Regional / International studies Books

Cet ouvrage analyse dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire comment se manifestent les pratiques et les conceptions de la frontière dans les mondes ibériques et ibéro-américains. Quelles en sont les spécificités et les évolutions au cours des siècles ?...

Par les disciplines convoquées (archéologie, littérature, histoire, philosophie, anthropologie...) et sa perspective diachronique, cet ouvrage pose un regard original sur les espaces méditerranéens et en offre une vision transhistorique. Le dialogue...

Told with clarity, humour and insight, From the Frying Pan into the Fire lets us look into the turbulent history of Zimbabwe through the eyes of a native Zimbabwean educator. Born in a rural village in 1965, in what was then Rhodesia, young Judith grew...

For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency...

This book, by one of the most experienced authorities on the subject, presents a deep analysis of the very difficult current situation in Afghanistan. Covering a wide range of important subjects including state-building, democracy, war, the rule of law,...

The term 'circulatory transnational migration' best describes the unconventional migratory route of many contemporary Chinese migrants - that is an unfinished set of circulatory movements that these migrants engage in between the homeland and various...

Over the course of the nineteenth century, most of the Theravada world of Southeast Asia came under the colonial domination of European powers. While this has long been seen as a central event in the development of modern forms of Theravada Buddhism,...

Space is dynamic, political and a cause of conflict. It bears the weight of human dreams and fears. Conflict is caused not only by spatial exclusivism but also by an inclusivism that seeks harmony through subordinating the particularity of the Other to...

The foreign policy of a colonial country is very different from that of a sovereign country. Two features of the foreign policy of colonial India were: one, that it was framed in the interest of Britain; and two, that till the very end, the British...

Based on in-depth ethnographic work, this book presents a study of Filipinas trafficked to South Korea, focusing on women who entered South Korea as migrant entertainers and subsequently became deployed in exploitative work environments around US...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

For the first time, a historian and seasoned mariner looks beyond the specific circumstances of individual shipwrecks in an effort to reach a clearer understanding of the economic, political, and psychological factors that have influenced the 25,000...

Although Henry Ford gloried in the limelight of highly publicized achievement, he privately admitted, "I don't do so much, I just go around lighting fires under other people."Henry's Lieutenants features biographies of thirty-five...

In 1976, Wayne State University Press published The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry, an anthology that offered a sampling of the best poetry written by Michigan writers. A second Third Coast anthology was published in 1988 with many new poets...

Bridging the River of Hatred portrays the career of George Clifton Edwards, Jr., Detroit's visionary police commissioner whose efforts to bring racial equality, minority recruiting, and community policing to Detroit's police department in the...

Ojibwa Narratives presents a fresh view of an early period of Ojibwa thought and ways of life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the south shore of Lake Superior. This fascinating collection of fifty-two narratives features, for the first time, the...

This volume contains several case studies to explain the causes and consequences of Asian contagion's spread within or among countries, such as, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, China, India, Philippines, and Vietnam.

This book explores transitional role of the state in Taiwan's economic development and focuses on impact of trade with mainland China. It provides an analysis of Taiwan's political and economic development in the 1990s, and is helpful for students of...

This book focuses on the intersection of Islamic and Indian Ocean histories, illustrating relationships among ideology, culture, and economics. It explores the story of maritime Asians, particularly Muslims, within the historical framework of land-based...

We all ?know? that Marco Polo went to China, served Ghengis Khan for many years, and returned to Italy with the recipes for pasta and ice cream. But Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at the British Library, argues that Marco Polo not only...

This book presents the realities of China's political economy, from China's size and population to industrial reform, labor and unemployment, consumerism, trade, state finances and banking, balance of payments, government institution reform, U.S.-Chinese...

A major force in East Asias remarkable economic growth and industrial transformation, foreign direct investment has been growing at 1415 percent annually in Southeast Asia and China over the last decade. This timely volume examines the impact of...

"In this new edition of his widely acclaimed study, William Duiker has revised and updated his analysis of the Communist movement in Vietnam from its formation in 1930 to the dilemmas facing its leader"

""I have read Arthur Herman's Introduction to Hinduism with considerableinterest and pleasure. It is bold and innovative, clearly written, well organized,and quite provocative."-Eliot DeutschUniversity of Ha wail at Manoa"

In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Dr. Milani offers new insights into the causes and profound consequences of Iran's Islamic Revolution. Drawing on dozens of personal interviews with the officials of the Islamic Republic and on recently...

