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Originally published in 1969, this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to use one language (Swahili) rather than another, or within a given period, to use a particular language in one set of circumstances.

Asian interregional economic cooperation has assumed greater prominence with the rise of Asia's two giant economies of China and India.

When the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) of the middle and late 1960s burst forth, the initial response both in China and the West seemed primarily to be one of mystification.

The Mekong Basin is home to some 70 million people, for whom this great river is a source of livelihoods, the basis for their ecosystems and a foundation of their economies.

This fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany reveals how the close relationship between Mussolini and Hitler influenced both men.

The Battle of the Bulge was the last hurrah for the German Army on the Western Front.

This book examines how major interpretations of quantum theory are progressing toward a more unified understanding and experience of nature.

The immigration of Muslims to Europe and the integration of later generations presents many challenges to European societies.

The is the first volume of Iberica-Caucasica, a new annual publication based in Tbilisi (Georgia) and devoted exclusively to the art, history and culture of the Caucasus.

How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust?

This title undertakes an impartial, authoritative, and in-depth examination of the moral arguments and ideas behind the laws and policies that govern personal, corporate, and government behavior in the United States.

The past fifteen years have seen Indonesia move away from authoritarianism to a thriving yet imperfect democracy.

In this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives.

Through a discourse analysis of Japanese parliamentary debates, this book explores how different understandings of Japan's history have led to sharply divergent security policies in the postwar period, whilst providing an explanation for the much-debated security policy changes under Abe Shinzo.

First published in 1995.

A collection presenting cutting edge research from music, dance, performance art, fashion and visual arts, written by scholar-practitioners working in Southeast Asia.

After twenty-five years of thinly veiled hostility, U.

Most Jewish communities continue to cite intermarriage as the most serious threat to Jewish continuity.

Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive.

Originally published in 1992, Turkic Oral Poetry provides an expert introduction to the oral epic traditions of the Turkic peoples of central Asia.

The Handbook of European Security Law and Policy offers a holistic discussion of the contemporary challenges to the security of the European Union and emphasizes the complexity of dealing with these through legislation and policy.

This Adelphi Paper examines the motives behind Libya's pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability, from Gadhafi's rise to power in 1969 through to the end of 2003.

This Handbook covers the most urgent, controversial, and important topics in the philosophy of sex.

Drawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan's terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.

In the Zionist view of Israeli history, the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem - the Jewish community of the 19th and early 20th centuries - was "e;a lifeless body ruled by hypocrites, cheats and unschooled rabbis"e;, and its importance was downplayed and ignored in this study of the Old Yishuv, Dr Halper uncovers the personalities, issues, and events that formed

This book explores neoliberalism as an account of contemporary society and considers what this means for our understanding of religion.

Wang offers an empirically based exploration into work-integration social enterprises as a means for delivering social services in China.

Exploiting new findings from former East Bloc archives and from long-ignored Western sources, this book presents a wholly new picture of the coming of World War II, Allied wartime diplomacy, and the origins of the Cold War.

With particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the rise and fall of sea powers.

The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country's reform and opening in recent years.

A fully illustrated account of the Red Army's fierce April 1945 offensive meant to encircle and assault Berlin amidst desperate German resistance.

Led by Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the UAE has become deeply embedded in the contemporary system of international power, politics, and policy-making.

This book interprets relationships between art and ethics in the context of contemporary South African art.

This book analyses the cultural politics of urban development in Gwangju, South Korea, and illustrates the implementation of state-led arts-based urban boosterism efforts in the context of political trauma and the desire for economic growth.

Land reform has been the most challenging social issue for China, which is in transition from an agricultural society to an industrialized country.

This is a linguistic-cultural study of the emergence of Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust.

The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978 and the consequent outbreak of the Cambodian conflict brought Southeast Asia into instability and deteriorated relations between Vietnam and the subsequently established Vietnam-backed government in Cambodia on the one hand and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries on the other.

Interviews and first-hand accounts of an historic decision that affected the mental health profession-and American society and cultureThrough the personal accounts of those who were there, American Psychiatry and Homosexuality: An Oral History examines the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from its diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM).

Story of one of the best and most battered armored divisions in the German armed forces.

Analyzes nine wartime and postwar defections, highlighting motivations, risks, and counter-intelligence significance.

Kevin Lane discusses the tension existed between China's traditional claim to sovereignty over Hong Kong.

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How does China see the rest of the world?

Presenting six case studies from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong, this volume marks one of the first forums dedicated to the emerging second generation in Asia.

For many years the severe under-representation of women in the institutions that forge Canadian public policy has been the subject of widespread discussion and debate, as have the various manifestations of inequality on the laws and policies themselves.

By making Korea a central part of comparative history of East Asian religion and society, this book traces the evolution of Korean religion from the oldest representation to that of the current day by utilizing wide-ranging interdisciplinary and comparative resources.