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Taylor & Francis Ltd Leaky Bodies and Boundaries
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Taylor & Francis A Dictionary of Chinese Characters
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Taylor & Francis Chinese Poems China History Philosophy Economics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd India The Ancient Past
Book SynopsisIndia: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era. The book engages with methodological and controversial issues by examining key themes such as the Indus-Sarasvati civilization, the Aryan controversy, the development of Vedic and heterodox religions, and the political economy and social life of ancient Indian kingdoms. This fully revised and updated second edition includes: Three new chapters examining the differences and commonalities between the north and south of India; Extended discussion on contested issues, such as the origins of the Aryans and the role of feudalism in ancient India; New source excerpts to introduce students to the most significant works in the hTrade ReviewPraise of the first edition: 'An engaging narrative of a complex civilization.' – Minerva 'Burjor Avari's balanced and well-researched book is a most reliable guide to the period of Indian history that it covers. It displays considerable mastery of primary and secondary literature and distils it into a wonderfully lucid exposition. This book should be of interest to both lay readers and academic experts'. - Lord Bhikhu Parekh, University of Westminster Praise of this edition: 'This book is the ideal guide to India’s ancient past. In this updated and expanded edition, it is a more useful resource than ever, offering students and teachers alike a comprehensive and balanced overview of the key trajectories and debates in the history of pre-modern India. It deftly handles controversial issues and through its carefully curated selection of source materials invites the reader’s direct engagement with this riveting history.' Sebastian R. Prange, University of British Columbia, Canada 'With great equanimity and poise, India: The Ancient Past does an excellent job of presenting one of the world’s splendid pasts. Equipped with rich details, lucid prose, and accessible materials, it is up-to-date with current scholarship and presents a concise yet detailed chapter-by-chapter denouement of the broad sweeps of ancient India’s history . Brevity of topics, primary source extracts, and insightful analyses are a few among the many features that make this textbook a joy to teach with.' M. Raisur Rahman, Wake Forest University, USA 'India: The Ancient Past improves hugely upon other college texts on the eras from the Stone Age to 1200 CE, in that it is accessible, comprehensive, politically neutral, often entertaining, and remarkably explanatory. This new edition is even better than the first on all counts, and is the best I have seen in over 40 years of teaching.'Richard Barnett, University of Virginia, USA Praise of the first edition: 'An engaging narrative of a complex civilization.' – Minerva 'Burjor Avari's balanced and well-researched book is a most reliable guide to the period of Indian history that it covers. It displays considerable mastery of primary and secondary literature and distils it into a wonderfully lucid exposition. This book should be of interest to both lay readers and academic experts'. - Lord Bhikhu Parekh, University of Westminster Praise of this edition: 'This book is the ideal guide to India’s ancient past. In this updated and expanded edition, it is a more useful resource than ever, offering students and teachers alike a comprehensive and balanced overview of the key trajectories and debates in the history of pre-modern India. It deftly handles controversial issues and through its carefully curated selection of source materials invites the reader’s direct engagement with this riveting history.' Sebastian R. Prange, University of British Columbia, Canada 'With great equanimity and poise, India: The Ancient Past does an excellent job of presenting one of the world’s splendid pasts. Equipped with rich details, lucid prose, and accessible materials, it is up-to-date with current scholarship and presents a concise yet detailed chapter-by-chapter denouement of the broad sweeps of ancient India’s history . Brevity of topics, primary source extracts, and insightful analyses are a few among the many features that make this textbook a joy to teach with.' M. Raisur Rahman, Wake Forest University, USA 'India: The Ancient Past improves hugely upon other college texts on the eras from the Stone Age to 1200 CE, in that it is accessible, comprehensive, politically neutral, often entertaining, and remarkably explanatory. This new edition is even better than the first on all counts, and is the best I have seen in over 40 years of teaching.'Richard Barnett, University of Virginia, USA Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. From Africa to Mehrgarh 3. The Harappan Civilization 4. The Indo-Aryans in the Vedic Age 5. Formative Centuries of the Pre-Mauryan Era 6. The Paradox of Mauryan Imperialism 7. Diffusion and Dynamism after the Mauryas 8. Stability and Change Under the Imperial Guptas 9. The Post-Gupta Era and the Rise of the South 10. Regionalism and Feudalism: Rajput, Pala and 296 Rashtrakuta Kingdoms 11. Chola Domination in the South and Turco-Afhan Plunder in the North
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Taylor & Francis Americaâs Horror Stories
Book SynopsisAmericaâs Horror Stories: U.S. History through Dark Tourism conducts a ghost tour(ist) methodology to explore how slavery and racism are represented in dark tourism via ghost tours.The authors travel to key sites of racist U.S. history, including Salem, Massachusetts, where a witch panic was sparked by accusations of witchcraft by Tituba, an enslaved woman practicing Voodoo; New Orleans, Louisiana, which hosts the largest slave trade market; the Myrtles Plantation in Francisville, Louisiana; and to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where the bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place, marking a pivotal moment to end slavery in the nationâbut where Confederate ghosts are said to continue roaming the town and battlefield. Acting as research ghost hunters/tourists, the authors go on walking and bus tours, visit historical monuments, stay at haunted hotels, ponder objects in haunted museums, and do some ghost hunting of their own. They find that the ghosts conjured by tour guide
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University of California Press The Scarcity Slot
