Regional / International studies Books
OUP India Structure and Transformation Theory and Society
Book SynopsisThis title attempts to look at some of the key theoretical and empirical debates in the fields of urbanization, industrialization and stratification in India. It engages with the problems of typologies - tribal, peasant and industrial - in order to understand the problem of modernity and tradition in India.
£21.14
Oxford University Press Inc Pilgrimage Landscape and Identity Reconstucting
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity provides a welcome international perspective on pilgrimage in Norway, one of the few monographs on this topic published in English. Grau's circumambulation, combined with attention to international geopolitical and social issues, is commendable in its perspective on economic and ecological factors, as well as for including the voices of minorities in the discussions about the developments of pilgrimage networks. * Hannah Kristine Lunde, Folklore *In this impeccably researched and engagingly-written book, Marion Grau introduces readers to a Norwegian 'pilgrimage network' and its ritualizations of text, landscape, practices, and narratives. Grau brings an ecumenical perspective and a cross-disciplinary approach to bear on this rich study of reconstructed medieval pilgrimages, both at their inceptions and today as they continue to play a formative role in personal, national, and religious identity. Grau is an academic, pilgrim, and guide as she maps these paths for the reader in this important contribution to the ever-growing field of pilgrimage studies. * Kathryn R. Barush, Associate Professor and Thomas E. Bertelsen Jr. Chair of Art History and Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley / Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University *There has been a remarkable revival of pilgrimage shrines and routes in post-Reformation countries across Northern Europe. Marion Grau has made an impressive contribution to the growing, inter-disciplinary study of this revival. She guides us gently along the routes to the St. Olav shrine in Trondheim and sets this particular example within the wider context of a changing nation. * John Eade, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Roehampton, London *Interweaving 'circumambulatory field work,' theological reflection, and historical analysis, Grau has produced a richly textured tapestry of various narratives and vividly present landscapes and bodies. This is an impressive exploration of important issues concerning migration, nationalism, sacred and secular rituals, and climate change within the context of a Norwegian pilgrimage. * Sarah M. Pike, author of For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism *It is indeed a fine and novel study of pilgrimage in Norway, with interesting nuances and rich source materials. The book is written in an engaging language free of theological jargon, and it is both thought-provoking and interesting. It's well worth the read. * Peder AnkerGallatin, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Reconstructing Sacred Geographies: Narrating Routes and Landscapes Chapter 2 Vikings, Saints and Pilgrimage Chapter 3 Mapping The Pilgrimage Network Chapter 4 Encountering Pilgrims Chapter 5 Ocean Pilgrimage and Ocean Plastics: Coastal Activism and the Reopening of the Marine Pilgrim Route Chapter 6 Cathedral and Town: Movable Feasts and Adaptable Spaces Chapter 7 Reconstructing Rituls: Pilgrimage and Sainthood in Contemporary Norway Epilogue Works Cited Notes
£53.20
OUP India Blooming in the Ruins
Book SynopsisWhen we think of philosophy that can guide us in our everyday lives, we are more likely to think of Ancient Greece or Rome than we are 20th-century Mexico. But Mexican philosophy, which came into focus in the last century, following the Mexican Revolution, is a rich and wide-ranging tradition with much to offer readers today. Emerging in defiance of the Western philosophy bound up with colonial power--first brought to Mexico with the Augustinians in the 16th century, and, like so much else, imposed on Mexicans for centuries after that--it boasts a range of powerful ideas and advice for modern-day life. A tradition deeply tied to Mexico''s history of colonization, revolution, resistance, and persistence through hardship, this philosophy has much to teach us.Mexican philosophers had to grapple with questions particular to Mexico that have implications that anyone can and should learn from. Given the way we all must contend with life''s unexpected twists and turns, how can we preserve a sense of ourselves, and a coherent way of thinking about the world? If history is really a sequence of accidents, each affecting the next, how can we think about what we should be doing in our lives? How can we understand who we are, if we are the product of such accidents of history? How can we deal with emotions that conflict with one another? How can we keep our spirits up when we feel like we are always on our way to a far-off goal? Mexican philosophy offers a specific, historically- and culturally-rooted way to think about these universal questions. We can appreciate the way its ideas followed from the accidents of history that created modern-day Mexico, while also appreciating that they are as universally profound as those passed down in the Western tradition. Mexican philosophy also offers an array of fascinating concepts and directives, from recommending cultivating a rival as a source of motivation to teaching how to deal with trouble-makers and reminding us to respect other people on their own terms. Mexican philosophy is a varied, dynamic, and deeply modern resource for meaningful, distinctive wisdom to guide us through our lives. Incorporating stories from his family''s and his ancestors'' Mexican and Mexican-American experiences, Carlos Alberto Sánchez provides an intriguing guide for readers of all backgrounds, including those who will be learning about philosophy (or Mexico) for the first time.
£14.99
Oxford University Press African Development Report 2005 Public Sector Management in Africa
Book SynopsisThe African Development Report 2005 is the seventeenth annual survey of economic and social progress in Africa. The Report provides comprehensive analysis of the state of the African economy, examining development policy issues affecting the economic prospects of the continent.The African Development Bank Group is a regional multilateral development finance institution the members of which are all of the 53 countries in Africa and 25 countries from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America. The purpose of the Bank is to further the economic development and social progress of African countries individually and collectively. To this end, the Bank promotes the investment of public and private capital for development, primarily by providing loans and grants for projects and programs that contribute to poverty reduction and broad-based sustainable development in Africa.The non-concessional operations of the Bank are financed from its ordinary capital resources. In addition, the
£18.55
Oxford University Press Islam and the Blackamerican Looking Toward the Third Resurrection
Book SynopsisSherman Jackson offers a trenchant examination of the career of Islam among the blacks of America. Jackson notes that no one has offered a convincing explanation of why Islam spread among Blackamericans (a coinage he explains and defends) but not among white Americans or Hispanics. The assumption has been that there is an African connection. In fact, Jackson shows, none of the distinctive features of African Islam appear in the proto-Islamic, black nationalist movements of the early 20th century. Instead, he argues, Islam owes its momentum to the distinctively American phenomenon of Black Religion, a God-centered holy protest against anti-black racism.Islam in Black America begins as part of a communal search for tools with which to combat racism and redefine American blackness. The 1965 repeal of the National Origins Quota System led to a massive influx of foreign Muslims, who soon greatly outnumbered the blacks whom they found here practicing an indigenous form of Islam. Immigrant Muslims would come to exercise a virtual monopoly over the definition of a properly constituted Islamic life in America. For these Muslims, the nemesis was not white supremacy, but the West. In their eyes, the West was not a racial, but a religious and civilizational threat. American blacks soon learned that opposition to the West and opposition to white supremacy were not synonymous. Indeed, says Jackson, one cannot be anti-Western without also being on some level anti-Blackamerican. Like the Black Christians of an earlier era struggling to find their voice in the context of Western Christianity, Black Muslims now began to strive to find their black, American voice in the context of the super-tradition of historical Islam. Jackson argues that Muslim tradition itself contains the resources to reconcile blackness, American-ness, and adherence to Islam. It is essential, he contends, to preserve within Islam the legitimate aspects of Black Religion, in order to avoid what Stephen Carter calls the domestication of religion, whereby religion is rendered incapable of resisting the state and the dominant culture. At the same time, Jackson says, it is essential for Blackamerican Muslims to reject an exclusive focus on the public square and the secular goal of subverting white supremacy (and Arab/immigrant supremacy) and to develop a tradition of personal piety and spirituality attuned to distinctive Blackamerican needs and idiosyncrasies.Trade ReviewDestined to become a fixture in any course dealing with Islam in America, Jackson's treatment of the subject offers many helpful insights while giving a voice to often-ignored Blackamerican Muslims. ...his work will contribute to the lively and growing debate over the place of Islam in America and the role of Blackamerican Muslims in the contemporary American religious scene. * The Virginia Quarterly Review *No one has ever analyzed the actual dynamics of Blackamerican Muslims with more acute insight, or more palpable good will, than Sherman Jackson. For both black and white