Regional / International studies

Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women's activism across Asia.

This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power.

Trauma Cinema focuses on a new breed of documentary films and videos that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter and trauma as their aesthetic.

The deflationary Japanese economy is a spurious observation and a precarious political propaganda, which tacitly connects with the fanatic diagnosis urging an inflation-prompting macroeconomic policy.

Providing a window on educational leadership from an Asian cultural perspective, Liu and Thien's edited collection describes how educational leadership is linked with national culture in the context of different Asian countries.

Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War is the most authoritative book on the subject in the English language.

In this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian American experiences from the perspectives of historical consciousness, race, gender, class, and culture.

This volume explores in close detail the events and factors leading up to the second Gulf War in 2003 and considers whether war with Iraq was inevitable.

Kathakali Dance-Drama provides a comprehensive introduction to the distinctive and colourful dance-drama of Kerala in South-West India for the first time.

This volume completes the reissue of R.

This book provides translated selections from the writings of Muhammad Ibn Othman al-Miknasi (d.

This first full-length book addresses disasters in the context of vulnerability of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that comprise 572 islands in the Bay of Bengal.

Radio Modernism marries the fields of radio studies and modernist cultural historiography to the recent 'ethical turn' in literary and cultural studies to examine how representative British writers negotiated the moral imperative for public service broadcasting that was crafted, embraced, and implemented by the BBC's founders and early administrators.

The interrelationships of the United States and Japan with Micronesia, a U.

This book analyzes contemporary dispossessions in Brazil, drawing on the Marxian concept of primitive accumulation to show how processes of proletarianization, capitalization, and commodification each relate in distinct ways to capitalist accumulation.

This groundbreaking study of the politics of secession combines traditional political history with current work in anthropology and gender and ritual studies.

The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theological challenge presented by the new post-Brexit epoch.

This book examines land acquisition and resettlement experience in Asian countries, where nearly two-thirds of the world's development-induced displacement currently takes place.

A pictorial history of Allied forces making their way through Italy in the final years of World War II, featuring rare photos from wartime archives.

This book analyzes the concept of an international conference as referred to by the major parties involved to resolve at least one facet of the Arab-Israel predicament.

Weaving together a number of disparate themes relating to Holocaust perpetrators, this book shows how Nazi Germany propelled a vast number of Europeans to try to re-engineer the population base of the continent through mass murder.

Das Schicksal einer jüdischen Familie im Wien der späten 1930er Jahre, die unprätentiöse Lebensgeschichte einer Vertriebenen.

This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of Concord.

This monograph presents potential remedies for some of the current environmental issues in developed countries in a theoretical or empirical manner with the interdisciplinary approaches of economics, statistics, and engineering.

Capturing the narratives of indigenes, this book presents a unique anthology on global Indigenous peoples' wisdoms and ways of knowing.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview for those interested in the role of religion and race in American history.

The relationship between teacher education and internationalization is often regarded as one that has just begun, sparked by globalization and its knowledge economy.

9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have left many people baffled and concerned.

This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the changing ideas about children and childhood in the United States.

This book is a case study of policy translation at an elite Japanese university.

The correct use of English verb argument structure is crucial for foreign learners of the English language.

Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding.

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Museums of the Arabian Peninsula offers new insights into the history and development of museums within the region.

the urban West, it is easy to forget that most of the world's population still lives in villages, and despite increasing globalization it remains true that many countries can best be understood on the village level.

The beginning of the new millennium marked the meteoric rise of China in a decades-old world order dominated by the United States of America.

This book presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the Cold War period, 1945-91.

Arabic Literature for the Classroom argues for a more visible presence of Arabic within the humanities and social sciences, stressing the need to make Arabic literature available as a world literature, without damaging its own distinctive characteristics.

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established itself as one of the most powerful private forces in global politics, shaping the trajectories of international policy-making.

Urban Design Methods is a manual for reconciling contemporary approaches with increasingly complex demands in the shaping of urban living spaces.

The essays in this edited volume seek to understand the regional and international ramifications of the wave of protest demonstrations that swept across West Asia and North Africa in the early 2010s, both on the ground and online.

Browne's famous work, first published in 1902, was the essential text on literary history in Persian studies for many years.