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa's deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of the scarcity slot,' a kind of Othering based on presumed differences in resources. Weaving together archaeological, historical, and environmental data with food ethnography, she advances a new approach to building long-term histories of food security on the continent in order to combat these stereotypes. Focusing on a case study in Banda, Ghana that spans the past six centuries, The Scarcity Slot reveals that people thrived during a severe, centuries-long drought just as Europeans arrived on the coast, with a major decline in food security emerging only recently. This narrative radically challenges how we think about African foodways in the past with major implications for the future.Trade Review"The book provides an accessible way to understand the foodstuffs and foodways in the region and contains an impressive review of the food literature written in English. It is also methodologically exemplary for food archaeology analyses. I highly recommend this book to a large audience interested in West Africa, to specialised archaeobotanists, and also to archaeologists who will here be shown the potential of food archaeology." * Journal of African Archaeology *“This masterful book is essential reading for Africanist students, scholars, policymakers, and anyone else interested in African food security and how the past can inform and shape the present.” * African Archaeological Review *"[Logan] builds a strong argument for using excavation of soil, of histories, of cuisines as a key method for food studies. . . .the African continent should be an essential component of food inquiry and education; Logan provides a framework for where to begin." * Gastronomica *"This is a superb book which calls into question many basic assumptions about African agricultural productivity and food history. It is beautifully argued and thoroughly documented. . . . The Scarcity Slot not only makes a hugely important contribution to the study of African food histories but also demonstrates the need for a much more nuanced understanding of Africa as a whole." * Ethnoarchaeology *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Kashmir and the Future of South Asia
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Columbia University Press Sources of East Asian Tradition
Book SynopsisTakes a look at the writings from the earliest times to 1600; the origins of Korean culture and political structures, up through the Choson dynasty; and developments in early and medieval Japan. This book includes readings in the areas of history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion.Trade ReviewThe selections are excellent, translations faithful and elegant, and introductions terse and to the point. If I were asked to recommend only one book for anyone who wishes to know something about Chinese culture, I would name, without a moment of hesitation, Sources of Chinese Tradition. -- Ying-shih Yu, Princeton University [Sources of Korean Tradition provides] a unique view of Korean history via the eyes and words of the participants and/or witnesses themselves. Official documents, letters, policies and personal opinions written by the people who helped make Korea, reveal the Korea that most outsiders would never know. Korean Quarterly Sources of Japanese Tradition has proved to be invaluable to the study of Japanese history and culture. Its publication is welcome news to teachers and students of Japanese civilization and all those who are interested in the origins of contemporary Japanese society and culture. -- Akira Iriye, author of Cultural Internationalism and World Order This title is recommended for academic libraries for their history and Asian collections. -- Kay M. Stebbins American Reference Books AnnualTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I. Traditional China Explanatory Note Contributors Chronology 1. The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of the Late Shang Dynasty, by David N. Keightley 2. Classical Sources of Chinese Tradition, by Burton Watson, David S. Nivison, Irene Bloom 3. Confucius and the Analects, by Irene Bloom 4. Mozi: Utility, Uniformity, and Universal Love, by Burton Watson 5. The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi 6. The Evolution of the Confucian Tradition in Antiquity 7. Legalists and Militarists 8. The Han Reaction to Qin Absolutism 9. Syncretic Visions of State, Society, and Cosmos, by Harold Roth, Sarah Queen, Nathan Sivin 10. The Imperial Order and Han Syntheses 11. The Economic Order, by Burton Watson 12. The Great Han Historians, by Burton Watson 13. Learning of the Mysterious, by Richard John Lynn, Wing-Tsit Chan 14. Daoist Religion, by Nathan Sivin, Kristofer Schipper 15. The Introduction of Buddhism, by Leon Hurvitz, Tsai Heng-Ting 16. Schools of Buddhist Doctrine, by Leon Hurvitz, Burton Watson, Daniel Stevenson, George Tanabe, Wing-Tsit Chan 17. Schools of Buddhist Practice, by Leon Hurvitz, Daniel Stevenson, Philip B. Yampolsky, Chun-Fang Yu 18. Social Life and Political Culture in the Tang 19. The Confucian Revival in the Song, by Wm. Theodore de Bary 20. Neo-Confucianism: The Philosophy of Human Nature and the Way of the Sage 21. Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian Program, by Wm. Theodore de Bary 22. Ideological Foundations of Late Imperial China, by Wm. Theodore de Bary, Edward Farmer, John Dardess 23. Neo-Confucian Education, by Wm. Theodore de Bary 24. Self and Society in the Ming Part II. Traditional Korea Explanatory Note Contributors Chronology 25. Origins of Korean Culture 26. The Rise of the Three Kingdoms 27. The Introduction of Buddhism 28. Consolidation of the State 29. The Rise of Buddhism 30. Local Clans and the Rise of the Meditation School 31. Early Koryo Political Structure 32. Military Rule and Late Koryo Reform 33. Buddhism: The Ch'0nt'ae and Chogye Schools 34. Neo-Confucianism 35. Political Thought in Early Choson 36. Culture 37. Social Life 38. Economy 39. Thought 40. Buddhism Part III. Traditional Japan Explanatory Note Contributors Chronology 41. The Earliest Records of Japan 42. Early Shinto 43. Prince Shotoku and His Constitution 44. Chinese Thought and Institutions in Early Japan 45. Nara Buddhism 46. Saicho and Mount Hiei, by Ryusaku Tsunoda, Paul Groner 47. Kukai and Esoteric Buddhism 48. Amida, the Pure Land, and the Response of the Old Buddhism to the New 49. New Views of History, by Paul Varley 50. The Way of the Warrior, by Paul Varley 51. Nichiren: The Sun and the Lotus, by Philip B. Yampolsky 52. Zen Buddhism, by William Bodiford 53. Shinto in Medieval Japan 54. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics 55. Women's Education 56. Law and Precepts for the Warrior Houses, by Paul Varley 57. The Regime of the Unifiers, by Jurgis S. A. Elisonas Bibliography Index
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Frozen In Time: The Fagel Collection in the
Book Synopsis‘Hendrik Fagel the Younger (1765–1838), Greffier or Chief Minister of Holland, had the misfortune to have his property seized by invading French forces in the winter of 1794–5, but managed to secure the release of his family art collection and library, which were shipped to him in London in 1798. Being in straitened circumstances he decided to sell them and negotiations took place for the purchase of the library for Trinity College.’ So begins Charles Benson’s introduction to Frozen in Time, a collection of the papers presented at the recent Fagel Symposium, held at Trinity College, Dublin, with the explicit purpose of making this astonishing resource better known outside College walls. During their two centuries of public service to the States-General and Holland, the Fagel family built up one of the most important private libraries in early modern Europe, with holdings in history, politics and law as well as every other area of human endeavour: belles lettres, philosophy and theology, geography and travel, natural history and the visual arts. This lavishly illustrated volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the symposium as well as new articles, covering subjects as diverse as early Dutch book collections and plans of the cosmos, botanical sales catalogues, pamphlets on the bloody 1641 Rebellion in Ireland, Italian Renaissance poetry and the vicissitudes of the Huguenots. As the first comprehensive study of this hugely important and hitherto relatively unknown collection – one of the most important private libraries in early modern Europe – the volume will be of immense value to scholars and general readers.