Americans, Jackson sets forth a vision of Islam that is at once holistic and pragmatic: a source of inner strength, a builder of human character, and a bridge to salvation. This book is required reading for anyone who has ever pondered how the long span of Muslim history connects to the Blackamerican stake in an ongoing and enabling Islamic identity. * Bruce Lawrence, author of New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life *No author is better positioned than Sherman Jackson to write Islam and the Blackamerican. A prominent scholar of Islam and major Muslim leader, Jackson draws on his impeccable scholarship and experience, providing a perspective on the past and charting a future course for Blackamerican Muslims. * John L. Esposito, author of What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam *This seminal examination of Blackamerican Islam is an excellent theoretical seating for and analysis of various communities since the beginning of the twentieth century. What makes this text groundbreaking is that it stands the tradition of the only real religion among African Americans is Christianity on its head. For almost all of the 20th century, Black Christian scholars have claimed hegemony over what is said about religion in the black community without mentioning the influences of Islam or even its increasing adherence. Well, Sherman Jackson has forced a new conversation with a skilled and sophisticated investigation from the point of view of a Blackamerican Islamic scholar. Things will never be the same again in the scholarship around black religion. * Aminah Beverly McCloud, author of African American Islam *A must read for anyone interested in an important and challenging interpretation of Islam and African Americans. * James H. Cone, author of Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Islam and Black Religion ; 2. The Third Resurrection and the Ghost of Edward Wilmot Blyden ; 3. Black Orientalism ; 4. Between Blackamerica, Immigrant Islam, and the Dominant Culture ; 5. Blackamerican Islam Between Religion, Nationalism, and Spirituality ; Notes ; Index
£31.59
The University of Chicago Press Hurricane Lamp Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisBarbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait which was often depicted as an unsavoury form of transgression or cultural ambition.Trade Review"Robinson Crusoe told us that his head was always filled 'with rembling Thoughts.' That is how he got into such trouble, but it is also the way he survived. Rambling thoughts, as Benedict shows in this exuberant study, were at the center of English literary and cultural experience from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Transgressive, uncontrollable, hopelessly vulgar and at the same time exalted and ennobling, the passion of curiosity was the key that unlocked the sensibility of modernity in its great formative age." - Stephen Greenblatt, author of Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World "Benedict assembles her own gorgeous literary curiosity cabinet crammed with excerpts from novels, poems, journalism, travel narratives, trial transcripts and pornography.... The book is teeming with big questions and fine distinctions." - Ian Sansom, The Guardian "Pithy and wide-ranging.... This study provides a fresh new lens through which to reinvestigate the whole of early modern English literature." - Library Journal
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Awakening Spaces
Book SynopsisThis text chronicles the rise of popular music in the French Caribbean. Based on personal interviews and discussions of song texts, Berrian shows how these musicians express their feelings about current and past events, about themselves, their islands and the French.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Young White and Miserable Growing Up Female in
Book SynopsisThis study shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s first found momentum in the seemingly peaceable time of the 1950s. It explores white middle class America and argues that mixed messages given to girls during this decade lent fuel to the fire that would later become known as feminism.
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Reinventing Khomeini The Struggle for Reform in
Book SynopsisThis study offers an interpretation of the political battles that paved the way for reform in Iran. The author argues that the struggle for a more democratic Iran can be traced back to the revolution itself, and to the contradictory agendas of the revolution's founding father, Ayatollah Khomeini.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Hustling Is Not Stealing Stories Of An African
Book SynopsisIn the 1970s John Chernoff recorded the story of Hawa, a 16 year old West African girl working as an ashawo, or bar girl. Through Hawa, the reader gains an inside view of life in modern West Africa, for those without money, education or experience.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Black Visions
Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of the complex relationship of black political thought to black political identity and behaviour. The book identifies which political ideologies are supported by blacks, then traces their historical roots and examines their effects on black public opinion.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Yayas Story The Quest for WellBeing in the World
Book SynopsisOffers a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. Combining memoir, ethnography, and philosophy through a series of interconnected narratives, this title tells a story of remarkable friendship and the quest for well-being.Trade Review"Yaya's Story is not only highly original, it is emotionally engaging and profound. Stoller reveals the tensions between the yearning for meaningful relationships in Niger and the clinical care afforded by New York City. In so doing he demonstrates just how complex is the creation of well-being in the modern world. This is a truly remarkable book by a most gifted storyteller." (A. David Napier, author of Making Things Better)"
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press The Vote Bush Gore and the Supreme Court
Book SynopsisThe Supreme Court's actions during the 2000 American presidential election seem sensible, legally legitimate and pragmatically defensible to some and an egregious abuse of power to others. This book offers a guide to the ultimate consequences and significance of the Supreme Court's decision.
£21.85
University of Chicago Press Opening Up Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform
Book SynopsisMore and more men and women in China are having sex before marriage, creating a new youth sex culture based on romance, leisure and free choice. Farrer explores this change by tracing the basic elements in talk about sex and sexuality in Shanghai.Trade Review"Opening Up conveys a panoramic, vivid, and fully convincing picture of the changing scene in China with remarkable assurance. James Farrer draws on extensive research and interviews with Chinese youth, revealing a rich and deep mastery of his subject. This is an extraordinary new book." - Ann Swidler, author of Talk of Love; "I can think of few books that offer such a layered appreciation for the textures of everyday life in urban China. Written in a hip and contemporary style, Opening Up is a pleasure to read." - Michael Dutton, author of Streetlife China
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Opening Up
Book SynopsisMore and more men and women in China are having sex before marriage, creating a new youth sex culture based on romance, leisure and free choice. Farrer explores this change by tracing the basic elements in talk about sex and sexuality in Shanghai.Trade Review"Opening Up conveys a panoramic, vivid, and fully convincing picture of the changing scene in China with remarkable assurance. James Farrer draws on extensive research and interviews with Chinese youth, revealing a rich and deep mastery of his subject. This is an extraordinary new book." - Ann Swidler, author of Talk of Love; "I can think of few books that offer such a layered appreciation for the textures of everyday life in urban China. Written in a hip and contemporary style, Opening Up is a pleasure to read." - Michael Dutton, author of Streetlife China
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Divided in Unity
Book SynopsisWhen the Berlin wall fell and the reunification of Germany began, Willy Brandt predicted that 'what belongs together will now grow together.'This study of Berlin's police force in the aftermath of reunification shows that forty years of separation left the nation with deep rifts.Trade Review"A curious puzzle lies at the heart of Glaeser's skillful ethnography.... The dominant reason given for unifying Germany was a shared nationality. Yet as Glaeser convincingly illustrates, the process of unification has foundered on the very shoals of cultural difference.... This book is fascinating, theoretically rich, and empirically rewarding." - Martha Lampland, American Journal of Sociology
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Routes of Remembrance
Book SynopsisWhy do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? This book tackles this question by analyzing the slave trade's absence from public versions of coastal Ghanaian family and community histories, its troubled presentation in the country's classrooms and nationalist narratives, and its elaboration by the transnational tourism industry.Trade Review"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this fascinating book. Indeed, it is rare to find such a sensitive account of how people deal with painful memories of the past and the complex social forces that dictate the shape and form that those memories of the past take." - Jennifer Cole, author of Forget Colonialism?"
£22.80
University of Chicago Press Harlemworld Doing Race and Class in Contemporary
Book SynopsisMany experts believe that black America consists of two geographically distinct populations: a neglected underclass living in urban poverty, and a middle class of graduates and professionals. Through fieldwork and interviews with denizens of Harlem, this book aims to explode these presumption.
