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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorivey /f DonaldBook InformationISBN 9780313200519Author Donald SpiveyFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Elliott Hahn provides Western business leaders and their attorneys with an understanding of the complexities of the Japanese business and legal systems. It presents an overview of Japanese business law, a detailed analysis of the specific role of...

Product information not available.Scally's bio-bibliography, through its size and annotations, reveals the great breadth of Woodson's interests: history, education, politics, and the arts--in Africa and the Caribbean as well as in the US... She has...

Moody presents the thesis that `post-Confucian' societies are influenced by the legacy of a strong state ruling over a weak social structure. Ruling and opposition elites thus tend towar factionalism based on personal ties, and also to `moralistic'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorner /f Philip /i S.Book InformationISBN 9780837195452Author Philip S. FonerFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorumberg /f Stephan /i F.ReviewsIn 1914, more than one and one-half million Eastern European Jews emigrated to the U.S. Virtually all of them passed through or...

This book examines the major theories of Black and White racial identity. Moreover, theoretical perspectives that were originally developed to describe social fomentation have been updated and expanded to explain the role of racial identity in counseling...

The vast continent of Africa is a land of enormous diversity. Bever explores the history of Africa from the origin of one of the oldest civilizations in the world to the present-day challenges of race relations, politics, and economic development. The...

The collective message of this compendium is caution: don't put excessive pressure on African institutions. Sayre Schatz, Ravi Gulhati and Satya Yalamanchili, and Raymond Hopkins, in particular, argue that laissez-faire won't work in Africa; that reforms...

Jackson's expertise shines in this innovative analysis of the link between social inequality and law enforcement efforts. The research connects the level of conflict characterizing majority-minority relations to the level of financial investment in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorelstein /f AlanBook InformationISBN 9780313227547Author Alan EdelsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 235Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Clovis Semmes extends Afrocentric social theory by formulating the problem of structured inequality for African Americans in terms of cultural hegemony. Cultural Hegemony and African American Development challenges oppositional and segmented analyses...

This book is a collection of essays, each written by a specialist in his field, reviewing American research on Russia since World War II. The topics range from history, economics and political science to music, linguistics and architecture.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313230936Author Irene V. Jackson BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Written by Africans about Africans, this is the first thorough and truly informative analysis of the Biafran conflict.About the Authorpaku /f JosephBook InformationISBN 9780837146683Author Joseph OkpakuFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint Praeger...

Around the turn of the century, the United States was still experiencing the mass migration of millions of Jews and other immigrants escaping oppression and poverty in Europe. Set against this historical backdrop, author Louis Harap examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorisbord /f Robert /i G.Book InformationISBN 9780837164168Author Robert G. WeisbordFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorwickBook InformationISBN 9780837163024Author Jules RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorudho /f Constance /i E.Book InformationISBN 9780837185828Author C. Obudho JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher Bloomsbury...

Portrays the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students."It's kind of an odd thing, really, because it's not like I'm one or the other, or like I fit here or there, but I kind of also fit everywhere. And nowhere. All at once. You...

This singular reference provides an authoritative account of the daily lives of enslaved women in the United States, from colonial times to emancipation following the Civil War. Through essays, photos, and primary source documents, the female experience...

An excellent resource on the changing population distribution of antebellum Black Americans, this book covers census data by region and state. Two-thirds of the book consists of tables and graphs providing dimensional representations of black...

Intergroup relations is a contentious issue both inside and outside South Africa, where it has dominated political thinking for the past several decades, and affected the day-to-day lives of all the country's inhabitants. In recent years scholars have...

In Because They Were Jews, Meyer Weinberg examines the history of antisemitism in twelve representative countries from ancient times to the present. His selection includes the eight European countries with the largest number of Jews, as well as countries...

While newly liberated American blacks were relatively free to participate in the nation's political life during the decade following the Civil War, with the end of Reconstruction and the withdrawal of federal protection, constitutional guarantees quickly...

This important new study of Palestine in the years 1882 to 1948 looks at the formation of the Jewish working class and its pivotal and deliberate role in the forging of a nation. Drawing on historical studies as well as neo-Marxist theory, Professor...

Fox offers a clear and important, if brief, consideration of the fiction of Baraka, Reed, and Delany. He renders an especially important service by establishing the relationship among three fictionists whose work has been substantially neglected. . . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorvis /f Nathaniel /r comp. and ed.Book InformationISBN 9780313249303Author Nathaniel DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher Bloomsbury...

Turmoil in higher education has mounted in South Africa to a level wherein black institutions have been virtually paralyzed by conflict and occasionally transformed into armed garrisons. How this situation has come about is the subject of Nkomo's study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorcobs /f Sylvia /i M.Book InformationISBN 9780313223129Author Sylvia M. JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 311Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorucek /f Joseph /i S. enberg /f BernardBook InformationISBN 9780313220241Author Joseph S. RoucekFormat HardbackPage Count 403Imprint Praeger Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorster /f Frances /i SmithBook InformationISBN 9780313208218Author Frances Smith FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher...

Few realize that some sports were integrated, or even dominated by blacks, before becoming dominated by whites, for example, horse racing, golf, hockey, and tennis. This book provides a lens through which to view the historical context and specific...

This is a multifaceted approach to understanding one of the nation's largest ethnic communities. Blea incorporates community social history, physical, psychological, and spiritual space. The book strives to teach the student how to do research in an...

The institution of family has been central to the well-being of African societies over the years. African families have undergone significant transformation caused by the interplay of indigenous, Arabic/Islamic, and European/Christian cultures. The...

AIDS is the second-leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 18 and 44. African American women constitute 63% of all cases of AIDS among women in the United States. This volume brings together the collective wisdom of...

This volume of essays by scholars and activists focuses on the political and social relations between blacks, Latinos, and Asians in key urban centers. Collectively, the essays examine the particular status of relations between these groups, the reasons...

Contemporary American Immigrants provides an overview to the immigration history of three of the largest groups of Asian immigrants to the United States--Filipinos, Koreans, and Chinese. This timely volume addresses such questions as: how do these Asian...

This book explores crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood. It brings to light little-researched angles of social and political economies of culture and ways in which they have shifted and changed in different...

This wide ranging survey uses the latest methodological apparatus including sophisticated computer modelling techniques to identify the key political, social and economic trends which are likely to shape the East Asian region at the millennium and beyond...