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The University of Chicago Press Bringing the Empire Home Race Class and Gender in
Book SynopsisZine Magubane tracks colonial images of blackness from South Africa to England and back again to reveal the often overlooked links among ideologies of race, class, and gender.
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University of California Press Class Acts
Book SynopsisGoes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests. This work offers an analysis of what the luxury service consists of, how managers organize its production, and how workers and guests negotiate the inequality between them.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Luxury Service and the New Economy 1. "Better Than Your Mother": The Luxury Product 2. Managing Autonomy 3. Games, Control, and Skill 4. Recasting Hierarchy 5. Reciprocity, Relationship, and Revenge 6. Producing Entitlement Conclusion: Class, Culture, and the Service Theater Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Hotel Organization Appendix C: Jobs, Wages, and Nonmanagerial Workers in Each Hotel: 2000--2001 Notes References Index
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Godwired
Book SynopsisGodwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences, like stories, games and rituals, are forms of world-building or cosmos construction that serve as a means of making sense of our own world. Such creative and interactive activity is, arguably, patently religious.This book examines: the nature of sacred space in virtual contexts technology as a vehicle for sacred texts who we are when we go online what rituals have in common with games and how they work online what happens to community when people worship online how religious worlds and virtual worlds nurture similar desires. Rachel Wagner suggests that whilst our engagement with virtual reality can be viewed as a form of religious activity, today's virtual religion marks a radical departure from traditional religious practice it is Trade Review'Godwired is a timely, relevant, and sophisticated book. It is an insightful, well-informed discussion of game theories, storytelling, and the religious imagination, offering a convincing argument about how playing games can, at times, participate in the construction of worlds, and worlds of meaning.' – Gary Laderman, Emory University, USA'Rachel Wagner explores the intersection of the two other-worlds known to human beings; the supernatural world of the spiritual, and the virtual world created by on-line communication technologies. In doing so, she brings new light to scholarship in both religious studies and new media studies, both of which can profit from her research in this book. It is a fascinating study that is sure to provoke further discussion.' – Mark J. P. Wolf, Concordia University Wisconsin, USA'Wagner goes far beyond simply demonstrating the presence of something the religious scholar would recognize in games, web sites, and Second Life. She helps us understand the religious and theological implications of the emerging media culture and identify as well as understand the locations of the religious impulse within it. […] Readable and teachable, the book holds clear promise to advance the emerging discourse on religion and virtual reality.' – Jeffrey H. Mahan, Iliff School of Theology, USA in Religious Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. Walkthrough 2. The Stories We Play: Interactivity And Religious Narrative 3. The Games We Pray: What Is This Ritual-Game-Story Thing? 4. The Other Right Here: In Search of the Virtual Sacred 5. Me, Myself and Ipod: Hybrid, Wired and Plural Selves 6. God-Mobs: Virtually Religious Community 7. What You Play is What You Do? Procedural Evil and Videogame Violence 8. Xbox Apocalypse: Video Games, Interactivity and Revelatory Literature 9. Making Belief: Transmedia and the Hunger for the Real 10. Expansion Pack
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Perspectives on bell hooks
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Harvard University, Asia Center On Sacred Grounds
Book SynopsisThe authors analyze the social, cultural, and political meaning attached to the cult of Confucius; its history; the legends, images, and rituals associated with it; the power of the descendants of Confucius; the main temple in the birthplace of Confucius; and the contemporary fate of temples to Confucius.
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PRH Grupo Editorial La cuarta espada La historia de Abima el GuzmÃn y
Book SynopsisLa cuarta espada es una rigurosa investigación periodística sobre Sendero Luminoso y su líder, Abimael Guzmán. Casi 70.000 muertos produjo la guerra entre el movimiento terrorista Sendero Luminoso y el Estado peruano entre los años ochenta y noventa. Responsable de más de la mitad de las víctimas, Sendero fue el grupo subversivo más letal en la historia del continente americano. Abimael Guzmán, el hombre que condujo toda esa violencia y se considera a sí mismo como la «cuarta espada» del comunismo internacional tras Lenin, Stalin y Mao, no llevaba armas. No tenía poyo de Gobiernos extranjeros. Ni siquiera estaba presente en el campo de batalla. Detrás de un escritorio, armado con una rigurosa ideología, puso en jaque a todo un país durante doce años. Su historia constituye un escalofriante ejemplo del poder destructor de las ideas. ¿Cómo se convirtió Guzmán en un objeto de culto capaz de inspirar entre los suyos misiones kamikazes? ¿Quiénes eran sus soldados? ¿Cómo eran el amor y el odio entre ellos? La cuarta espada es la primera descripción de las relaciones humanas en el interior de una cúpula terrorista Sendero Luminoso con información proporcionada por sus protagonistas. Pero más allá del documento periodístico, este libro se lee como una novela en la tradición de A sangre fría, una inmersión en la mente del asesino, un retrato del Mal. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Fourth Sword is a rigorous journalistic investigation about the Shining Path terrorist group in Peru and its leader Abimael Guzman. Almost 70,000 deaths were caused by the civil war between the Shining Path terrorist movement and the Peruvian government during the eighties and nineties. Responsible for more than half of the victims, Shining Path was the most deadly and dangerous subversive group ever in the history of Latin America. Abimael Guzman, the man who led such violence and considers himself to be the fourth sword of international communism after Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, was not armed. He had no support from foreign governments, and he did not even set foot on the battlefield. Sitting behind a desk and armed with a rigorous ideology, he brought turmoil to the entire country for twelve years. His story depicts a chilling example of the destructive power of ideology. How did Guzman become such a cult leader capable of encouraging kamikaze missions among his followers? Who were his soldiers? How was the love-hate relationship between them? The Fourth Sword is the first-hand account of personal relationships inside a Shining Path terrorist group with information and accounts provided to the author by its protagonists. This work goes much further than a journalistic investigation, it reads like a a novel; it is an immersion into the mind of a murderer.
