cultures. The new aspect is the book s study of both France and Germany in its discussion of post-war issues. The ...
Pierre Bourdieu - Sketch for a Self-Analysis (2008).jpg
Over the past four decades, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died in 2002, he was considered to be the most influential sociologist in the world and a thinker on a par with ...
Hidetaka Yoshimatsu - The Political Economy of Regionalism in East Asia; Integrative Explanation for Dynamics and Challenges (2008).jpg
Since the mid 1990s, East Asian states have developed an increasing interest in creating regional cooperation. The Political Economy of Regionalism in East Asia explores this trend and looks at how it is explained in terms of the major theoretical perspectives of ...
Mordechai Nisan - The Conscience of Lebanon; A Political Biography of Etienne Sakr (2003).jpg
This work is a combination of an account of a most captivating Lebanese personality with a penetrating analysis of the historical and religious contours of Lebanon. Mordechai Nisan spent much time with Etienne Sakr between 2000 and 2001. Set within the context of the ...
Sharon Lamb - New Versions of Victims; Feminists Struggle With the Concept (1999).jpg
It is increasingly difficult to use the word "victim" these days without facing either ridicule for "crying victim" or criticism for supposed harshness toward those traumatized. Some deny the possibility of "recovering" repressed memories of abuse, or consider date ...
Lynn T. White - Political Booms; Local Money and Power in Taiwan.jpg
Why have Taiwan, rich parts of China, and Thailand boomed famously, while the Philippines has long remained stagnant both economically and politically? Do booms abet democracy? Does the rise of middle classes promise future liberalization? Why has Philippine democracy ...
Philip P. Pan - Out of Mao's Shadow; The Struggle for the Soul of a New China (2008).jpg
More than fifteen years after the fall of the Soviet Union, China is engaged in the largest experiment in authoritarianism in the world. By launching market reforms while continuing to restrict political freedom, the Chinese Communist Party has challenged the Western ...
Abdoulaye Saine - The Paradox of Third-Wave Democratization in Africa; The Gambia Under the AFPRC-APRC Rule.jpg
This book is about the dilemma(s) of "third-wave democratization" in Africa. It teases out the general proposition that while the market is a necessary ingredient for development, it is not itself a sufficient condition for prosperity. Using a counterexample, it ...
Benjamin Talton - Politics of Social Change in Ghana; The Konkomba Struggle for Political Equality (2010).jpg
With Ghana’s colonial and postcolonial politics as a backdrop, this book explores the ways in which historically marginalized communities have defined and redefined themselves to protect their interests and compete with neighboring ethnic groups politically and ...
J P Singh - International Cultural Policies and Power (2010).jpg
Political scientists by and large ignore cultural industries and technologies whereas they are prominent in other disciplines. This book provides insights from local, societal, national, and international levels in understanding cultural industries, ...
David Harris - From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure; The Effects of Gramscianism on Cultural Studies (1993).jpg
From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure artises from reading and teaching Gramscian work in cultural studies, education, media studies, leisure and politics over the last twenty years. It argues that Gramscian work is undoubtedly powerful and persuasive. Indeed ...
Peter Mclaren - The Politics of Liberation; Paths from Freire (1994).jpg
This book consists of a collection of original essays on the work of Paulo Freire, based on diverse experiences of First and Third world contexts. All of authors argue that Paulo Freire is the cornerstone upon which a new vision and strategies of liberation can be built. The ...
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Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the ...
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The human life course is filled with and subject to a wide range of personal difficulties, many of which are shared by others. Social Problems across the Life Course offers accessible readings that examine the societal construction of social problems out of the personal ...
Carl Mitcham - Encyclopedia of Science Technology and Ethics Vol 1- 4 (2005).jpg
The set opens with eight introductory essays that provide an overview of key interdisciplinary ideas. The encyclopedia portion includes about 125 biographical entries in addition to topical entries. All conclude with cross-references and up-to-date ...
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Covering 1300 scientists (including more than 70 pioneering female scientists) from 38 countries, this work builds on the authors' Concise Dictionary of Scientists (Chambers/Cambridge Univ., 1989), now out of print. Older articles have been revised, updated, and ...
Donald A. McKenzie - Myths of China and Japan (1923).jpg
This volume deals with the myths of China and Japan, and it is shown that these throw light on the origin and growth of civilization and the widespread dissemination of complex ideas associated with certain modes of life.The Dawn of Civilization - Chinese Dragon Lore - Tree, ...
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The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics is established as the leading reference work in the field. The second edition will retain many individual classic essays of enduring importance from its predecessor and include one thousand new or heavily revised articles. ...