£34.87
The University of Chicago Press Harlemworld Doing Race and Class in Contemporary
Book SynopsisHarlem is one of the most famous neighbourhoods in the world - a historic symbol of both black cultural acheivements and of the rigid boundaries separating rich from poor. This work illustrates how Harlem is far more culturally diverse than its cariacature suggests.
£22.80
University of Chicago Press Restless Nation
Book SynopsisIn this work, the author discovers that the American character is full of paradoxes. He states that this elusive national character can be found in Americans' faith in moving. He portrays this character through the lives of America's famous and not-so-famous nomads, and facts and statistics.Trade Review"Jasper's thesis... is strong and tantalizing. He does not restrict himself to a single discipline or line of argument, but dazzles readers with a stunning combination of literary critique, cultural analysis and economic estimation." - Publishers Weekly "Jasper travels across the American psyche to explore our unique infatuation with movement and personal reinvention.... To the author, this undergirds the cult of individualism as well as conservative, antigovernment politics in America.... The fluidity contributes to the dynamism of U.S. society but ensures a weak sense of community.... Restless Nation is an engaging essay on why we move so much." - Library Journal
£31.81
The University of Chicago Press Restless Nation
Book SynopsisIn "Restless nation" James M. Jasper isolates a narrative that lies very close to the core of the American character. From colonial times to the present day, Americans have always had a deep-rooted belief in the 'fresh-start' philosophy, explored in this work.Trade Review"Jasper's thesis... is strong and tantalizing. He does not restrict himself to a single discipline or line of argument, but dazzles readers with a stunning combination of literary critique, cultural analysis and economic estimation." - Publishers Weekly "Jasper travels across the American psyche to explore our unique infatuation with movement and personal reinvention.... To the author, this undergirds the cult of individualism as well as conservative, antigovernment politics in America.... The fluidity contributes to the dynamism of U.S. society but ensures a weak sense of community.... Restless Nation is an engaging essay on why we move so much." - Library Journal
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press God and Government in the Ghetto
Book SynopsisAs government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This title demonstrates that this alliance serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership in black civil society.Trade Review"This exceptional book will be crucial for those of us who study black politics. In this era of strange alliances between the Republican right and black Christian fundamentalists, research that illuminates how the formerly contentious and confrontational black church has adapted to certain political realities has cutting-edge relevancy." - Andrea Y. Simpson, University of Richmond"
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press God and Government in the Ghetto The Politics of
Book SynopsisAs government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This title demonstrates that this alliance serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership in black civil society.Trade Review"This exceptional book will be crucial for those of us who study black politics. In this era of strange alliances between the Republican right and black Christian fundamentalists, research that illuminates how the formerly contentious and confrontational black church has adapted to certain political realities has cutting-edge relevancy." - Andrea Y. Simpson, University of Richmond"
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Lying up a Nation Race and Black Music
Book SynopsisLying up a nation traces the evolution of black music from the time of slavery to the modern era, showing how its history has always been dependent on the interplay of races.
£89.30
The University of Chicago Press Kinshasa in Transition Womens Education
Book SynopsisKinshasa is now the second largest urban area in sub-Saharan Africa, with a population around five million. The authors trace the impact on women's lives of social, economic and demographic changes that have resulted from the rapid expansion of the city.
£57.79
The University of Chicago Press Infamous Desire
Book SynopsisWhat did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? This work provides a comprehensive analysis of how males, and specifically homosexual males, were represented in ares under both Spanish and Portugese control.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Infamous Desire
Book SynopsisWhat did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? This work provides a comprehensive analysis of how males, and specifically homosexual males, were represented in ares under both Spanish and Portugese control.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press All the Rage The Story of Gay Visibility in
Book SynopsisFrom the public outing of Ellen DeGeneres to the murder of Matthew Shepard, gay lives and images have moved onto the centre stage of American public life. Combining personal stories with analysis, this book argues that we live in a time where gays are seen, but not necessarily heard.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Kupilikula Governance and the Invisible Realm in
Book SynopsisArgues that, where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed.Trade Review"Kupilikula is one of the finest examinations of contemporary sorcery that I have read. The writing is clear and unencumbered. The ethnography is rich and nuanced. By the end of the book, the reader has a significantly more profound comprehension of the thorny thicket of contemporary African politics. This is a major contribution to African studies, political anthropology, and the anthropology of religion." - Paul Stoller, West Chester University and Temple University"
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Kiss of the Yogini
Book SynopsisReconstructs the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period. This book contains translations from over a dozen Tantras. It is useful for those seeking to understand Tantra and the crucial role it has played in South Asian history, society, culture, and religion.Trade Review"Kiss of the Yogini is one of the few good, interesting books about Tantra, a passionately argued work that transforms scholarly understanding of its subject.... By reconstructing the medieval South Asian Kaula and Tantric traditions that involved sexual practices, David White hopes to restore the dignity and autonomy of the people who invented them and continue to practise them. This monumental scholarly work does precisely that." - Wendy Doniger, Times Literary Supplement"
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press An Amorous History of the Silver Screen Shanghai
Book SynopsisIllustrates the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change. This book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature. It looks at the cultural history of Chinese through the lens of this seminal moment in Shanghai cinema.Trade Review"An Amorous History of the Silver Screen will be an instant classic. This lively yet rigorous work of original scholarship reconfigures the field of Chinese silent cinema. It constitutes an exciting new work at the cutting edge of the emergent transnational field of Chinese cinema studies." - Chris Berry, editor of Chinese Films in Focus"
£94.00
The University of Chicago Press An Amorous History of the Silver Screen Shanghai
Book SynopsisIllustrates the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change. This book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature. It looks at the cultural history of Chinese through the lens of this seminal moment in Shanghai cinema.Trade Review"An Amorous History of the Silver Screen will be an instant classic. This lively yet rigorous work of original scholarship reconfigures the field of Chinese silent cinema. It constitutes an exciting new work at the cutting edge of the emergent transnational field of Chinese cinema studies." - Chris Berry, editor of Chinese Films in Focus"
£38.00
John Wiley & Sons Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis
