Regional / International studies

This fully revised and updated third edition of Japanese Economic Development looks at Japan's economic history from the nineteenth century through to World War II, recasting analysis of Japan's economic past in the light fresh theoretical perspectives in the study of economic history and development.

Investigates the alliance between the British administration and the Muslim landed magnates who dominated the countryside and provides valuable insights into the emergence of the elite's governing Pakistan today.

This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and religion.

China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world.

The first comprehensive study of musical Holocaust representations in the Western tradition to examine both musical language and cultural value.

Following the Japanese invasion of the islands in 1942, North Luzon was the staging area for several Filipino-American guerrilla bands who sought to gather intelligence and to destroy enemy military installations or supplies.

In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome's ancient Jewish community, shocked his co-religionists in Italy and throughout the Jewish world by converting to Catholicism and taking as his baptismal name, Eugenio, to honor Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) for what Zolli saw as his great humanitarianism toward the Jews during the Holocaust.

The sheets of paper are as brittle as fallen leaves; the faltering handwriting changes from page to page; the words, a faded brown, are almost indecipherable.

There is growing interest in social transformation in contemporary China, with much work published on the subject.

This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to discuss international law and conflict in the Indo-Pacific region, covering topics such as maritime security, climate change and international relations.

This is the first book to provide a panoramic view of the origins of the Boxer War.

China's emergence as the world's second largest economy has been driven by more than four decades of explosive growth.

Clouds above the Hill, a long-time best-selling novel in Japan, is now translated into English for the first time.

When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland.

"e;I swear by all that's Holy, I will never come anywhere near the Palestine problem once I liberate myself from this trap.

This book examines the causes of the economic and political crisis in Argentina in 2001 and the process of strong economic recovery.

Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan.

Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society.

The contributors to this volume take a hard look at Roosevelt's reaction to the Holocaust.

This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism.

Taking a comparative approach, this fieldwork-based study explores the lives and thoughts of Buddhist nuns in present-day Taiwan and Sri Lanka.

Indian Anthropology: Anthropological Discourse in Bombay 1886-1936 is an important contribution to the history of Indian anthropology, focusing on its formative period.

China's economy, which continues to grow rapidly, is having an ever greater impact on the rest of the world.

Local Government in the Soviet Union (1987) analyses the Soviet Union's limited success in improving local government between in the 1960s to 1980s, as the country made a drive toward centralized policy control.

The book, written by experts in their respective areas of official responsibility in Vietnam, provides a well researched, comprehensive, and concisely presented assessment and forecasts on opportunities for trade, investment, business, and cooperation in Vietnam for use by foreign companies, individuals, and institutions.

In To Be an Actress, Nava Shean tells about her life on the stage: from children's theater in Prague to traveling theater in the Czech countryside, to performances of prisoners in Terezin concentration camp, to Israel's national theater, Munich State theater, and her one-woman shows.

In recent years, there has been an increased attention to temporality in political theory, and such attention is sorely needed.

Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players.

This book explains how the idea and practice of UCA are shaped by, and inform, constitutional politics through various social and political actors, and in both formal and informal amendment processes, across Asia.

Published in 1998, this is an edited volume of papers on the theme of participation and citizenship for women.

Education is seen by the Chinese as a key element in the modernisation of their country and in maintaining socialism.

Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared.

This is Volume VII of thirteen the Oriental series looking at Persia.

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Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics.

This book demonstrates synergies and distils hard-earned lessons of human and forest rights struggles to inform the ongoing debates on environmental human rights.

Finalist, Best LGBTQ Nonfiction Book, Lambda Literary Awards 2020 On October 14, 1998, five thousand people gathered on the steps of the U.

This book examines the vital nature of the subject of leadership in Asia and looks, in particular, at the processes and practices within the Asia Pacific region.

This book analyses how sustainability affects internal decision-making within the European Union and its external relations in working towards achieving its long-term goal of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050.

This book engages with different aspects of India's practice of international law.

Neither women's studies nor lesbian and gay studies offers an adequate theoretical or political base for lesbian scholarship.

The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology is the first edited collection of its kind to bring together the work of leading Irish criminologists in a single volume.

This book celebrates the contributions of David B.

The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions.

Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt were among the last Jews deported from Nazi Berlin.

This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society.

Lucy Terry was a devoted wife and mother, and the first known African-American poet.

This book offers a critical examination of contemporary higher education reforms in Thailand situated in the broader historical, socio-economic and political changes.

The subject of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East and indeed in the West attracts much academic and media attention.

Essays on Marxism and Asia begins with the largely forgotten prophet of ancient Iran Zarathushtra, remembered and immortalised by Friedrich Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra.