Regional / International studies

This book examines information and public opinion control by the authoritarian state in response to popular access to information and upgraded political communication channels among the citizens in contemporary China.

In this book, Hans-Jurgen Burchardt and Irene Lungo-Rodriguez lead a transdisciplinary team of experts to advance our understanding of wealth in Latin America.

"e;Everything should be made as simple as possible-but not simpler"e; Albert Einstein Traffic Theory, like all other sciences, aims at understanding and improving a physical phenomenon.

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This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial and contemporary South Asia.

This volume of original essays fills a significant research gap in Chinese film studies by offering an interdisciplinary, comparative examination of ethnic Chinese film stars from the silent period to the era of globalization.

The service sector accounts for a huge proportion of global employment, and is the biggest driver of gross domestic product in developing nations.

Marine combat veteran and award-winning military historian Joseph Alexander takes a fresh look at one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.

This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban.

The Komagata Maru incident has become central to ongoing debates on Canadian racism, immigration, multiculturalism, citizenship and Indian nationalist resistance.

This book introduces political science of religion - a coherent approach to the study of the political role of religion grounded in political science.

Featuring many previously unpublished images and first-hand accounts, this is a detailed analysis of Germany's Panzerartillerie in World War II.

Evangelicals today probably have more political influence in the United States than at any time in the last century--but they might not be certain what to do with it.

David Ricardo's theories have been widely studied and discussed, including the prominent theory on comparative advantage.

This book delves into Turkey's increasing ethno-religious, pragmatic, and complicated involvement and activism in the Balkans since 2002, under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi - AKP).

A series of daring missions from World War II, revealed through letters and documents from the main protagonists.

This book examines the various economic, political and developmental policy challenges that Malaysia faces in her shift from a middle income to high-income economy.

Since the 1970s, Turkey has suffered 35,000 deaths through terrorism, yet the PKK terror group was only recognized as such by the European Union in 2002.

This book focuses on genealogies of religious authority in South Asia, examining the figure of the guru in narrative texts, polemical tracts, hagiographies, histories, in contemporary devotional communities, New Age spiritual movements and global guru organizations.

Focusing on the practice of journalism in modern China, this book studies the history of modern Chinese journalism and gives insights on its culture and value.

Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, Arabic Literature - An Overview gives a rounded and balanced view of Arab literary creativity.

In this book, Isaiah Friedman examines one of the most complex problems that bedeviled Middle East politics in the interwar period, one that still remains controversial.

A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeThe chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in Jewish history.

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in their quest to liberalise and democratise their respective polities.

The following study is primarily concerned with the unifying and destructive forces that affected the Anglo-American relationship between 1938 and 1944, as those involved searched for a strategic solution to the war in Europe.

This book addresses the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on Central and East European countries and examines the effect the pandemic has had on organizations in the region.

Colloquial Kazakh provides a step-by-step course in Kazakh as it is written and spoken today.

The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery.

The second edition of this lucid and accessible work rapidly established itself as a textbook for universities and colleges.

This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa.

Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan makes a unique contribution to the international literature on the formation of modern nation-states in its focus on the gendering of the modern Japanese nation-state from the late nineteenth century to the present.

The 21st century has been called 'the Asian Century' by Eastern and Western academics, largely due to the economic and cultural rise of China and India.

John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British Civil War and Interregnum.

Completed just before his death in 1817 by one of the foremost European pioneers in Arabic studies.

This book is the first to examine Henry Darger's conceptual and visual representation of "e;girls"e; and girlhood.

As China rises as an economic and an international power, new relationships are being forged with all areas of the world including Central and Eastern Europe.

For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa.

The Museum in Asia advances an understanding of the flourishing museum landscape in the region by offering a variety of conceptual tools and frameworks through which museum development can be analysed and understood.

This book investigates China's railway transformation through history, along with culture changes and urban development.

The divide between the West and Southeast Asia seems to be nowhere more apparent than in debates about human rights.

This book examines the birth of the European individual as a juridical problem, focusing on legal case dossiers from the European Court of Justice as an electrifying laboratory for the study of law and society.

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Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema, especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between the two countries.

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In the seventeenth century, England saw Holland as an economic power to learn from and compete with.

This book makes a distinctive contribution to the crucial debate on the European Union (EU)'s present and future development.

This book offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to criminology in Ireland.

First published in 1927, this title presents a well-regarded study of this intriguing and often over-looked period of Egyptian history, both for the general reader and the student of Hellenism.

This volume offers a "e;southern,"e; Pacific Ocean perspective on the topic of racial hybridity, exploring it through a series of case studies from around the Australo-Pacific region, a region unique as a result of its very particular colonial histories.