Book SynopsisSince 1991, Canada has provided Ukraine with ongoing political and economic assistance. Never was this policy pursued with more urgency than in 2014, when Russian aggression prompted the Canadian government to elevate its support for Ukraine to a foreign policy priority. Although the move is often described as a radical departure, Bohdan Kordan and Mitchell Dowie contend that it was consistent with Canada''s security interests and political and historical identity. In this calculation the worldview of Prime Minister Stephen Harper also figured prominently. Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis offers a timely explanation of the dynamic interaction between key factors - at the international, national, and individual levels - that shaped the Canadian government''s response and imbued it with an unusual degree of urgency. Explaining the nature of the crisis and why it elicited such a forceful reaction from the Harper government, Kordan and Dowie assert that Canada''s decision to side openly witTrade Review"Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis manages, in one slim volume, to provide a helpful overview and in-depth analysis of the conflict and Canada's reaction, to discuss the factors determining such a response, and to make a contribution to a 'neorealist' theory of international relations." Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria and author of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know
£102.52
John Wiley & Sons Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis
Book SynopsisSince 1991, Canada has provided Ukraine with ongoing political and economic assistance. Never was this policy pursued with more urgency than in 2014, when Russian aggression prompted the Canadian government to elevate its support for Ukraine to a foreign policy priority. Although the move is often described as a radical departure, Bohdan Kordan and Mitchell Dowie contend that it was consistent with Canada''s security interests and political and historical identity. In this calculation the worldview of Prime Minister Stephen Harper also figured prominently. Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis offers a timely explanation of the dynamic interaction between key factors - at the international, national, and individual levels - that shaped the Canadian government''s response and imbued it with an unusual degree of urgency. Explaining the nature of the crisis and why it elicited such a forceful reaction from the Harper government, Kordan and Dowie assert that Canada''s decision to side openly witTrade Review"Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis manages, in one slim volume, to provide a helpful overview and in-depth analysis of the conflict and Canada's reaction, to discuss the factors determining such a response, and to make a contribution to a 'neorealist' theory of international relations." Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria and author of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know
£31.28
McGill-Queen's University Press Rethinking Decentralization Mapping the Meaning
Book SynopsisForty per cent of the world’s population lives in federal countries, each facing their own crises and successes. Rethinking Decentralization explores what makes a successful federal government by centering the unique role of public attitude in maintaining the fragile institutions of federalism.Trade Review“Rethinking Decentralization breaks new theoretical ground in its multidimensional understanding of subsidiarity. Showcasing his deep knowledge on the peculiarities of eight different countries, Jacob Deem elegantly weaves his findings into case-specific narratives. There is no other book on this subject with the same conceptual, theoretical, historical, and empirical breadth.” Sean Mueller, University of Lausanne and author of Theorising Decentralisation: Comparative Evidence from Subnational Switzerland
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Rethinking Decentralization Mapping the Meaning
Book SynopsisForty per cent of the world’s population lives in federal countries, each facing their own crises and successes. Rethinking Decentralization explores what makes a successful federal government by centering the unique role of public attitude in maintaining the fragile institutions of federalism.Trade Review“Rethinking Decentralization breaks new theoretical ground in its multidimensional understanding of subsidiarity. Showcasing his deep knowledge on the peculiarities of eight different countries, Jacob Deem elegantly weaves his findings into case-specific narratives. There is no other book on this subject with the same conceptual, theoretical, historical, and empirical breadth.” Sean Mueller, University of Lausanne and author of Theorising Decentralisation: Comparative Evidence from Subnational Switzerland
£27.90
Columbia University Press An AllConsuming Century
Book SynopsisAn All-Consuming Century is a rich history of how market goods came to dominate American life over the hundred years between 1900 and 2000 and why for the first time in history there are no practical limits to consumerism.Trade ReviewThe best survey yet written of the history of modern American consumer society... Avoiding the extremes of celebration and condemnation that too often pass for analysis, Cross's searching book is imbued with a generous concern for the revival of an active, democratic and participatory public sphere. -- Lawrence B. Glickman The Nation Cross shows how 'private, widespread and ephemeral commodity culture'has altered daily life, 'especially how people relate to nature and to one another.'The author of fine historical studies of various aspects of consumer culture, Cross is particularly well placed to undertake such a daunting task. Journal of American History By telling the story of how consumerism trumped social forces from Prohibition to the Simplicity movement, Cross brilliantly re-evaluates the bonds of family and community sold off to pay for the stuff with which we now populate our lives. San Francisco Chronicle It takes a historian to provide an appreciation of how far Americans have wandered from the days when consumerism was slightly suspect, and Gary Cross is superbly up to the task. -- Alan Wolfe The New Republic Cross has done prodigious work on the era that redefined the pursuit of happiness as the unbounded desire for goods. Building on an impressive range of scholarship, he lays out the sinews of a dazzling 100 years of American productivity chock full of the economic equivalents of flying rugs and magic lamps. -- Tom Engelhardt Los Angeles Times Book Review [An] absorbing cultural history of how Americans' personal and public identities have evolved in relationship with consumer goods. Publishers Weekly This readable modern history is enlivened. The Economist Thought-provoking... Cross has offered a perceptive view of how American identities have evolved and are perceived in relation to a thriving consumer culture. -- Margaret Walsh, University of Nottingham History The great merit of this book is that it characterizes consumerism as a social and political force. Unlike many critics who simply reduce consumerism to the individual pursuit of material comfort, Cross casts it as a compelling ideology that concretely expresses the major ideals that have guided the last century: liberty and democracy. -- Norman Wirzba Christian ReflectionTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Irony of a Century 2. Setting the Course, 1900--1930 3. Promises of More, 1930--1960 4. Coping with Abundance 5. A New Consumerism, 1960--1980 6. Markets Triumphant, 1980--2000 7. An Ambiguous Legacy Index
£23.80
Columbia University Press State Interests and Public Spheres The
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship among identity, interests, and foreign policy, employing contemporary Jordan to explore the changing dynamics of the Arab regional system. This book emphasizes the print media as a barometer of public opinion - one that affects the decision-making of political leaders.Trade Review"The depth of research for this book is simply superb, and the text of the empirical chapters demonstrates this while still flowing smoothly and cogently...For the empirical detail alone, this book should be required reading for all students of Jordanian politics." -- Middle East Journal "Table of Contents1. State Interests and Public Spheres 2. The Public Sphere Structure of International Politics 3. Who Says Jordan Is Palestine? 4. Jordan Is Jordan: Jordanian Debates over Jordanian-Palestinian Relations 5. Jordan in the Gulf Crisis: The Construction of Public Opinion 6. The Jordanian-Israeli Peace Process: Publicity, Interests, and Bargaining 7. New Jordan, New Middle East? 8. Abandoning Iraq? 9. Identity and the Politics of Public Spheres
£25.50
Columbia University Press Dispatches from the Ebony Tower Intellectuals
