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This unique survey of the evolution of the modern Chinese national character incorporates a rich blend of history and theory as well as nation, gender, and film studies. It begins with the dawn of the concept of "nation" in China at the end of the...

The product of five years of North American Taiwan Studies Conferences, this book carefully analyzes the emergence of national feelings in Taiwan, its historical roots and its contemporary manifestations. It addresses questions central to the looming...

This collection fills the need for a resource that adequately conceptualizes the place of non-European histories in the larger narrative of world history. These essays were selected with special emphasis on their comparative outlook. The chapters range...

Although performance pay is used in many industrialized nations, the structure and success of this pay system vary widely depending on the institutions, regulatory framework, and legal settings of each country. This book makes the details and effects of...

This unique resource will be an enormous aid and impetus to Churchill studies. It lists over 600 works, with annotations, and includes sections listing an additional 5,900 entries covering book reviews, significant articles, and chapters from books...

During the past quarter century Jonathan Unger has interviewed farmers and rural officials from various parts of China in order to track the extraordinary changes that have swept the countryside from the Maoist era through the Deng era to the present day...

Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either the Chinese Communist revolution or the Cultural...

Between 1910 and 1945 the United States transformed itself into a Super Power. By 1945, with rivals in Europe and Asia shattered by world war, she dominated global economic, financial and political arrangements and monopolised the atomic bomb. This new...

The relationship between the US and Europe in the 20th century is one of the key considerations in any understanding of international relations/international history during this period. David Ryan first sets the context by looking at the trends and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899719994Author Marion StangeFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847107231Author Eva YoukhanaFormat HardbackPage Count 197Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 460g

In the last decades, many countries in Latin America underwent a transition from dictatorship to democracy. Truth commissions were an essential instrument of uncovering politically motivated crimes and serious human rights violations. However, in many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931745895Author Christopher B. DonnanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLAPublisher Cotsen Institute of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931745598Author Brian S. BauerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLAPublisher Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931745345Author Brian S. BauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLAPublisher Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at...

In 2016, the Janeway Childrens Health and Rehabilitation Centre -- "The Janeway" to most -- celebrated 50 years of operation. For 43 of those years, Dr Rick Cooper has been a paediatrician at the hospital, helping thousands of sick children...

In 1904, Assiniboine Park was conceived as a peoplesplayground, a place devoid of commercial amusementswhere all classes of Winnipeggers could relax andrejuvenate in idyllic and Arcadian surroundings.The book traces the development of the park and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585810468Author Debe BranningFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint American TravelerPublisher American TravelerWeight(grams) 262g

Long after the Mexican-American War brought the Southwest under the United States flag, Anglos and Hispanics within the region continued to struggle for dominion. From the arrival of railroads through the height of the New Deal, Sarah Deutsch explores...

Drawing extensively from agency records, newspaper accounts, sociological studies and court documents, Hough explores the experiences of rural white unwed mothers in Maine and Tennessee.Book InformationISBN 9781138665071Author Mazie HoughFormat...

New Homes for Old was one of ten volumes published by the Carnegie Corporation on "Methods of Americanization." Reappearing near the end of four decades of massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, the volumes were "to give as...

In Liberalism, Puritanism and the Colonial Mind, Parrington gives a brilliant account of the beginning and development in American letters, the early ideas that have come to be reckoned as traditionally American how they came into being, how they were...

Ideologues and Presidents argues that ideologues have been gaining influence in the modern presidency. There were plenty of ideologues in the New Deal, but they worked at cross purposes and could not count on the backing of the cagey pragmatist in the...

This is the thirty-first volume in Religion and Public Life, formerly This World, a series on religion and public affairs. This ongoing series seeks to provide a wide-ranging forum for differing views on religious and ethical considerations. The essays...

The "progressive" reading of history focuses on two major antecedents for the origins of the United States' 1898 war with Spain: the 1896 presidential election and the Hearst-Pulitzer press war that, reportedly, generated an irresistible clamor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888396051Author John A. SellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

AP Teachers’ #1 Choice!Ready to succeed in your AP course and ace your exam? Our 5 Steps to a 5 guides explain the tough stuff, offer tons of practice and explanations, and help you make the most efficient use of your study time. 5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S...

Modern democracy is being reshaped by the commitment to fighting discrimination. How is it that anti-discrimination politics is today surrounded by controversy on every side—critical race theory, the 1619 Project, cancel culture, etc.—but is at the same...

Comprehensive account of right-wing and conservative politics in North and South AmericaFeatures ten case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, the United States, Uruguay and VenezuelaEach chapter written to the same...

How can the West rediscover its authentic spirit? Exploring the period from 1899 to 1945 – from the end of the US frontier and the writing of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to the conclusion of World War II and the dropping of the atom bomb – Luigi Morelli...

Issues of race and ethnicity in Latin America continue to gain a growing amount of academic attention. While themes of ethnic identities, indigeneity, and race relations are commonly examined in our respective disciplines, it is less common to bring...

Peru is a silent and mysterious world, a land of solemn and impressive landscapes, sometimes terrifying but in harmony with the forces of nature and the universe. It is also the land of the proud, often silent but always resolute descendants of the...

Walking the Stations of the Cross, the Christian faithful re-create the Passion, following the sorrowful path of Jesus Christ from condemnation to crucifixion. While this devotion, now so popular in the Catholic Church and many Protestant denominations,...

Costa Rica has been largely recognized as a democratic and politically stable country in a region (Central America) characterized by instability, dictatorships, and social inequality. Several social and institutional problems have risen during the last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926991320Author Jan KrijffFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Granville Island PublishingPublisher Granville Island PublishingWeight(grams) 440g

The Hunted Whale is a spectacular photographic exploration of the material culture of American whaling in the age of sail. Before the coming of steam and diesel ships with instruments of mechanized slaughter, the hunt was a relatively even contest...

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Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush,...

A person’s scrapbook can tell a lot about a person’s life or one period of someone’s life--joys and sorrow, challenges and successes, problems and solutions. Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and her Military Sisters focuses on a four-year period from...

Recalling the full significance of the contact made between Europe and the Americas, this book shows how the encounter of two ""old worlds"" gave rise to a truly new world on both sides of the Atlantic. From astronomy to food, the...