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Taylor & Francis The Uyghur Lobby
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Taylor & Francis Indiaâs Water Futures
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University of British Columbia Press Unbuilt Environments
Book SynopsisIn the latter half of the twentieth century, legions of industrial pioneers came to northwestern British Columbia with grand plans for mines, dams, and energy-development schemes. Yet many of their projects failed to materialize or were abandoned midstream. Unbuilt Environments reveals that these lapsed resource projects had lasting effects on the natural and human environment. Drawing on a range of case studies to analyze the social and environmental impacts of unfinished projects, Jonathan Peyton considers development failure a productive concept for northwestern Canada. He looks at a closed asbestos mine, an abandoned rail grade, an imagined series of hydroelectric installations, a failed LNG export facility, and a transmission line and finds that these unrealized developments continue to shape contemporary resource conflicts.Trade ReviewUnbuilt Environments is an enthralling book … [and] a great contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary narrative on resource development conflicts in northwest British Columbia, a region that is currently the site of intense mining exploration and controversy over energy projects. Drawing on fieldwork throughout northwest British Columbia and on research which is both eloquent and honest, Unbuilt Environments is a practical, accessible, and reliable resource from a respected emerging researcher. I strongly recommend this book for the expert and non-expert. -- Rajiv Thakur, Missouri State University, West Plains * Polymath *Unbuilt Environments provides an even-handed discussion of development in a region that remains relatively aloof from capital investment and integration into the global economy. -- Gordon Hak * NiCHE, Network in Canadian History & Environment *Jonathan Peyton by bringing to light the history of these spasmodic industrial developments in the north has done an immense public service. His research is comprehensive, his analysis precise, his tone moderate and dispassionate. Indeed, there are moments when the reader, overwhelmed by Peyton’s revelations, the scale of the corruption, the extent of the folly, the aggregate waste of tax payers’ wealth, almost wishes for a more emotional reaction from the author. Yet the great strength of the book is its restraint, for the facts and history alone provide sufficient indictment. -- Wade Davis * The Ormsby Review *Table of ContentsForeword: How Shall We Live? / Graeme WynnIntroduction: The Stikine Watershed and the Unbuilt Environment1 Cassiar, Asbestos: How to Know a Place2 Liberating Stranded Resources: The Dease Lake Extension as the Railway to Nowhere3 Corporate Ecology: BC Hydro, Failure, and the Stikine-Iskut Project4 “Industry for the future”: Dome Petroleum and the Afterlives of “Aggressive” Development5 Transmission: Contesting Energy and Enterprise in the New Northwest Gold RushConclusion: The Tumbling GeographyAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beppe Grillos Five Star Movement
Book SynopsisIn 2009 Beppe Grillo, a well-known Italian comedian, established the Five Star Movement with the aim of sending a handful of citizens to municipal councils to act as the watchdog of a professional political class often perceived as corrupt and self-interested. However, in the Italian general elections of February 2013, despite still largely being considered a small protest movement, the party gained the undisputed role of leading political actor gaining just under 9 million votes and sending 163 Deputies and Senators to the Italian parliament. The birth and rapid rise of the Five Star Movement represents an electoral earthquake with no parallels in Italy and the whole of post-1945 Western Europe and a phenomenon likely to shape the Italian political scene for many years to come. Drawing on an extensive array of data and face-to-face interviews, this volume offers an empirically grounded explanation of the surprising electoral success of the Five Star Movement and presents a realistic pTrade Review’The Five-Star Movement is one of the most interesting political phenomena in contemporary Europe. Filippo Tronconi has put together a fine volume that looks in detail at the factors underpinning the remarkable success of this movement. It is essential reading not only for those interested in Italy, but for all students of party politics.’ Duncan McDonnell, Griffith University, Australia ’The Five Star Movement of Beppe Grillo was the great surprise of the 2013 elections in Italy. Understanding what kind of "political animal" it is, and what its future role in Italian politics will be is a major puzzle for Italy watchers. The book edited by Filippo Tronconi is the best guide so far for anyone seriously interested in understanding this new phenomenon.’ Maurizio Cotta, University of Siena, Italy '... is there something so special about M5S (Movimento 5 Stelle) that accounts for its unprecedented success? Using a wide range of research tools the contributors to this volume offer a comprehensive approach to the party, describing and often deconstructing the characteristics and paradoxes that account for its unexpected popularity that could eventually determine its future political viability. ... a comprehensible guide to the rise of the M5S and an essential reading for those interested not only in Italian politics, but also in anti-system, Euro-sceptic and populist movements in Europe.' LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction, FilippoTronconi; Chapter 1 Beppe Grillo and the Movimento 5 Stelle, RinaldoVignati; Chapter 2 The Organization of the Movimento 5 Stelle, RinaldoVignati; Chapter 3 Between Blog, Social Networks and Territory, Maria ElisabettaLanzone, FilippoTronconi; Chapter 4 The Electoral Base, AndreaPedrazzani, LucaPinto; Chapter 5 From ‘Citizens’ to Members of Parliament, LucaPinto, AndreaPedrazzani; Chapter 6 An Internet-Fuelled Party? The Movimento 5 Stelle and the Web, LorenzoMosca, CristianVaccari, AugustoValeriani; Chapter 7 The Movimento 5 Stelle and Social Conflicts, LorenzoMosca; Chapter 8 A Vote(r) Like Any Other? Exploring the Protest Component in the Vote for the Movimento 5 Stelle, GianlucaPassarelli, DarioTuorto; Chapter 9 Beyond Protest, PasqualeColloca, PiergiorgioCorbetta; Chapter 10 Conclusion, FilippoTronconi;
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Taylor & Francis Discourse Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan
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Taylor & Francis Selections from Subh alAshÄ by alQalqashandi Clerk of the Mamluk Court
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Taylor & Francis Premchand in World Languages
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Princeton University Press Weak Strongman