A Political Economy of the Middle East is the most comprehensive analysis of developments in the political economy of the region over the past several decades, examining the interaction of economic development processes, state systems and policies, and...

In The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War award-winning journalist Mark Huband argues that foreign involvement in Africa - whether by colonialists, financial donors, armies, political reformers, or Cold War protagonists - has been the...

Alternate Civilities is an anthropologist's answer to the argument that China's cultural tradition renders it incapable of achieving an open political system. It compares China with the vibrant democracy that has developed over the last decade in Taiwan.

The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has been extending small loans to poor borrowers (primarily women) to promote self-employment and income generation since 1976. The apparent success of the Grameen Bank (that is, recruitment of clients, investment of loans,...

While the consequences of low social order are well understood, the consequences of high social order are not. Yet perhaps nowhere in the world is social order so well developed as in Japan, which is highly organized, economically successful, and enjoys...

This book assesses the Islamic Republic's potential for revolution through a comparative analysis of the present with 1979 pre-Revolutionary Iran. It identifies two "ideal-typical" forms of revolutionary change—the regime collapses on its own or...

This book is an account of the life and times of Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin al-Zarb, the most prominent nineteenth-century Iranian merchant and Iran's first major entrepreneur. It is an interesting work illuminating Iran's path to modernity, economic and...

This book shows that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process will be expedited by increased economic liberalization. It examines the forces that have shaped the Israeli economy and society in the past 100 years, since the onset of Zionist settlement in...

This abridgement of the unique journal of Francis Hall, America's leading business pioneer in nineteenth-century Japan, offers a remarkable view of the period leading to the Meiji Restoration. An upstate New York book dealer, Hall went to Japan in 1859...

The most comprehensive treatment to date of the unique intellectual, political, and military role of an ethnic and religious minoritythe Armeniansin the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911), the bases of that participation, the causes of...

Since China entered the post-Mao "Reform Era" in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Chinese economy has taken off as few economies ever have. Labor migration, rural enterprises, rising production, and globalization have all combined to end the isolation...

In August 1945, the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What is hardly known is that 4,000 Nisei (Japanese Americans), the sons and daughters of Japanese immigrants who had been sent back to Japan to be educated before World War II...

The fascinating biography of George Antonius (1891-1942), a leading Arab nationalist and Palestinian patriot whose ideas on nation, nationalism, and moral democracy resonate for contemporary seekers of the path to peace in the Middle East.

Soldiers in a Storm: The Armed Forces in South Africa's Democratic Transition is a study of the role of the military in the creation and development of South Africa's new post-apartheid system. Philip Frankel asserts that the armed forces played a far...

Lu Ning, former assistant to a vice-foreign minister of China, draws on archival materials, interviews, and personal experiences, to provide unique insights into the formal and informal structures, processes, mechanisms, and dynamics of--and key players...

The Guerilla Dynasty describes the evolution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) state, presenting an accessible and up-to-date account of North Korea's political, economic and foreign policy since its foundation, with particular emphasis...

This book examines the role of Islam and the Islamic movements in the post-independence Maghrib—Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. It focuses on these movements as forces of politically relevant change in modern Muslim societies by analyzing their...

"In A Nation in Waiting, Adam Schwarz spans a wide variety of issues of concern in today's Indonesia, providing a detailed view of one of the world's most populous, yet least-understood, nations. He ch"

This book provides an extremely important new perspective on the Japanese Constitution, challenging the easy assumption that it is simply an American invention imposed on a helpless Japan. It encourages the readers to take more seriously the large body...

As a rising regional power in the critical borderland between Europe and Asia, Turkey has been more challenged than its neighbors by the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the break-up of Yugoslavia. A secular Muslim nation with a history of...

Examining the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and South-East Asians, this volume does so, not in terms of formal models and faceless abstractions, but in the light of the institutions through which local people give...

This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms. It is designed to examine the actual viability of the World Bank's structural adjustment strategies for Africa, all of which were designed to encourage export-led growth.

When China opened its doors to the West in the late 1970s, Western businesses jumped at the chance to sell their products to the most populous nation in the world. Boardrooms everywhere buzzed with excitement?a Coke for every citizen, a television for...