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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825316556Author William BoelhowerFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 1999g

Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowledge formation that currently make legible and organize the...

A survey of contemporary Chinese intellectuals.Zhidong Hao's fascinating book, Intellectuals at a Crossroads, examines groups of contemporary Chinese intellectuals, their successes, failures, identity contradictions, and ethical dilemmas. Three...

The contributions brought together in this landmark edited collection focus on Cyrillic manuscripts and early printed editions from around 900 to 1800. They address a wide variety of topics that have not received sufficient attention in Western...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817013608Author Leon Howard SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Judson PressPublisher Judson PressWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 225mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662465130Author Charles G WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933121171Author Nat LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Black Classic PressPublisher Black Classic PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Deluded New World explores the cultural and ideological battlegrounds shaping contemporary discourse. Controversy dogs many aspects of our lives today, from denying women the security they expect in designated spaces to no longer considering God to be...

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While slavery in Canada was abolished in 1834, discrimination remained. Race on Trial contrasts formal legal equality with pervasive patterns of social, legal, and attitudinal inequality in Ontario by documenting the history of black Ontarians who...

In this first history of Arab American activism in the 1960s, Pamela Pennock brings to the forefront one of the most overlooked minority groups in the history of American social movements. Focusing on the ideas and strategies of key Arab American...

Gloria Evangelina AnzaldÚa-theorist, Chicana, feminist-famously called on scholars to do work that matters. This pronouncement was a rallying call, inspiring scholars across disciplines to become scholar-activists and to channel their intellectual energy...

A century after the first wave of Hispanic settlement in Houston, the city has come to be known as the ""Hispanic mecca of Texas."" Arnoldo De Leon's classic study of Hispanic Houston, now updated to cover recent developments and encompass a decade of...

The collected writings of a leading authority on Canada's ethnic and linguistic diversity.The collected writings of a leading authority on Canada's ethnic and linguistic diversity.About the AuthorJeffrey G. Reitz is R.F. Harney Professor of Ethnic,...

First Published in 2002. This book looks at the small groups of Japanese people who were perpetually endangered by foreign invasions, actual and potential, and even more by the disruptive forces of their own ambitious kith and kin. These people were...

While still widespread, the pernicious belief that modern Western science is synonymous with ‘science proper’ – the culturally engrained conviction that it constitutes an incomparably effective means of interrogating natural reality – has been called...

Based upon an analysis of a national survey of migration conducted in late 1986 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, this book provides analyses of the volume and direction of movement, the characteristics and motivation of those who move, and the...

Afrocentricity is a philosophical and theoretical perspective that emphasizes the study of Africans as subjects, not as objects, and is opposed to perspectives that attempt to marginalize African thought and experience. Afrocentricity became popular...

Scholars have conducted the study of culture in two general ways: as an observer science, where behavior and world-views are measurable, rational, and subject to impartial examination; and as an interpretive art, where a scholar actually participates in...

This book considers ethical culture in East Asia, examines the impact it has had on economic and social transformation, and explores what effect it might have on solving current problems. It views the ethical culture of East Asia, that is, the beliefs,...

Traditional activities, such as art and heritage crafts, certain agricultural and culinary professions, as well as various ancestral practices, represent major socio–economic challenges today. Ancient knowledge, faced with the rapid transformation of...

In August 1906, black soldiers stationed in Brownsville, Texas, were accused of going on a lawless rampage in which shots were fired, one man was killed, and another wounded. Because the perpetrators could never be positively identified, President...

These essays look at how baseball has both reflected and shaped social, economic and political change. Sports writers, commentators, players and academics offer articles on issues of class, race, and gender in baseball, describing its role in the...

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Queering Mestizaje employs theories of postcolonial cultural studies (including performance studies, queer and feminist theory) to examine the notion of mestizaje---the mixing of races, and specifically indigenous peoples, with European colonizers---and...

Chinese Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the 1970s undertakes a systematic examination of selected aspects of Peking's foreign policy, using content analysis, both quantitative and qualitative, of the media. The first study treats media images of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817305796Author Ellen TarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams)...

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The writings of Mao Zedong have been circulated throughout the world more widely, perhaps, than those of any other single person this century. The "Talks at the Yan'an Conference on Literature and Art" has occupied a prominent position among his many...

Going to Court to Change Japan takes us inside movements dealing with causes as disparate as death by overwork, the rights of the deaf, access to prisoners on death row, consumer product safety, workers whose companies go bankrupt, and persons convicted...

Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism explores the long-overlooked links between black nationalist activism and the renaissance of artistic experimentation emerging from recent African American literature, visual art, and film. GerShun Avilez...

Ecologists have long based their conceptual frameworks in the natural sciences. Recently, however, they have acknowledged that ecosystems cannot be understood without taking into account human interventions that may have taken place for thousands of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640962631Author AnonymFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 140g

Filipino Americans are now the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. As reflected in this collection, their lives represent the diversity of the immigrant experience and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798992392418Author Matthew GarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint California Curriculum CenterPublisher California Curriculum CenterWeight(grams) 544g

Congress prohibited slave trading in 1808, Lincoln University was chartered in 1854, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and in 1916 Carter G. Woodson published the first issue of Journal of Negro History--all on January 1 of...

This book examines the socio-economic factors in the rise and development of nationalism in the Tamil-speaking region of the Madras Presidency in India between 1858 and 1918. It analyses the dynamic interaction between socio-economic conditions and...

The influence of Greek culture on Michigan began long before the first Greeks arrived. The American settlers of the Old Northwest Territory had definite notions of Greeks and Greek culture. America and its developing society and culture were to be the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640253319Author David WenseFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 45g