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize""[Frye’s] research is impressive. This timely, evidence-based account persuades." * Publishers Weekly *"With deft prose, deep and insightful analysis, and considerable supporting evidence, Frye not only counters, but dismantles, the overly simplistic and lazy narratives of Russia under Putin."---Joshua Huminski, Diplomatic Courier"Frye’s splendid book is a major contribution to the literature."---Alexander Brakel, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia
Book SynopsisThis handbook offers an overview of the main issues regarding the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual and artistic history of the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Muslim rule (eighthfifteenth centuries). A comprehensive list of primary and secondary sources attests the vitality of the academic study of al-Andalus (= Muslim Iberia) and its place in present-day discussions about the past and the present.The contributors are all specialists with diverse backgrounds providing different perspectives and approaches. The volume includes chapters dealing with the destiny of the Muslim population after the Christian conquest and with the posterity of al-Andalus in art, literature and different historiographical traditions. The chapters are organised in the following sections: Political history, concentrating on rulers and armies Social, religious and economic groups Intellectual and cultural developmentsTrade Review"The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia is a collection of essays written by thirty authors and serves as a guide to al-Andalus, defined geographically as the territory in the Iberian peninsula under Islamic rule between 711 and 1492. The volume also includes North African kingdoms that ruled over Iberian territories, and Andalusi populations and their descendants who came under the authority of Iberian Christian rulers beginning in the late eleventh century. The Handbook is directed toward both nonspecialist readers interested in exploring aspects of the Andalusi past, including poetry, art, and architecture, and researchers interested in an introduction to the themes of current and past scholarship and the main written and material sources for studying aspects of the politics, society, and culture of al-Andalus. "[The book] is designed to be picked up for reference and encourage further exploration of topics and themes in Andalusi history. The chapters are well conceived and authoritative. The book may also be read from beginning to end for an effective, multivocal overview of what scholars ask and think about al-Andalus." Janina Safran, Journal of the American Oriental Society 143.4 (2023) Table of ContentsIntroduction. Maribel Fierro PART I. Rulers 1. The Iberian Peninsula before the Muslim conquest. Iñaki Martín Viso 2. The conquerors and the formation of al-Andalus. Jesús Lorenzo 3. Centralization and consolidation. The Cordoban Umayyads and the Amirids. Xavier Ballestin 4. Replication and fragmentation. The Taifa kingdoms. Alejandro García Sanjuán 5. Berber rule and Abbasid legitimacy. The Almoravids. Camilo Gomez-Rivas 6. Berber rule and the Maghribi caliphate. The Almohads. Pascal Buresi 7. Resistance and adaptation. The Nasrids. Francisco Vidal-Castro 8. The coins of al-Andalus. Ideological evolution and historical context. Tawfiq Ibrahim and Ruth Pliego PART 2. Society 9. Arabs, Berbers, and local converts. Jessica Coope 10. Christians, Jews, and the dhimma status. David J. Wasserstein 11. Women and slaves. Manuela Marin 12. Traders and peasants. Pierre Guichard 13. Secretaries and the running of government. Bruna Soravia 14. Scholars, jurists, and the legal system. Maribel Fierro 15. Ascetics and Sufis. José Bellver PART 3. Culture 16. Poetry and literature. Teresa Garulo 17. Religious sciences. Camilla Adang 18. Historiography and geography. Víctor de Castro León 19. Philosophy. Sarah Stroumsa 20. Sciences and technology. Mònica Rius-Piniés 21. Art and architecture. Susana Calvo Capilla 22. Material culture. José C. Carvajal López 23. Daily life and popular culture. Alejandro García Sanjuán PART 4. The aftermath of al-Andalus 24. Living as Muslims under Christian rule. The Mudejars. Filomena Barros 25. The forced conversions and the Moriscos. Mayte Green-Mercado 26. The integration of al-Andalus in Islamic historiography. The view from the Maghrib and the Mashriq. Luis Molina 27. The memory of al-Andalus in early modern Spain. Fernando Rodríguez Mediano 28. Writing on al-Andalus in the modern Islamic world. Christina Civantos 29. Writing the history of al-Andalus. Spain and the West. Alejandro García Sanjuán 30. The Alhambra around the world. Images and constructions of an aesthetic paradigm of modernity. José Miguel Puerta Vílchez 31. The politics and aesthetics of Convivencia. Manuela Ceballos
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Penguin Putnam Inc Grand Delusion
Book SynopsisA longtime American foreign policy insider’s penetrating and definitive reckoning with this country’s involvement in the Middle East—and its bitter endThe culmination of almost forty years at the highest levels of policymaking and scholarship, Grand Delusion is Steven Simon’s tour de force, offering a comprehensive and deeply informed account of U.S. engagement in the Middle East. Simon begins with the Reagan administration, when American perception of the Middle East shifted from a cluster of faraway and frequently skirmishing nations to a shining, urgent opportunity for America to (in Reagan’s words) “serve the cause of world peace and the future of mankind.”Reagan fired the starting gun on decades of deepening American involvement, but as the global economy grew, bringing an increasing reliance on oil, U.S. diplomatic and military energies were ever more fatefully absorbed by the Middle East until the Obama admi
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Alfred A. Knopf The Land of Hope and Fear
Book SynopsisAn urgent, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, and the external threats to their country, at a critical juncture in its history. • Through moving narratives and on-the-ground reporting, a veteran New York Times correspondent who has spent decades working in Israel reveals what holds the country together.“A wondrous tale told through the agonizing and uplifting stories of Israel’s many tribes — Jewish and Arab, religious and secular, new immigrants and veterans, soldiers and settlers.”—Martin Indyk, author of Master of the Game, and former U.S. ambassador to IsraelFor anyone trying to understand the reality of Israel today.”—Dennis Ross, former U.S. envoy to the Middle East and the author of Doomed to SucceedDespite Israel's determined staying power in a hostile environment, its military might, an
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Taylor & Francis Omar Khayyam
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Taylor & Francis Swami Vivekananda and NonHindu Traditions
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Taylor & Francis North Korean Graphic Novels
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Taylor & Francis The Sogo Shosha
