American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national ethos.
This book presents corresponding images and essays of fifty early modern artefacts of encounters between European explorers and indigenous peoples, addressing relationships and material exchanges that extend beyond this framework to encompass diverse interactions across early modern societies.
Chinese leaders have long been fascinated by the United States, but have often chosen to demonize America for perceived cultural and military imperialism.
This book analyzes and summarizes the narrative motifs of Chinese mythology, before tracing their material and cultural elements using the new classification of Big Tradition and Small Tradition theories of culture from the field of literary anthropology, as well as related interdisciplinary theories from literary anthropology and archaeology.
After job losses and the housing crash, the author and her family leave LA to start over in a most unlikely place: a 9-foot-wide back-alley house in one of Ho Chi Minh City's poorest districts, where neighbors unabashedly stare into windows, generously share their barbecued rat, keep cockroaches for luck, and ultimately help her find joy without Western trappings.
The author of Indian Crisis (first published in 1943) spent over fifteen years as an educationalist and social and religious worker in India and was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal for Public Service.
The author of Indian Crisis (first published in 1943) spent over fifteen years as an educationalist and social and religious worker in India and was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal for Public Service.
Paying attention to the livelihood of the common people, including issues of irrigation, forced labor, the duties and behavior of officials, people's food, clothing, and housing, delving into the daily life of society from a historical perspective, and investigating the details of the changes that occurred in the social system from a historical perspective with the utmost precision, is something rare among the generation of historian Lu Si Mian, and this is what this book achieves.
The Political Culture of Japan delves into the evolving political attitudes of the Japanese populace in the postwar period, focusing on the influence of democratization efforts introduced during the American occupation.
Between Dependency and Autonomy offers a compelling exploration of India's evolving relationship with the international computer industry between 1960 and 1980, showcasing a significant shift in power dynamics.
The Political Culture of Japan delves into the evolving political attitudes of the Japanese populace in the postwar period, focusing on the influence of democratization efforts introduced during the American occupation.
Politics and Social Change: Orissa in 1959 offers a dual exploration of political dynamics and theoretical frameworks, reflecting both the regions evolving democratic practices and broader questions in social anthropology.
Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 18851925 traces the roots of modern Vietnam's revolutionary politics back to the decades when French colonial control was consolidated and Vietnamese resistance first assumed organized forms.
Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture.
Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 18851925 traces the roots of modern Vietnam's revolutionary politics back to the decades when French colonial control was consolidated and Vietnamese resistance first assumed organized forms.
Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905-1960 offers a compelling exploration of the evolution of liberal thought in Japan during a period of profound social, political, and economic transformation.
In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change.
Japans stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians.
Chinas Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961 was a time of official rejoicing over the achievements of Communism, but it was also a time of immense suffering.
