Regional Studies

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789971695460Author NUS PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NUS PressPublisher NUS PressWeight(grams) 530gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 149mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578003054Author Jack NeelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Market Square District AssociationPublisher Market Square District...

China has witnessed great economic, political and societal changes since the reform and opening up in 1978. As China's economic system has been experiencing fundamental changes, China’s structure of governance has also been substantially altered in...

This book not only defines what European Studies actually mean, but also considers how non-unidisciplinary research could be conceptualized in this field. As an alternative concept for inter-, cross-, trans- and multi-disciplinary studies,...

No detailed description available for "Progressive Traditions in African and Oriental Studies".Book InformationISBN 9783112785881Author Siegmund BraunerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 510g

The Quest for Regional Cooperation: A Study of the New York Metropolitan Regional Council provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges and prospects of intergovernmental collaboration in one of the world's most complex metropolitan regions. The book...

Confrontation and Accommodation in Southern Africa: The Limits of Independence examines the complex regional dynamics, racial tensions, and political maneuverings within southern Africa during a period of profound social and political upheaval. The book...

Observations in Lower California by Johann Jakob Baegert provides an authentic and vivid account of life in Baja California during the mid-18th century. Written after nearly two decades of missionary work among the Indigenous people of the region,...

The Korean Studies Guide serves as a comprehensive handbook for exploring the diverse aspects of Korean culture, history, and society. Developed in 1951 under the auspices of the University of California's Institute of East Asiatic Studies, this guide...

The Korean Studies Guide serves as a comprehensive handbook for exploring the diverse aspects of Korean culture, history, and society. Developed in 1951 under the auspices of the University of California's Institute of East Asiatic Studies, this guide...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was the first national trade union for African Americans. Standard BSCP histories focus on the men who built the union. Yet the union's Ladies' Auxiliary played an essential role in shaping public debates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374298432Author Suzy HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390095575Author Tilak DevasherFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Pentagon PressPublisher Pentagon Press

This book explores the conceptions of genealogy, kinship and 'tribalism' in the intertwined construction of personhood and national identity in the Kyrgyz Republic. It makes an important contribution to several theoretical and regional debates. First, it...

Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns...

With the departure of imperial powers-and on its own for the first time in almost two centuries-the Middle East must now resolve its political, economic, cultural, and societal problems in order to advance its civilization. In this volume, historian...

In the first decade of the new millennium, Jody Allen Randolph interviewed twenty-two leading Irish poets, artists, fiction writers and playwrights to create a record of how the makers of a culture saw their country as it moved into a new era. Her...

Imagine Otherwise is an incisive critique of the field of Asian American studies. Recognizing that the rubric "Asian American" elides crucial differences, Kandice Chuh argues for reframing Asian American studies as a study defined not by its subjects and...

The Quest for Regional Cooperation: A Study of the New York Metropolitan Regional Council provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges and prospects of intergovernmental collaboration in one of the world's most complex metropolitan regions. The book...

Confrontation and Accommodation in Southern Africa: The Limits of Independence examines the complex regional dynamics, racial tensions, and political maneuverings within southern Africa during a period of profound social and political upheaval. The book...

The inspiring new book about Britain’s abandoned and neglected places, the opportunities they present for business and communities, and how they can help us face the challenges of climate change.'This is not just a grassroots manual for 21st century...

This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature,...

This volume provides an overview of fundamental or 'grounding' themes in African Cultural Studies, including the articulation of African cultural studies, the issue of Africa's diaspora(s), African identity and identifications, and media studies in...

Regional integration was identified many years ago as being critical to Africa's quest to overcome its colonially induced underdevelopment. To encourage this, several potentially significant programmes or projects have been stillborn or inadequately...

This volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies has taken over the years and covers the following central themes: contemporary issues in African cultural studies; Gender and the making of identity; the dual discourses of Afropessimism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783643906618Author Samuel NdogoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit VerlagWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 159mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848702268Author Florian AdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592214716Author Ann SeidmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 369g

Christina Clark-Kazak, a former international aid worker, uses extensive interviews done in Kampala and Kyaka II refugee settlement, Uganda, to present the narratives of ten young people living as refugees. Their accounts reveal both political awareness...

Prosperous countries have a socio-economic operating system, which India lacks. This book argues that India must incorporate a structure aligned with its collective identity to compete globally for wealth creation. The book, divided into three...

Inspired by the "spatial turn," this volume links for the first time the study of diplomacy and spatiality in the premodern Islamicate world to understand practices and meanings ascribed to territory and realms.Debates on the nature of the sovereign...

The South China Sea (SCS) has been in the spotlight since the Permanent Court of Arbitration's ruling in 2016, favouring the Philippines on its maritime entitlements. China rejected the verdict and militarized the islands while asserting its 'historic...

Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this background, the contributors to this volume...

Although possessing a common physical heritage, the Sonoran Desert has taken on highly contrasting forms in its American and Mexican portions. This work does not, therefore, attempt a regional study in the usual sense of the term, but is rather an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLouis R. Harlan is author of Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 and professor of history at the University of Maryland. Raymond W...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252006661Author Booker T WashingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 602Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams)...

To Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadianstudies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. Indiscussing this comprehensive examination of culture, Hoerderhighlights its unique interdisciplinary approach, which included...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789067182911Author Freek ColombijnFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint K.I.T.L.V.Publisher K.I.T.L.V.Weight(grams) 834g