Book SynopsisThe sogo shosha, Japan's general trading companies, are regarded as a key element in the country's rapid economic growth after World War II and its great success in international trade. In Japanese fiscal year 1975, the ten largest sogo shosha had total sales of $155 billion, accounting for 56 percent of Japan's exports and imports, 18 percent of domestic wholesale trade, and 31 percent of GNP. On the international level, the transactions of these companies in the same year were 5 percent of world export trade. This bookâthe first comprehensive, English-language work on the sogo shoshaâsystematically describes and analyzes the basic characteristics, business methods, sales and profit trends, strategies, national roles, global reach, strengths and weaknesses, and future prospects of these global trading conglomerates. In examining both the national and the global facets of the sogo shosha, the author presents the economic and social origins of the ten larg
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Columbia University Press Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang
Book SynopsisDespite a decade of rapid economic development, China’s western borderlands have experienced a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, this volume creates an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as they have unfolded—the most extensive chronicle of events to date.Trade ReviewEthnic unrest in Tibet and among the Uyghurs in Xinjiang is very much in the news and is a subject of great academic and public interest. It is hard to research because the Chinese government limits access to these areas. Nonetheless, these resourceful and courageous scholars have managed to access these regions, find out what is troubling the ethnic minority residents there, and assess how deep the trouble is. -- Andrew J. Nathan, coauthor of China's Search for SecurityEthnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang is a terrific book. Ten experts take a balanced and clear-eyed view of the conditions and politics behind the recent wave of ethnic unrest in China. It should be required reading for those who would understand the interlocking causes of conflict, including decision makers in Beijing. -- June Teufel Dreyer, author of China's Political SystemThese studies of contemporary China's relations with the Tibetans and the Uyghurs offer insights on a wide variety of issues, including the Chinese state's policies toward Buddhism and Islam, the causes of conflicts between China and these so-called minority nationalities, the government's economic policies and the ensuing environmental effects, and the possible economic synergies between Chinese and Tibetan and Uyghur entrepreneurs. The authors differ in their opinions about the future, with some providing negative predictions while others are more optimistic, but each furnishes informed analyses. -- Morris Rossabi, author of The Mongols and The Mongols and Global HistoryThese essays provide detailed study of ethnopolitics in contemporary China based on solid fieldwork and scholarly analysis of regional peculiarities and standardizing policies. -- Tsering Shakya, coauthor of The Struggle for TibetHighly recommended. * Choice *A welcome contribution to the field and essential reading for specialists, policy makers, and graduate students interested in these important regions. * Journal of Asian Studies *An excellent resource: the contributions are consistently strong and empirically rich, and examine a wide range of complementary features of society across the two autonomous regions. * International Affairs *A short review cannot do justice to the subtlety of the arguments in this volume, which will be of interest to anyone seeking lucid, innovative explanations of politics, economy, and society in Xinjiang and Tibet. . . . This volume is a model for productive cross-regional scholarship and demonstrates the value of combining deep area knowledge with disciplinary rigor. * Pacific Affairs *A useful and timely contribution to our understanding of these complex and important regions. -- Michael Dillon * Ethnic and Racial Studies *This is an excellent and well researched book. -- Colin Mackerras, Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University Brisbane, Australia * Journal of Contemporary Asia *This well presented and important collection of chapters explores aspects of the recent and continuing disturbances in Tibet and Xinjiang based upon research undertaken by academics at various stages in their careers. * Asian Affairs *The body of research produced is undoubtedly of a very high standard, and makes a valuable contribution to the study of the ongoing conflicts in Xinjiang and Tibet. * Asian Review of Books *An important and highly useful book. * BizIndia *A much-needed contribution to the canon of literature on interethnic relations in China. * A much-needed contribution to the canon of literature on interethnic relations in China. *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding the Current Wave of Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang, by Ben Hillman1. Unrest in Tibet and the Limits of Regional Autonomy, by Ben Hillman2. Propaganda in the Public Square: Communicating State Directives on Religion and Ethnicity to Uyghurs and Tibetans in Western China, by Antonio Terrone3. Discussing Rights and Human Rights in Tibet, by Françoise Robin4. The Chinese Education System as a Source of Conflict in Tibetan Areas, by Clémence Henry5. Lucrative Chaos: Interethnic Conflict as a Function of the Economic "Normalization" of Southern Xinjiang, by Thomas Cliff6. Environmental Issues and Conflict in Tibet, by Yonten Nyima and Emily T. Yeh7. Fringe Existence: Uyghur Entrepreneurs and Ethnic Relations in Urban Xinjiang, by Tyler Harlan8. Prosperity, Identity, Intra-Tibetan Violence, and Harmony in Southeast Tibet: The Case of Gyalthang, by Eric Mortensen9. Interethnic Conflict in the PRC: Xinjiang and Tibet as Exceptions?, by James LeiboldContributorsIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd China and the New International Order
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University of California Press To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth
Book SynopsisThis text offers a complete critical translation and commentary for Ge Hong's (283-343 ce) "Traditions of Divine Transcendents" which gathered together the narratives of those who strove to become transcendents - deathless beings with supernormal powers - in early medieval China.Trade Review"This book marks a new milestone in the study of Chinese religious history. Only a scholar as intelligent and dedicated as Campany would dare tackle and so eloquently translate one of the most important and difficult works of early Chinese religious history."-Paul Katz, author of Images of the Immortal: The Cult of Lu Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy; "A pathbreaking work of lasting significance to the field of Chinese religious history. The scholarship is solid and current, drawing upon the best research from America, Europe, China, and Japan. The translation is accurate, clear, and elegant, based upon an innovative analysis of surviving sources."