This book examines the Chinese government's policies and practices for relations with the Inner Periphery areas of Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, and the Outer Periphery areas of Hong Kong and Taiwan focusing on themes of political authority, socio-cultural relations, and economic development.
This book explores the essential nature of regionalism by conducting a comprehensive analysis of more than 30 regionalist proposals made by Japan and other Asian countries throughout the post-war period.
Since 2012, industrial overcapacity has become an increasingly serious problem in China, against the backdrop of domestic economic slowdown and continued downturn in international markets.
This volume draws upon one of the first comprehensive studies on the regional variations of services for aging persons in China to provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of the impact of China's rapidly growing aging population on the country's socioeconomic, cultural, and political systems.
How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems and dynamics of gender and idealized femininity.
In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do: "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
Estos textos buscan reflexionar acerca de algunas representaciones, discursos y prácticas que construyen la Patagonia, al abordar la relación entre cultura-naturaleza como reflexión política, la religiosidad de migrantes latinoamericanos, la producción de territorialidad a partir de la cartografía colonial, y el desierto y política pública.
Este libro se inscribe en una problemática emergente y recientemente visibilizada por los Estados y las Agencias de Cooperación Internacional: la violencia sexual contra los hombres en el marco de las confrontaciones armadas y las guerras en el mundo.
Written with ';a cinematic sense of urgency and realism' (Evan Osnos, National Book Awardwinning author), this is the first full account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the secret ten-day parlay in Morocco where FDR, Churchill, and their divided high command hammered out a winning strategy at the tipping point of World War II.
Lejos de los pronosticos apocaliticos del siglo pasado que planteaban la progresiva desaparicion de lo religioso en el marco de la creciente racionalizacion y secularizacion de la sociedad moderna, lo religioso ha emergido a traves de multiples manifestaciones demostrando su persistencia, a la vez que exteriorizando tanto perspectivas novedosas como reafirmando planteos tradicionalistas y fuertemente fundamentalistas.
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts.
Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe.
Dive deep into the vast expanse of intellectual thought with "e;Aristotle's Complete Works,"e; a comprehensive eBook that brings together the works of Aristotle, one of the most revered philosophers in history.
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts.
Algunos temas empíricos de investigación no han recibido hasta el momento un abordaje sistemático por parte de las ciencias histórico-sociales en Argentina.
Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe.
The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlersAnd Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes.
Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.
*; A pivotal year of World War II through German eyes *; The campaigns of the German army, air force, and navy described by a master storyteller *; Covers the aftermath of Stalingrad, Kursk, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, the U-boat war, and air battles After a crushing loss at Stalingrad, the German war machine regrouped in early 1943 to stave off total defeat, but it could not stem the rising Allied tide.
