Regional / International studies

Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades.

This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory.

African American Community Practice Models shows you what you can "e;see"e; and "e;learn"e; when people of African American descent are put in the center of community analysis and change.

This book investigates the performance of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) since its inception, focusing on four areas of central concern to African states: decolonization, conflict control, development, and human rights.

Based largely on Neville Chamberlain's own words and official government documents, this book describes how were it not for Chamberlain's powerful, dominating presence in the British government, World War II might have been avoided.

This is a bold and controversial feminist, philosophical critique of postmodernism.

In Keeping the Faith, Jennifer Jean Wynot presents a clear and concise history of the trials and evolution of Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents and the important roles they have played in Russian culture, in both in the spiritual and political realms, from the abortive reforms of 1905 to the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.

Kanadehon Chushingura has been one of the most popular bunraku and kabuki plays.

First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China.

This book brings together essays on North East India from across disciplines to explore new understandings of the colonial and contemporary realities of the region.

This book likens writers' incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naive physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood.

The architects of the Camp David process expected their efforts to become a broad and inclusive framework for peace in the Middle East.

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems.

Must religious voices keep quiet in public places?

Written in the author's typically charming and self-effacing style, this book offers readers a fascinating insight into Japan and Japanese life at the eve of its fateful entry into the Second World War.

This book brings to life the remarkable stories of five exceptional international development leaders and influencers: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Domingo Cavallo, Ela Bhatt, Dzingai Mutumbuka, and Adolfo Figueroa.

Over recent decades, China has moved from being a follower towards taking on a leadership role in global environmental governance.

This book examines motherhood and childlessness within the context of the emergence of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) in Bangladesh.

Focusing on the work of contemporary African women researchers, this volume explores feminist perspectives in relation to African Indigenous Religions (AIR).

This book provides fresh insights into the theory and policy of regional and multilateral trade from the perspective of developing countries.

This collection brings us up-to-date on the contemporary situations in the new democracies of East Asia, and debates on the prospect of introducing liberal democracy to this part of the world.

Soviet Socialism (1987) is based on the author's specialized knowledge of many aspects of Soviet politics, including local government, the Communist Party and the Soviet intelligentsia.

This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev.

This volume gives a brief outline of the life of Ibn Yamin (who died in 1367), based on the biography of Rashid-i-Yasimi and the background of his writing at a time when the Sultans of Khurasan at a time when they were constantly at war with one another.

The Islamic positioning of Islamophobia is presented in this book.

Is there an Asia-Pacific model of democracy?

This book examines the portrayal of themes of boundary crossing, itinerancy, relocation, and displacement in US genre paintings during the second half of the long nineteenth century (c.

The economic liberalization in India over the last three decades has provided a wealth of opportunity for entrepreneurs looking to start and expand their businesses.

Transnational Perspecives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985 is a collection of essential essays that bring transnational feminist praxis into conversation with histories of feminist art in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s.

First published in 1979, Nemesis at Potsdam discusses the expulsion and spoliation of the Germans from most of central and easter Europe during the Second World War, a process which over two million did not survive.

The contributors to this book present case studies of elder care in China and India, and draw comparisons between the two - illuminating some of the key issues facing the two largest Asian countries as they develop rapidly.

This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen through a symbolic good and a practice - the book, and the act of publication - two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modern world.

First published in 1996.

This monograph presents an integrated concept of workforce development strategy for the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia.

An illustrated history of the American tanks deployed to the Pacific theater during World War II and the conflicts they faced there.

The term 'progress' is a modern Western notion that life is always improving and advancing toward an ideal state.

Covering the years spanning cinema's emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads up to Bengali cinema's last phase of transition in the 1980s.

This book is the first translated and annotated edition of Ibn Nazif's Al-Ta'rikh al-Mansuri.

The world entered the atomic age in August 1945, when the B-29 Superfortress nicknamed Enola Gay flew some 1,500 miles from the island of Tinian and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines explores new perspectives made possible by the evidence drawn from visual culture.

How did East and West Germany and Japan reconstitute national identity after World War II?

This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China.

This book examines the transformation of the state in Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism and adoption of market oriented reform in the early 1990s, exploring the impact of globalization and economic liberalization on the region's states, societies and political economy.

The formative period of Islam remains highly contested.