-Terry Kleeman, author of Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom; "Campany's annotated translation of Ge Hong's (283-343) classic, the first in English, admirably captures the book's rich evocation of the religious culture of Southern China in the fourth century. Ge Hong here offers a series of case studies of what he regarded as the historical and exemplary evidence for the existence of immortals. This translation of Traditions of Divine Transcendents conveys a lively and multifaceted vision of the Taoist conception of physical immortality. The book's emphasis on practices related to the cult of the immortals and the hope for transcendence squarely places its subject in the religious life of traditional Chinese society."-Franciscus Verellen, co-editor of The Taoist Canon: A Historical GuideTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE: TRADITIONS OF DIVINE TRANSCENDENTS AND ITS CONTEXT Opening Ge Hong and the Writing of Traditions of Divine Transcendents The Nature of the Religion Reflected in Ge Hong's Works Text-Critical Matters PART TWO: A CRITICAL, ANNOTATED TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY Group A: Earliest-Attested Hagiographies Group A: Earliest-Attested Fragments Group B: Early-Attested Hagiographies Group B: Early-Attested Fragments Group C: Later-Attested Hagiographies PART THREE: TEXT-CRITICAL NOTES On the Source Tests and the Temporal Differentiation of Passages Group A: Sources of Earliest-Attested Hagiographies Group A: Sources of Earliest-Attested Fragments Group B: Sources of Early-Attested Hagiographies Group B: Sources of Early-Attested Fragments Group C: Sources of Later-Attested Hagiographies Items Attributed to Shenxian zhuan Excluded from This Translation Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Constitutional Democracy in India
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Taylor & Francis Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World
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University of Chicago Press Insurgent Communities
Book SynopsisSociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests. When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities, Sharon M. Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed. Quinsaat looks to Filipinos in the United States and the Netherlandsexamining their resistance against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, their mobilization for migrants' rights, and the construction of a collective memory of the Marcos regimeto argue that diasporas emerge through political activism. Social movements provide an essential space for addressing migrants' diverse experiences and relationships with their homeland and its history. A significant contribution to the interdisciplinary field of migration and social movements studies, Insurgent Communities illuminates how people develop collective identities in times of social upheaval.
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Taylor & Francis Colonialism Capitalism and Racism
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Edinburgh University Press The Canada Us Border
Book SynopsisExplores the Canada US border through a variety of theoretical, cultural and literary approaches
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Taylor & Francis Dalits
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive introduction to dalits in India (who comprise over one-sixth of the countryâs population) from the origins of caste system to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative action in the Indian Constitution, dalits are largely excluded from the mainstream except for a minuscule section. The book traceTable of Contents Preface. Introduction 1. The Caste Context 2. Anti-Caste Developments 3. Pre-Ambedkar Dalit Movements 4. Dalit Movement under Ambedkar 5. Post-Ambedkar Movements of Dalits 6. Religious Conversion as Emancipation 7. Politics as the Masterkey 8. Dalits under Neoliberalism 9. New Trends in dalit Movement Epilogue Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Perspectives on Public Systems
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the effectiveness of district administration from critical management perspective. Using classical organizational theory and leadership competency framework, the authors conducted a comparative study of two exemplary districts with distinctive traits in India â a rural district in the developed state of Maharashtra and an urban district from the underdeveloped state of Madhya Pradesh. The book delves into the dynamics of district administration by breaking down the processes further and mapping the role of the district magistrates on the UNDP competency framework. Given the changing scope and challenges of public service, this comparative analysis of the two districts would provide insights into district administration and would be of significant relevance to administrators and management professionals across the globe in assessing their effectiveness.The book provides an eclectic framework for public administration from an overall sustainability perTrade Review"I enjoyed the book, especially learning about these places in India and the near-heroic role of district collectors, and am pleased to recommend it." --Christopher L. Atkinson, University of West Florida, USA Table of ContentsChapter 1. District Administration in the Context of Public Management. Chapter 2. Different Perspectives of Public Administration and Management. Chapter 3. Case Study of an Urban District, Bhopal. Chapter 4. Case Study of a Rural District, Osmanabad. Chapter 5. Critical Analysis of District Case Studies. Chapter 6. Prospects of District Administration
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Cambridge University Press Science and Civilisation in China Volume 5 Chemistry and Chemical Technology Part 6 Military Technology Missiles and Sieges
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Cambridge University Press AfroCaribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation
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McGill-Queen's University Press An Irish History of Civilization Vol. 2
Book SynopsisThe grace of fiction combined with the power of historyTrade Review"Don Akenson has a lengthy track-record in new approaches to history. He has already written extensively and seminally on everything that is touched upon in this book, so he has the pedigree and the intellect to withstand the criticism which will invariably come. The approach is probably too quirky for the po-faced, but will thrill most readers. It is great fun, terrifically written and down to earth: scholarship and the Irish diaspora as you have never seen them before." Marianne Elliott The Irish Times "If James Joyce had studied the Talmud as assiduously as the Odyssey and been as enamoured of Saint Paul and Saint Patrick as he was of Nora Barnacle, he might have produced as overwhelmingly mordant a work as An Irish History of Civilization - but only if he'd had Conor Cruise O'Brien and Roddy Doyle as re-write men. Don Akenson has one-upped Joyce and forged the consciousness of a race." T.F. Rigelhof, Contributing Reviewer, The Globe and Mail "Akenson's astonishing series of vignettes, mini-biographies and running jokes features Irish pirates, missionaries, colonial governors, slaves and slave owners... it mingles history and fiction, the horrifying and the hilarious... This is a very odd book, but a genuinely brilliant achievement." Stephen Howe, The