Book SynopsisWhat constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable -- one of the leading scholars of African American history -- gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk.Trade ReviewMarable has brought together incisive minds who display a willingness to be forhtright in their criticisms, yet who are clearly deeply invested in the future of African American Studies... An essential read for those committed to maintaining a black racial presence on campuses in the US as well as elsewhere. Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Black Studies and the Black Intellectual Tradition, by Manning Marable One: Theorizing the Black World: Race in the Postcolonial, Post-Civil Rights Era 1. Toward an Effective Antiracism, by Nikhil Pal Singh 2. The Political Moment in Jamaica: The Dimensions of the Hegemonic Dissolution, by Brian Meeks 3. Sandoms and Other Exotic Women: Prostitution and Race in the Caribbean, by Kamala Kempadoo 4. Race and Revolution in Cuba: African-American Perspectives, by Manning Marable 5. The Fire This Time: Harlem and Its Discontents at the Turn of the Century, by Johanna Fernandez 6. Crack Cocaine and Harlem's Health., by Beverly Xaviera Watkins and Mindy Thompson Fullilove Two: Mapping African-American Studies 7. African-American Studies and the "Warring Ideals": The Color Line Meets the Borderlands, by Johnnella E. Butler 8. The Future of Black Studies: Political Communities and the "Talented Tenth", by Joy James 9. Black Studies and the Question of Class, by Bill Fletcher Jr. 10. Black Studies: A Critical Reassessment, by Maulana Karenga 11. Black Studies Revisited, by Martin Kilson 12. Theorizing Black Studies: The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class, by James Jennings 13. A Debate on Activism in Black Studies, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. & Manning Marable Three: Afrocentrism and Its Critics 14. Afrocentrism, Race, and Reason., by Molefi Kete Asante 15. Afrocentrics, Afro-elitists, and Afro-eccentrics: The Polarization of Black Studies Since the Students Struggles of the Sixties, by Melba Joyce Boyd 16. Reclaiming Culture: The Dialectics of Identity, by Leith Mullings 17. Afrocentrism, Culture Nationalism, and the Problem with Essentialist Definitions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality, by Barbara Ransby 18. Afrocentricity and the American Dream, by Lee D. Baker 19. Multinational, Multicultural America Versus White Supremacy, by Amiri Baraka Four: Race And Ethnicity in American Life 20. The Problematic of Ethnic Studies, by Manning Marable 21. Prophetic Alternatives: A Conversation with Cornel West 22. Race in American Life: A Conversation with John Hope Franklin
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Columbia University Press Dispatches from the Ebony Tower
Book SynopsisWhat constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable -- one of the leading scholars of African American history -- gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk.Trade ReviewMarable has brought together incisive minds who display a willingness to be forhtright in their criticisms, yet who are clearly deeply invested in the future of African American Studies... An essential read for those committed to maintaining a black racial presence on campuses in the US as well as elsewhere. Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Black Studies and the Black Intellectual Tradition, by Manning Marable One: Theorizing the Black World: Race in the Postcolonial, Post-Civil Rights Era 1. Toward an Effective Antiracism, by Nikhil Pal Singh 2. The Political Moment in Jamaica: The Dimensions of the Hegemonic Dissolution, by Brian Meeks 3. Sandoms and Other Exotic Women: Prostitution and Race in the Caribbean, by Kamala Kempadoo 4. Race and Revolution in Cuba: African-American Perspectives, by Manning Marable 5. The Fire This Time: Harlem and Its Discontents at the Turn of the Century, by Johanna Fernandez 6. Crack Cocaine and Harlem's Health., by Beverly Xaviera Watkins and Mindy Thompson Fullilove Two: Mapping African-American Studies 7. African-American Studies and the "Warring Ideals": The Color Line Meets the Borderlands, by Johnnella E. Butler 8. The Future of Black Studies: Political Communities and the "Talented Tenth", by Joy James 9. Black Studies and the Question of Class, by Bill Fletcher Jr. 10. Black Studies: A Critical Reassessment, by Maulana Karenga 11. Black Studies Revisited, by Martin Kilson 12. Theorizing Black Studies: The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class, by James Jennings 13. A Debate on Activism in Black Studies, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. & Manning Marable Three: Afrocentrism and Its Critics 14. Afrocentrism, Race, and Reason., by Molefi Kete Asante 15. Afrocentrics, Afro-elitists, and Afro-eccentrics: The Polarization of Black Studies Since the Students Struggles of the Sixties, by Melba Joyce Boyd 16. Reclaiming Culture: The Dialectics of Identity, by Leith Mullings 17. Afrocentrism, Culture Nationalism, and the Problem with Essentialist Definitions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality, by Barbara Ransby 18. Afrocentricity and the American Dream, by Lee D. Baker 19. Multinational, Multicultural America Versus White Supremacy, by Amiri Baraka Four: Race And Ethnicity in American Life 20. The Problematic of Ethnic Studies, by Manning Marable 21. Prophetic Alternatives: A Conversation with Cornel West 22. Race in American Life: A Conversation with John Hope Franklin
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Columbia University Press The Starr Report Disrobed
Book SynopsisFedwa Malti-Douglas reveals how The Starr Report exposed the cultural tendencies, desires, and taboos of Americans while it disrobed the most powerful man in the world. Fraught with assumptions about gender and sexuality, the report reflects a strategy to use Clinton's "body natural" to undermine his "body politic."Trade ReviewWriting with wit, verve, and sharp perception, Fedwa Malti-Douglas provides fresh ways of understanding the Starr Report in relation to lasting issues of gender relations, narrative technique, and attitudes toward the body. Her deft cultural and textual analysis will give her readers lasting insight as well as immediate pleasure. -- Patricia Meyer Spacks, author of Advocacy in the Classroom I read The Starr Report with horrified fascination. With force and brio, the brilliant Fedwa Malti-Douglas tells us why. Stripped bare, the body of The Starr Report is very, disturbingly American. -- Catharine R. Stimpson, Director, MacArthur Fellows Program A masterful dissection of a politically and culturally crucial document. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note Introduction 1. The Mighty Morphin Report 2. Organization as Obsession 3. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: The Geographies of Lust 4. The Great Facilitator: Or, How to "Currie" Favor 5. Are We Having Fun Yet? 6. Fall Into the Gap: Or, The Starr Report Introduces Popeye to Bill Clinton 7. How Is a Sexual Encounter a Sexual Encounter? 8. "I Love the Narrative!" 9. My Body, My Gender 10. An American Postmodern Conclusion: The President's Two Bodies and the Politics of Masquerade Index
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Columbia University Press Sources of Japanese Tradition
Book SynopsisA sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from eighteenth century to post-World War II period. It presents writings from modern Japan's philosophers, religious figures, writers, and political leaders. It also offers introductory essays and commentary to assist in understanding documents' historical setting and significance.Trade ReviewGreatly expanded with the addition of many new sources, and the compilers did a wonderful job in organizing. -- Nam-Lin Hur Pacific Affairs Sources of Japanese Tradition will perform a useful function... and the volumes should find a place on library shelves wherever Japanese history is taught. -- Sandra Wilson Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Part IV The Tokugawa Peace 20. Ieyasu and the Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate, by Willem Boot Ieyasuis Revenge and Compassion 21. Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period, by Willem Boot Fujiwara Seika and the Rise of Neo-Confucianism Hayashi Razan The Later History of the Hayashi Family School The Way of Heaven 22. The Spread of Neo-Confucianism in Japan Yamazaki Ansai and Zhu Xi Studies, by Barry Steben The Mito School, by Barry Steben Kaibara Ekken: Human Nature and the Study of Nature, by Mary Evelyn Tucker The Oyomei (Wang Yangming) School in Japan, by Barry Steben Kumazawa Banzan: Confucian Practice in Seventeenth-Century Japan, by Ian James McMullen Nakae Tojuis Successors in the Oyomei School, by Barry Steben 23. The Evangelic Furnace: Japanis First Encounter with the West, by J. S. A. Elisonas European Documents A Christian Critique of Shinto Alexandro Valignanois Japanese Mission Policy A Jesuit Priestis Observations of Women Japanese Documents The Anti-Christian Edicts of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Fabian Fucan Pro and Contra A Buddhist Refutation of Christianity 24. Confucian Revisionists, by Wm. Theodore de Bary and John A. Tucker Fundamentalism and Revisionism in the Critique of Neo-Confucianism Yamaga Soko and the Civilizing of the Samurai, by John A. Tucker Ito Jinsaiis School of Ancient Meanings, by John A. Tucker Ogyu Sorai and the Return to the Classics Muro Kyusois Defense of Neo-Confucianism 25. Varieties of Neo-Confucian Education Principles of Education Yamazaki Ansai, by John A. Tucker Kaibara Ekken, by Mary Evelyn Tucker The Shizutani School, by Mary Evelyn Tucker The Merchant Academy of Kaitokudo, by Tetsuo Najita Lecture on the Early Chapters of the Analects and Mencius Items of Understanding, 1727 Items of Understanding, 1758 Ogyu Soraiis Approach to Learning, by Richard Minear Hirose Tansois School System, by Marleen Kassel 26. Popular Instruction Ishida Baiganis Learning of the Mind and the Way of the Merchant, by Janine Sawada The House Codes of Tokugawa Merchant Families The Testament of Shimai Soshitsu The Code of the Okaya House Ihara Saikaku Mitsui Takafusa Muro Kyuso Hosoi Heishu How to Behave at Temple Schools 27. