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This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity.

This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity.

This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice China's opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, China's North-East region, known for its remote and vast landscape, unique and othered culture, rich resources, mighty infrastructures and industries, geopolitical significance.

This book explores China's ambition to build itself into a maritime power.

This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice China's opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, China's North-East region, known for its remote and vast landscape, unique and othered culture, rich resources, mighty infrastructures and industries, geopolitical significance.

Focusing on the attitudes and experiences of American female diplomats and spouses, this book examines the social, political, and cultural dimensions of American interactions with the Middle East and North Africa in the five decades after the Second World War.

Focusing on the attitudes and experiences of American female diplomats and spouses, this book examines the social, political, and cultural dimensions of American interactions with the Middle East and North Africa in the five decades after the Second World War.

This book explores China's ambition to build itself into a maritime power.

This groundbreaking book delves into the lived experiences and collective wisdom of Indigenous communities impacted by colonialism.

This groundbreaking book delves into the lived experiences and collective wisdom of Indigenous communities impacted by colonialism.

This book examines questions of experimental design, in social science principally concerning what happens if shortcuts are allowed in the design, analysis, and interpretation of psychological research.

This edited collection sheds light on the complex nature of migratory movements through the lens of economic and social history.

This book analyses Member States' and EU neighbours' national visions for the enlargement of the European Union (EU), highlighting 41 national histories, policies, and corresponding public perceptions of European integration.

This edited collection sheds light on the complex nature of migratory movements through the lens of economic and social history.

This book analyses Member States' and EU neighbours' national visions for the enlargement of the European Union (EU), highlighting 41 national histories, policies, and corresponding public perceptions of European integration.

This book gathers essays on premodern plants, considering the position of critical plant studies in relation to medieval studies.

This book brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, with a focus on literary, historical and cinema studies.

A brilliant and sobering critique of the Palestinian failure to achieve statehood, by a major Palestinian historian and political commentatorAt a time when a lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of the longest-running conflict in the Middle East is an essential step in restoring hope to the region.

This book considers how to conceive of the group of islands known in our time as the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages.

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The book conducts a comprehensive research study on China's urbanization.

The Emerging Populist Majority analyzes America's political future and changing coalitions through long-term and emerging trends across demography, geography, and ideology.

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This book offers a detailed case study of the transfer of ownership to Nigeria in November 2022 of the 72 artworks in the Horniman's collections looted by the British from Benin City in 1897, as an occasion to explore the current state of the issue of restitution of cultural objects.

This book shows how inflation can disrupt politics and society.

Direct Democracy is inexpensive.

This book is the first of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science).

This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics.

The book discusses recent developments in philosophy with regards to how historical events can be explained causally and introduces perspectives from the philosophy of science into the philosophy of history.

This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War.

This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape, and the ways in which remembering shapes the sites we occupy and use.

This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912.

This book traces the full history of the Higher Education Act of 1965 in its entirety, to the present.

This book traces the full history of the Higher Education Act of 1965 in its entirety, to the present.

This book provides a thorough overview of the ostalgie films about the German Democratic Republic (GDR) produced since the 1990s.

This handbook addresses issues around urban growth in early India.

This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape, and the ways in which remembering shapes the sites we occupy and use.

This book has re-visited two distinctive patterns, namely pottery and millet, the movement of both of which conflict with conventional narratives concerning prehistoric trans-Eurasian exchange.

This book focuses on the rise of Kurdish nationalism in northwestern Iran in the context of the emergence of the Kurdish leader, Ismail Agha Simko, who organized a movement to establish a Kurdish state between 1918 and 1922 The rise of Simko is analyzed in the historical framework of the collapse of the Russian and Ottoman empires, as well as the disappearance of Iranian governmental authority in various provinces of the country during and after the end of the First World War.

This book offers fresh perspectives on the legacy of colonialism in the North-east frontiers of India, especially the Naga Hills.

This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War.

Starting from the central importance of memory in contemporary societies, this book encourages a transdisciplinary reflection on how the "e;presentification of the past"e; is never a simple reenactment but corresponds to the interaction between memory and cultural sensitiveness, present beliefs and needs, expectations, and forecasts for the future.

This book focuses on the rise of Kurdish nationalism in northwestern Iran in the context of the emergence of the Kurdish leader, Ismail Agha Simko, who organized a movement to establish a Kurdish state between 1918 and 1922 The rise of Simko is analyzed in the historical framework of the collapse of the Russian and Ottoman empires, as well as the disappearance of Iranian governmental authority in various provinces of the country during and after the end of the First World War.

This book, a tribute to historian of mathematics Jeremy Gray, offers an overview of the history of mathematics and its inseparable connection to philosophy and other disciplines.