Independent "Stand by to be ticker-taped by scholarship; by dazzle, wit, and amplitude of knowledge as rare as it's painless and provocative". Tom Adair, The Scotsman "There is a novel here. In fact, there are thousands... (an) inimitable bricolage of reflection, jokes and mordant ironies. It might not be every historian's cup of tea, but I relished every word." Roy Foster, The Scotsman "Historian Don Akenson's monumental work begins with Paul in 16 BC and ends with the Presidential Prayer Breakfast in Washington in 1970: Billy Graham and Richard Nixon. What's between requires four books in two volumes, divided into chapters on particular places and periods, themselves divided into numerous brief stories, each with its own point. Iconoclastic, original and eclectic, Akenson has produced a unique opus that is absorbing and entertaining, sometimes exhilarating and occasionally exhausting. The sheer vitality and mulitiplicity of these thousand and one stories produces a cumulative richness of imagery and narrative unmatched in much conventional fiction. It is an extraordinary feat of writing." Peter Hart The Globe & Mail "An Irish History of Civilization is a book like no other." Michael Enright, The Sunday Edition, CBC "While the breadth of An Irish History of Civilization is impressive, its depth is more so. Each portion deserves to be lingered over, savoured slowly, and allowed to reveal itself before fully moving on to the next." Robert J. Wiersema Quill & Quire "The stories are so absorbing that it was dangerous to begin reading the book late at night. The next thing I knew, it was close to morning and I began to develop what is known as Akenson-lag. I suspect that many other readers will have a similar experience. " David Wilson, author of Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle and professor of Celtic studies, St Michael's College, University of Toronto "Deliciously fresh and imaginative and a truly wondrous accomplishment from a unique and profound mind that is too lively and too quick to be bound by the limits of history or fiction." Peter Ward, professor of history, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsBook three Half the globe's our home God's Lethal Spur. Famine 1845-1852; An Old World Becoming New? Ireland 1852-1900; Not Far, But Not Home. England 1845-1900: Nearly Normal. Australia 1845-1900; Earnest Accommodation. New Zealand and Outer Polynesia 1845-1900; Mourn The Wild Colonial Boys? 1845-1900; Land of the Terminally Victorian. Upper Canada 1845-1900; The Advent of the Belated Irish. The USA 1845-1898 Book four America's century The Road Home. Ireland 1900-1923; Ever Farther. Australasia and Polynesia 1900-1969; Still the Cavaliers Ride 1900-1969; The Lord Has Mersey, and Lots More. England 1900-1969; So Far, So Fast, So So Far. Ireland 1922-1969; The Creation of the American Century 1898-1969 Recessional; Postlude
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Goose Lane Editions The Legacy of Tiananmen Square
Book SynopsisWith the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow. Instead, China has adopted its own version, with a market-driven economy where actions that might call into question the decisions of the governing party are strictly forbidden. In this fascinating account, Cormier chronicles numerous failed attempts to bring democracy to China in the last century, starting with a handful of brave souls who tried to move China towards a constitutional monarchy at the turn of the century and peaking with the student uprising of 1989. Using historical research (including surprising transcripts from Party meetings) and candid interviews with many of the dissidents -- some now living in exile, others under house arrest in China -- Cormier tells the very human story of real people struggling for human rights and freedoms. The Legacy of Tiananmen Square was originally published in French as Les héritiers de Tiananmen. This updated edition was translated by Jonathan Kaplansky.
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Liberty Fund Inc Present Age
Book SynopsisThe Present Age challenges readers to re-examine the role of the United States in the world since World War I. Nisbet criticises Americans for isolationism at home, discusses the gutting of educational standards, the decay of education, the presence of government in all facets of life, the diminished connection to community, and the prominence of economic arrangements driving everyday life in America. This work is deeply indebted to the analyses of Tocqueville and Bryce regarding the threats that bureaucracy, centralisation, and creeping conformity pose to liberty and individual independence in the western world. The Present Age relates a tragedy -- the unprecedented militarisation of American life in the decades after 1914, as the result of the necessary resistance to National Socialist and Communist totalitarianism that fed into and reinforced the profound tendencies toward centralisation within modern society.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the declining status of cricket within contemporary British society after the high-water mark of England's Ashes victory in 2005. It considers the deep roots of the game within British national life as well as its ever-changing nature, and reflects upon the current significance and relevance of a sport that many still perceive as deeply traditional and conservative in outlook.Adopting a socio-political approach, the book offers new perspectives on both the contemporary realities of modern cricket and the social, cultural and political condition of modern Britain. Rather than focusing on personality and the detail of match history, the book looks at how the sport has coped with wider societal changes, such as those in Afro-Caribbean and South Asian communities, and how this has demanded adaptation by cricket's governing authorities. The book also considers the international context in which the game continues to develop and how the initiative with new foTrade Review"Ultimately this study, while being a forensic examination of the factors at work that define the various British communities’ relationship with cricket, is a labour of love. Holden wants to know “how [cricket] can capture the nation once more as the chief summer sport and not completely drop off the sporting radar during the winter months”. He believes it can be done through successful national men’s and women’s teams and “[by engaging] as widely as possible in projecting a sport that is accessible, open, safe and free of injustice and discrimination”. Like many lovers of this truly remarkable sport, I sincerely hope he’s right." - Daniel Norcross, cricket broadcasterTable of Contents1. Introduction and framework for discussion, 2. The depths of 1999 and the rehabilitation of cricket, 3. Impact of the 2005 Ashes victory, 4. Cricket and identity: some geographical reflections, 5. Cricket and the British Afro-Caribbean community: Losing the heritage, 6. Realizing the power of the South Asian community, 7. Twenty20: cricket’s 21st-century revolution, 8. Comparing the British cricketing experience, 9. The advance of women’s cricket, 10. Concluding remarks
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