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics III, by Donald Keene Chikamatsu Monzaemon 28. Haiku and the Democracy of Poetry as a Popular Art, by Donald Keene Matsuo Basho Issa 29. "Dutch Learning," by Grant Goodman Engelbert Kaempfer Sugita Genpaku Otsuki Gentaku Shiba Kokan 30. Eighteenth-Century Rationalism Arai Hakuseki's Confucian Perspective on Government and Society, by Kate Nakai The Function of Rites The Evolution of Japanese History Hakuseki's View of Christianity and the West Hakuseki's Approach to Fiscal Policy and Trade Tominaga Nakamotois Historical Relativism Ando Shoeki's Ecological Community Miura Baien's Search for a New Logic, by Rosemary Mercer "The Origin of Price" Baien's System of "Logic" Space and Time Heaven-and-Earth Is the Teacher Jori and Science Kaiho Seiryo and the Laws of Economics 31. The Way of the Warrior II The Debate over the Ako Vendetta, by John A. Tucker and Barry Steben Okado Denpachiro Religious Nuances of the Ako Case, by John A. Tucker and Barry Steben Hayashi Razan Hayashi Hoko Muro Kyuso Ogyu Sorai Sato Naokata Asami Keisai Dazai Shundai Goi Ranshu Fukuzawa Yukichi The Ako Vendetta Dramatized, by Donald Keene Hagakure and the Way of the Samurai, by Barry Steben 32. The National Learning Schools, by Peter Nosco Kada no Azumamaro Kamo no Mabuchi Motoori Norinaga Love and Poetry Good and Evil in The Tale of Genji Hirata Atsutane Okuni Takamasa 33. Buddhism in the Tokugawa Period Suzuki Shosan, by Royall Tyler Takuan Soho, by William Bodiford Bankei Hakuin Ekaku Jiun Sonja Paul Watt 34. Orthodoxy, Protest, and Local Reform The Prohibition of Heterodox Studies The Kansei Edict The Justification for the Kansei Edict The Later Wang Yangming (Oyomei) School, by Barry Steben Sato Issai Oshio Heihachiro Agrarian Reform and Cooperative Planning Ninomiya Sontoku 35. Forerunners of the Restoration Rai Sanyo and Yamagata Daini: Loyalism Rai Sanyo's Unofficial History, by Barry Steben Yamagata Daini's New Thesis, by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Honda Toshiaki: Ambitions for Japan Sato Nobuhiro: Totalitarian Nationalism 36. The Debate over Seclusion and Restoration The Later Mito School The Opening of Japan from Within Sakuma Shozan: Eastern Ethics and Western Science Yokoi Shonan: Opening the Country for the Common Good Yoshida Shoin: Death-Defying Heroism Fukuzawa Yukichi: Pioneer of Westernization Reform Proposals of Sakamoto Ryoma, Saigo Takamori, and Okubo Toshimichi Sakamoto Ryoma: Eight-Point Proposal Letter from Saigo Takamori and Okubo Toshimichi on the Imperial Restoration Part V Japan, Asia, and the West 37. The Meiji Restoration, by Fred G. Notehelfer The Abolition of Feudalism and the Centralization of the Meiji State The Leaders and Their Vision The Iwakura Mission Consequences of the Iwakura Mission: Saigo and Okubo on Korea The Meiji Emperor 38. Civilization and Enlightenment, by Albert Craig Fukuzawa Yukichi Enlightenment Thinkers of the Meirokusha: On Marriage Mori Arinori Kato Hiroyuki Fukuzawa Yukichi Sakatani Shiroshi Tsuda Mamichi Nakamura Masanao: China Should Not Be Despised 39. Popular Rights and Constitutionalism, by James Huffman Debating a National Assembly, 1873-1875 Itagaki Taisuke Nakamura Masanao Representative Assemblies and National Progress, February 1879 Defining the Constitutional State, 1876-1883 Ito Hirobumi Okuma Shigenobu Chiba Takasaburo Nakae Chomin The Emergence of Political Parties Itagaki Taisuke Fukuchi Gen'ichiro Okuma Shigenobu Ozaki Yukio Bestowing the Constitution on the People, 1884-1889 Controlling the Freedom and People's Rights Movement The Meiji Constitution 40. Education in Meiji Japan, by Richard Rubinger Views in the Early Meiji Period Iwakura Tomomi and Aristocratic Education Kido Takayoshi and Ito Hirobumi on Universal Education Fukuzawa Yukichi and Education The First Meiji School System The Confucian Critique Motoda Eifu and Emperor-Centered Education Tani Tateki's Critique of the West Nakamura Masanao's Synthesis of East and West Mori Arinori and the Later Meiji School System Inoue Kowashi and Patriotic Training The Imperial Rescript on Education Teachers and Reform from Below State Control over Textbooks The Education of Women in the Meiji Period 41. Nationalism and Pan-Asianism State Shinto, by Helen Hardacre The Idea of Shinto as a National Teaching The Divinity of the Emperor The Patriotic Meaning of Shrines State Shinto in the Colonies of Imperial Japan Tokutomi Soho: A Japanese Nationalistis View of the West and Asia, by Fred G. Notehelfer Supporting the Imperial State and Military Expansion Okakura Kakuzo: Aesthetic Pan-Asianism, by Aida Yuan Wong Yanagi Muneyoshi and the Kwanghwa Gate in Seoul, Korea 42. The High Tide of Prewar Liberalism, by Arthur E. Tiedemann Democracy at Home Minobe Tatsukichi: The Legal Foundation for Liberal Government Yoshino Sakuzo: Democracy as minpon shugi Kawai Eijiro: A Rebuke to the Military Ishibashi Tanzan: A Liberal Business Journalist Kiyosawa Kiyoshi: Why Liberalism? Ienaga Saburo: The Formation of a Liberal Peaceful Cooperation Abroad Shidehara Kijuro: Conciliatory Diplomacy Yamamuro Sobun: Call for a Peaceful Japan 43. Socialism and the Left, by Andrew Barshay The Early Socialist Movement Anarchism Kotoku Shusui Kagawa Toyohiko Socialism and the Left Osugi Sakae Kaneko Fumiko Marxism The Debate About Japanese Capitalism Kawakami Hajime Yamada Moritaro Uno Kozo Marxist Cultural Criticism Tosaka Jun Nakano Shigeharu The Tenko Phenomenon 44. The Rise of Revolutionary Nationalism, by Marius Jansen Japan and Asia Agitation by Assassination The Plight of the Countryside Kita Ikki and the Reform Wing of Ultranationalism The Conservative Reaffirmation Watsuji Tetsuro 45. Empire and War, by Peter Duus The Impact of World War I: A Conflict Between Defenders and Opponents of the Status Quo A Plan to Occupy Manchuria The Economic Need for Expansion Hashimoto Kingoro Konoe Fumimaro National Mobilization Army Ministry Konoe Fumimaro The Imperial Rule Assistance Association Spiritual Mobilization Economic Mobilization The Greater East Asia War The Decision for War with the United States The War's Goals The Greater East Asia Conference Defeat Part VI. Postwar Japan 46. The Occupation Years, 1945-1952, by Marlene Mayo Initial Official Policies, American and Japanese A New Basic Document: The 1947 Constitution Introducing a New Civil Code The New Educational System Labor Unions Rural Land Reform Economic Stabilization and Reconstruction Reconstructing Japan as a Nation of Peace and Culture Morito Tatsuo Yokota Kisaburo Regaining Sovereignty in a Bipolar World Some Japanese Views of the War Kurihara Sadako Oe Kenzaburo Tanaka Kotaro 47. Democracy and High Growth, by Andrew Gordon The Movement Against the Separate Treaty and the U.S.- Japan Military Alliance The Government's View of the Economy in 1956: "The 'postwar' is over" The Transformation of the Postwar Monarchy Two Views of the Security Treaty Crisis of 1960 Maruyama Masao Yoshimoto Takaaki The Consumer Revolution in Postwar Japan, 1960 The Economic Planning Agency's New Long-Range Economic Plan of Japan, 1961-1970 Environmental Activism in Postwar Japan: Minamata Disease Bulldozing the Archipelago: The Politics of Economic Growth The Philosophy of Japanese Labor Management in the High-Growth Era The Japanese Middle Class at the End of the Twentieth Century Part VII. Aspects of the Modern Experience 48. The New Religions, by Helen Hardacre Kurozumikyo Tenrikyo Omoto Deguchi Nao Deguchi Onisaburo Reiyukai kyodan Soka gakkai Makiguchi Tsunesaburo Toda Josei Ikeda Daisaku 49. Japan and the World in Cultural Debate Uchimura Kanzo Natsume Soseki Nishida Kitaro Endo Shusaku Mishima Yukio Oe Kenzaburo 50. Gender Politics and Feminism, by Brett de Bary Gender and Modernization Magazines for Women's Education Women and Labor Hiratsuka Raicho and the Bluestocking Society Postwar Japanese Feminism Aoki Yayoi and Ecofeminism Matsui Yayori and Asian Migrant Women in Japan Ueno Chizuko and the Cultural Context of Japanese Feminism Saito Chiyo and Japanese Feminism 51. Thinking with the Past: History Writing in Modern Japan, by Carol Gluck New Histories in Meiji Japan Taguchi Ukichi Shigeno Yasutsugu Kume Kunitake Marxist History Writing Writing About the Meiji Restoration Tokutomi Soho Noro Eitaro Nakamura Masanori Banno Junji Bito Masahide Shiba Ryotaro A High-School History Textbook Alternative Histories Ifa Fuyu Yanagita Kunio Takamure Itsue Maruyama Masao Irokawa Daikichi Yasumaru Yoshio The Asia-Pacific War in History and Memory Maruyama Masao Ienaga Saburo Oe Kenzaburo Fujiwara Akira Kobayashi Yoshinori Ishizaka Kei Twentieth-Century Design Stamps Rethinking the Nation Amino Yoshihiko Kano Masanao Arano Yasunori and Colleague
