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This interdisciplinary volume is a new introduction to area studies in the framework of whole-world thinking. Emerging in the United States after World War II, area studies have proven indispensable to American integration in the world. They serve two main purposes: to equip future experts with rich cultural-historical and political-economic...

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Area Studies in the Global Age is a fruitful read and should find its way onto the reading lists of incoming graduate students, as well as, scholars and policy makers.

* Region *

Area Studies in the Global Age offers a lucid account of the multiple and overlapping challenges currently facing the production of global knowledge as it has been known in the US academy.

* Slavic and East European Journal *

This is an interesting collection, a useful call for increased attention to area studies and a text on how area studies can be done in a way that avoids disciplinary extremism.

* Journal of Contemporary Asia *

Area Studies in the Global Age

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/02/2016
      ISBN13: 9780875807270, 978-0875807270
      ISBN10: 0875807275

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This interdisciplinary volume is a new introduction to area studies in the framework of whole-world thinking. Emerging in the United States after World War II, area studies have proven indispensable to American integration in the world. They serve two main purposes: to equip future experts with rich cultural-historical and political-economic...

      Trade Review

      Area Studies in the Global Age is a fruitful read and should find its way onto the reading lists of incoming graduate students, as well as, scholars and policy makers.

      * Region *

      Area Studies in the Global Age offers a lucid account of the multiple and overlapping challenges currently facing the production of global knowledge as it has been known in the US academy.

      * Slavic and East European Journal *

      This is an interesting collection, a useful call for increased attention to area studies and a text on how area studies can be done in a way that avoids disciplinary extremism.

      * Journal of Contemporary Asia *

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