Regional / International studies

In February 1978, the post-Mao leadership revealed an ambitious ten-year program (1976-1985) with a $600 million capital outlay, aimed at propelling China into the front ranks of the industrialized nations by the year 2000 through the modernization of agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defense.

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America provides a unique, comprehensive, and critical overview of Latin American studies in the nineteenth century, including the major regions and subfields.

The popular Hindi film industry is the largest in India and the most conspicuous film industry in the non-Western world.

By July of 1944, the Third Reich's days were numbered.

At a time of renewed interest in the monarchy (stimulated by the marriage of Prince William of Wales and the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II), the institution is analyzed and dissected from almost every point of view apart from the sacred -- which arguably stands at its heart and is its ultimate raison d'etre.

From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this is the engrossing story of the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stalingrad, and how it prevented the whole Axis front line from collapsing.

This volume examines the relationship between central government and local institutions, taking Italy as a case study to present a comparative perspective on how the Italian experience has influenced the global developments of federal and regional states.

This book explores the Holocaust exhibition opened within the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in 2000; setting out the long and often contentious debates surrounding the conception, design, and finally the opening of an important exhibition within a national museum in Britain.

This book explores China's Belt and Road Initiative and the criminogenic potential for economic, financial, and socio-cultural cooperation across countries, where some are known for weak law enforcement and high levels of corruption.

Urban India is undergoing a rapid transformation, which also encompasses the educational sector.

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the musical Hair and will offer critical analysis which focuses on giving voice to those who are historically considered to be on the margins of musical theatre history.

For the first century-and-a-half of its nearly 275 year existence, the English East India Company remained ostensibly a mercantile enterprise, satisfied to simply trade, competing with other European traders.

Beginning with the restoration of diplomatic relations between the US and Cambodia in 1969, this book is the first to systematically explore the controversial issues and events surrounding the relationship between the two countries in the latter half of the 20th century.

Clinical psychology has traditionally ignored gender issues.

As a newcomer to tourism, China has amazed the world with its rapid growth of inbound, outbound, and domestic tourism.

Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical, cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying Taiwan's maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual character of Taiwan's urban environment and its recent changes and development through architecture.

This comprehensive and thought-provoking volume examines the role and function of religion in Hezbollah's political strategy in the context of contemporary Lebanese politics and global security.

This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to help build the Alaska Highway and install the companion Canol pipeline.

Evgeniy Mariinskiy, a Soviet fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union, shot down 20 enemy planes in aerial combat over the Eastern Front between 1943 and 1945.

Gesa Stedman's ambitious new study is a comprehensive account of cross-channel cultural exchanges between seventeenth-century France and England, and includes discussion of a wide range of sources and topics.

This innovative, interdisciplinary introduction to East Asian politics uses a thematic approach to describe the political development of China, Japan, and Koreas since the mid-nineteenth century and analyze the social, cultural, political, and economic features of each country.

First published in 1980, Quakers in India is an account of the Quaker encounter with India from the day the first Quaker-owned ship sailed from Liverpool for Calcutta in 1815, until more than a century later.

Belarus is often regarded as "e;Europe's last dictatorship"e;, a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union.

Rare World War II photographs detailing the massive American contribution to the 1944 campaign in northwest Europe from August to mid-December.

Turkey is a country with a history of multiparty electoral competition going back to 1950, longer than many other nations in the world.

In Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust, David H.

African State and Society in the 1990s is the first comprehensive English language book to appear on Cameroon's political events since 1989.

The media ecology within which conventional mainstream journalism currently operates has undergone major transformations since the advent of social media.

International Partnership in Russia provides a unique insight into the joint ventures formed by international oil companies in Russia during the post-Soviet era.

The three decades between 1865 and 1895 marked a particularly contentious period in the relationship between Britain and Russia in Central Asia, which more than once brought them to the verge of war.

Past studies of China have concentrated on specific events or have related a chronological history of the dynastic periods.

This book uses football as a lens through which to examine China's economic development, its political economy, and its political thought.

During the last decade of the 20th century, Africa has been marked by a "e;constitutional wind"e; which has blown across the continent giving impetus to constitutional reforms designed to introduce constitutionalism and good governance.

This book studies the hitherto overlooked genre of horror cinema in India.

China's food security has never failed to attract the public's attention.

An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.

The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered brings together leading authorities in a transnational, international, and supranational study of Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Israelis in Argentina and tried in Jerusalem in 1961.

First published in 2006.

The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has been extending small loans to poor borrowers (primarily women) to promote self-employment and income generation since 1976.

Why do authorities in post-colonial African states continue to employ European or Western planning models?

This book explores the drivers of technological upgrading and catch-up in the emerging economies, paying specific attention to technology and innovation policies, national innovation systems, the role of foreign direct investment and small and medium enterprises.

This book offers an understanding of the expectations and challenges of Northeast India in the context of India's Act East policy.

This volume is a comprehensive study of the challenges and opportunities facing the BIMSTEC, The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation.

Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet promotes the importance of intergenerational Black dialogue as a collaborative spirit-making across race, genders, sexualities, and cultures to bridge time and space.

In the past three decades, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of economic and urban development.

Should religion and politics be kept apart?

Showing that Muslim societies are facing a crisis that is more cultural than religious, this book focuses on cultural representations through which social life is experienced in the Muslim world.

The organized play of the pre-school child with a group of peers in an educational atmosphere is now recognised as an important element in child development.