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Columbia University Press The Politics of AntiWesternism in Asia
Book SynopsisChallenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and Offers a perspective on how religious tradition and the experience of European colonialism interacted with Muslim and non-Muslim discontent with globalization, the international order, and modernization.Trade ReviewThis volume is a rich intellectual history revealing the fascinating ways in which Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism were intertwined. -- Matthew Connelly, associate professor of history, Columbia University Cemil Aydin has written a fascinating book of exceptional scholarly quality. It explores elegantly, with impressive learning, the responses of Japanese and Ottoman civilizations to the West in the period 1880 to 1945. This study in the history of ideas is surprisingly relevant to such current concerns as 'the clash of civilizations' and 'the future of world order.' -- Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, emeritus, and emeritus professor of politics and international affairs, Princeton University Cemil Aydin presents a profound analysis of anti-Westernism that transcends simplistic polemics about 'why they hate us' and offers a significant contribution to understanding intercultural relations in the modern era. Combining expertise in Middle Eastern and Asian studies, Aydin joins a clear global perspective with an in-depth historical study. The result is a comprehensive understanding of one of the major themes of modern global affairs. -- John Voll, professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University [Aydin] has a sure grasp of what is fundamental and what is merely of the moment. -- Lucian W. Pye Foreign Affairs Required reading for anyone researching the history of anti-Western ideology in Asia. -- Sven Saaler Pacific Affairs The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia should become required reading. H-Diplo Aydin's book offers a thorough and nuanced portrayal of Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic thought. -- Michael Facius H-Soz-u-Kult ...an impressive work. -- Michael Farquhar Journal of Global History Aydin convincingly demonstrates that the evolution of anti-Westernisms cannot be divorced from non-Western intellectual and political engagement with concepts, ideals and values originating in Western modernity. Journal of Ottoman StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction2. The Universal West: Europe Beyond Its Christian and White Race Identity (1840–1882) 3. The Two Faces of the West: Imperialism Versus Enlightenment (1882–1905) 4. The Global Moment of the Russo-Japanese War: The Awakening of the East/Equality with the West (1905–1912)5. The Impact of WWI on Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asianist Visions of World Order 6. The Triumph of Nationalism? The Ebbing of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Visions of World Order During the 1920s 7. The Revival of a Pan-Asianist Vision of World Order in Japan (1931–1945) 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Politics of AntiWesternism in Asia
Book SynopsisCemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a reaction to the liberal democratic values of the West. He compares Ottoman Pan-Islamic and Japanese Pan-Asian visions of world order from the middle of the nineteenth century through World War II, focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals.Trade ReviewThis volume is a rich intellectual history revealing the fascinating ways in which Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism were intertwined. -- Matthew Connelly, associate professor of history, Columbia UniversityCemil Aydin has written a fascinating book of exceptional scholarly quality. It explores elegantly, with impressive learning, the responses of Japanese and Ottoman civilizations to the West in the period 1880 to 1945. This study in the history of ideas is surprisingly relevant to such current concerns as 'the clash of civilizations' and 'the future of world order.' -- Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, emeritus, and emeritus professor of politics and international affairs, Princeton UniversityCemil Aydin presents a profound analysis of anti-Westernism that transcends simplistic polemics about 'why they hate us' and offers a significant contribution to understanding intercultural relations in the modern era. Combining expertise in Middle Eastern and Asian studies, Aydin joins a clear global perspective with an in-depth historical study. The result is a comprehensive understanding of one of the major themes of modern global affairs. -- John Voll, professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown UniversityAydin . . . identifies both deep currents in Asian intellectual history and popular views of power and politics. He has a sure grasp of what is fundamental and what is merely of the moment. -- Lucian W. Pye * Foreign Affairs *Required reading for anyone researching the history of anti-Western ideology in Asia. -- Sven Saaler * Pacific Affairs *[A]n impressive work. -- Michael Farquhar * Journal of Global History *An extremely well-researched book, bursting with arguments and insights . . . [that] will be a boon for scholars who are interested in East-West relations. * Ethics & International Affairs *The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia should become required reading. * H-Diplo *Aydin's book offers a thorough and nuanced portrayal of Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic thought. -- Michael Facius * H-Soz-u-Kult *Aydin convincingly demonstrates that the evolution of anti-Westernisms cannot be divorced from non-Western intellectual and political engagement with concepts, ideals and values originating in Western modernity. * Journal of Ottoman Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction2. The Universal West: Europe Beyond Its Christian and White Race Identity (1840–1882) 3. The Two Faces of the West: Imperialism Versus Enlightenment (1882–1905) 4. The Global Moment of the Russo-Japanese War: The Awakening of the East/Equality with the West (1905–1912)5. The Impact of WWI on Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asianist Visions of World Order 6. The Triumph of Nationalism? The Ebbing of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Visions of World Order During the 1920s 7. The Revival of a Pan-Asianist Vision of World Order in Japan (1931–1945) 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Sources of Japanese Tradition Abridged
Book SynopsisA collection of English-language readings on Japan. Containing materials on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion, this text features an introduction to Japanese civilization. It also covers the Tokugawa period to 1868 and addresses the spread of neo-Confucianism and Buddhism and the encounters of Japan and the West.Table of ContentsPreface Explanatory Note Chronology Contributors Part IV. The Tokugawa Peace 20. Ieyasu and the Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate, by Willem Boot 21. Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period, by Willem Boot 22. The Spread of Neo-Confucianism in Japan 23. The Evangelic Furnace: Japan's First Encounter with the West, by J. S. A. Elisonas 24. Confucian Revisionists, by Wm. Theodore de Bary and John A. Tucker 25. Varieties of Neo-Confucian Education 26. Popular Instruction 27. "Dutch Learning," by Grant Goodman 28. Eighteenth-Century Rationalism 29. The Way of the Warrior II 30. The National Learning Schools, by Peter Nosco 31. Buddhism in the Tokugawa Period 32. Orthodoxy, Protest, and Local Reform 33. Forerunners of the Restoration 34. The Debate over Seclusion and Restoration Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Grassroots Fascism
Book SynopsisOffers rare insights into popular experiences from the war’s troubled beginnings through Japan’s disastrous defeat in 1945 and the new beginning it heraldedTrade ReviewGrassroots Fascism reveals, through the careful culling, instructive reading, and lucid contextualizing of an array of documents, a broad range of Japanese voices speaking of their experiences in wartime. It is a necessary book for understanding how life was lived and felt and articulated during these difficult years. -- Alan Tansman, University of California, Berkeley The translation of Yoshiaki Yoshimi's unprecedented Grassroots Fascism makes available his compelling narrative of popular participation in the actuality of Japanese fascism before and during the Pacific War. Although this classic work concentrates on how ordinary people were enlisted into Japan's fascist project, it also shows in rich detail the role they were willing to play as agents at the level of everyday life. Yoshimi's book joins a post-Cold War historiographical tradition that once more recognizes the necessity to take fascism seriously as a global conjunctural event. -- Harry Harootunian, Columbia University These searing and honest accounts drawn from the diaries and memoirs of ordinary Japanese soldiers and civilians make abundantly clear the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army. They also reveal the suffering, the blind devotion, the gradually emerging seeds of doubt, and finally both the catharsis and the disillusionment that came with the collapse of the empire. Ethan Mark's excellent historiographic introduction places Yoshimi's work in the context of postwar Japan's long process of coming to terms with its imperialist past. A crucial contribution to our understanding of modern Japan. -- Jordan Sand, Georgetown University Yoshimi skillfully shows how people, who were initially opposed to the military government's policies, ultimately became fervent collaborators with the fascists and committed atrocities in various parts of the Asia Pacific during World War II. Yoshimi also challenges the difficult question of why the Japanese failed to develop a strong sense of war responsibility for victims of the Asian war despite their dire experiences. A valuable volume for comprehending why Japan as a nation is still unable to resolve the problem of war responsibility. -- Toshi Yuki Tanaka, author of Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II Ethan Mark's elegant translation... is sure to add a crucial level of complexity to the global scholarly discourse on the nature of Japan's war, and indeed on the social mechanics of war in general... Insightful, eminently readable. H-Net Japan This is an important work that anyone with an interest in historical disputes in East Asia should read. -- Lanxin Xiang Survival [Grassroots Fascism] offers a comprehensive narrative of the situation from the beginning of the war in Asia to the early days following surrender to the Allied forces. -- Eric Brittingham The Japan Times Drawing from an impressive array of primary sources... the book provides one of the richest articulations of the voices, beliefs, and attitudes developed by million of Japanese as they moved from their villages to the expanding boundaries of the wartime empire. Japanese Studies Ethan Mark deserves praise for translating this seminal work and for supplying a valuable introductory essay setting it in the broader context of Japanese scholarship. Asian Affairs This chronicle of wartime mentalities from the bottom up is essential reading for anyone interested in fascism conceptually and the Asia-Pacific Theater of World War II. It testifies to Yoshimi's unflinching scholarship and his ongoing quest to promote serious debate about Japan's wartime past. -- Eri Hotta World War II This book will enliven our classrooms and enrich historiographical discourses on war, empire, and fascism both within and beyond Japanese history Pacific Historical ReviewTable of ContentsTranslator's Introduction: The People in the War 1. From Democracy to Fascism 2. Grassroots Fascism 3. The Asian War 4. Democracy from the Battlefield Postscript Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Palestinians in Syria
Book SynopsisConducting interviews with first-, second-, and third-generation members of Syria's Palestinian community, Anaheed Al-Hardan follows the evolution of the Nakba—the central signifier of the Palestinian refugee past and present—in Arab intellectual discourses, Syria's Palestinian politics, and the community's memorialization.Trade ReviewPalestinians in Syria is an original exploration of the evolution of memories of the traumatic events of the Nakba which affected the entire Arab population of Palestine in 1948. It skillfully traces how understanding of the valence and meaning of these events has changed over time. This book also constitutes the first major study of the Palestinian community in Syria, and it takes on added importance in light of the violent displacement of most of this community during the bitter fighting in and around Yarmouk camp near Damascus. -- Rashid Khalidi, author of Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness This extremely important and timely book provides a vivid portrait of the Palestinian refugee community in Syria-a community now dispersed by the war in that country. In its detailed analysis of Palestinian memories and histories of the devastating events of 1948, this study succeeds in demonstrating how the socially and economically integrated Palestinians in Syria were somehow different from other Palestinian refugees in the region. Although this book is about the Catastrophe of 1948, it is also about the Palestinian catastrophe in Syria today. -- Dawn Chatty, author of Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East What drives Palestinians in Syria is not the events of the Nakba but rather Nakba memories transferred through three generations, from those who experienced it up to the young of today. Anaheed Al-Hardan places her own identity as a third-generation refugee at the center of her thinking about uprooting and of her interactions with participants in her study, and she reflects critically on how this affected her research. She also carried out her research in a Palestinian exile region hardly touched by other researchers and has managed to incorporate effects of the ongoing civil war that has re-displaced thousands of Palestinian refugees in a new uprooting. -- Rosemary Sayigh, author of Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries An important and timely addition to the growing body of Nakba scholarship. Middle East Eye Provides a fascinating insight into a community now almost completely obliterated. Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online Especially in view of the impossibility of doing comparable research today, this book will be a valuable reference for years to come. -- Sally Bland The Jordan Times Palestinians in Syria is a well-researched, timely contribution to scholarship on refugees,memory, and the nakba. International Journal of Middle East Studies Palestinians in Syria is a must-read for scholars of Middle Eastern and Palestine Studies and an essential contribution to these fields for several reasons. Firstly, it is groundbreaking by its very nature as this is the first comprehensive academic monograph dedicated to the Palestinian community in Syria. Journal of Holy Land and Palestine StudiesTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration and Names Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Catastrophe of 1948, the Catastrophes of Today 1. The Nakba in Arab Thought 2. The Palestinian Refugee Community in Syria 3. The Right of Return Movement and Memories for the Return 4. Narrating Palestine, Transmitting Its Loss 5. The Guardians' Communities and Memories of Catastrophes 6. Second- and Third-Generation Postmemories of Palestine and Narratives on Nakba Memory Conclusion: The Catastrophes of Today, the Catastrophe of 1948 Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press In Search of the Lost Orient
Book SynopsisIn this book-length interview, Olivier Roy, a leading expert on political Islam, tells the story of how his many adventures and discoveries have shaped his understanding of the Islamic world. In Search of the Lost Orient is both a significant intellectual autobiography and a compelling travelogue.Trade ReviewOlivier Roy is one of the most important analysts of political Islam working today, arguably the single most insightful voice in a vast field. In Search of the Lost Orient provides a complete intellectual life story and argues that empirical research and a focus on concrete social practices must be the basis by which Islam and its intersection with politics must be understood. An engagingly written, impressive book that provides a rare and unique view of political Islam and one of its major thinkers. -- Benjamin Brower, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsForeword, by Olivier Mongin and Jean-Louis SchlegelPart I. Preamble1. Hitchhiking from Paris to Kabul: A Look Back at a DeparturePart II. From Louis-le-Grand to Dreux Via Afghanistan2. Louis-le-Grand, the May 1968 Revolution, and Learning Persian3. Louis-le-Grand, Normale sup’, and the Crisis of the Humanities4. Oriental Scents: From Yemen to China5. Return to the Fold6. Postcards and American Pool7. Professor at Dreux: Leftist, Away from Paris, and Happy8. Out of SchoolPart III. The Afghan Decade9. Once Again, and for Real, Afghanistan10. On Foot, on Horseback, and Wearing a Burka in Wartime Afghanistan11. Blue Helmets and Russian Bombs12. The Failure of Political Islam13. War Experience: Prisoners and Bandits14. Jihad15. The Afghan CircusPart IV. The Central Asia Decade16. A Soviet Invitation to Central Asia17. A Diplomatic Passport18. The Expert and the Politician19. Marriage: The Orient Lost and FoundPart V. Cultures and the Universally Human: Toward Holy Ignorance20. The Crisis of Cultures and the Universal21. What Was Good About Orientalism22. Against the Secularists’ Essentialism23. The Decade 2000–2010: Where Were You on September 11, 2001?Part VI. The Importance of a Religious Genealogy24. Portrait of a Young Protestant in the 1950s and ’60s25. Can One Think One’s Own Life?Epilogue: A Story to End All StoriesNotes
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