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  • Communism in an Enchanted World

    Chinese Folk Religion under Mao Zedong

    by S. A. Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
    Drawing together decades of research, Steve Smith explores the survival and adaptation of folk beliefs in Mao's China in the face of seismic social change and growing political repression. Bringing an oftenneglected aspect of modern Chinese history to the fore, he shows how folk religion maintained a vital presence in everyday life. In myriad ways, through Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Supernatural Politics

    Mao Zedong and the Drive to Eliminate Religion in China, 1949–79

    by S. A. Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
    In this landmark contribution to the study of modern China, Steve Smith examines the paradox of 'supernatural politics'. He shows that we cannot understand the meaning of the Communist revolution to the Han Chinese without exploring their belief in gods, ghosts and ancestors. China was a religious society when the Communist Party took power in 1949, and it sought to erode the influence of the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Russia in Revolution

    An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

    by S. A. Smith ...
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Historian S. A. Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Russian Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by S. A. Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Like Cattle and Horses

    Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927

    by S. A. Smith, Andrew Gordon, Alexander Keyssar, Daniel James ...
    Series series Comparative and International Working-Class History
    In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was crushed by Chiang Kai-shek, Smith uses a host of documents—journalistic accounts of strikes, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • That's Ship Life!

    by S. A. Smith ...
    Amy, a lonely thirty-something year old, decides that enough is enough. Sick and tired of being on her own, with no money, no friends and more importantly no love life, she reflects back on her years spent at sea. Taking drastic action, she decides to return to the lifestyle that she had loved and missed so much. After two years away, going back to work on the cruise ships would be the answer to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Revolution and the People in Russia and China

    A Comparative History

    by S. A. Smith ...
    Series series The Wiles Lectures
    A unique comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Steve Smith examines the changing social identities of peasants who settled in St Petersburg from the 1880s to 1917 and in Shanghai from the 1900s to the 1940s. Russia and China, though very different societies, were both dynastic empires with backward agrarian economies that suddenly experienced the impact of ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Maoism at the Grassroots

    Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism

    by Jacob Eyferth, Wang Haiguang, Kuisong Yang, Daniel Leese, Sha Qingqing, Sigrid Schmalzer, Michael Schoenhals, Vivienne Shue, Cao Shuji, Steve (S.A.) Smith, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zhe Wu ...
    The Maoist state’s dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together scholars from China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, this volume ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Maoism at the Grassroots

    Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism

    by Jacob Eyferth, Wang Haiguang, Kuisong Yang, Daniel Leese, Sha Qingqing, Sigrid Schmalzer, Michael Schoenhals, Vivienne Shue, Cao Shuji, Steve (S.A.) Smith, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zhe Wu ...
    The Maoist state’s dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together scholars from China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, this volume ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism

    Edited by S. A. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The thirty-five essays in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    The Nimble Company

    by Dr. David Gruder, Mark S A Smith ...
    Narrated by Dr. David Gruder, Mark S A Smith ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 34 min

    Amid perpetual upheavals and accelerating world changes, we transition from the Experience Economy where buyers choose memorable outcomes to the Transformational Economy where buyers choose meaningful, authentic, and socially responsible outcomes.Because your customers want to become a better version of themselves, your company must become a better version of itself.This book’s premise: the future ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Nimble C-Suite

    by Dr. David Gruder, Mark S A Smith ...
    Narrated by Dr. David Gruder, Mark S A Smith ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 13 min

    Amid perpetual upheavals and accelerating world changes, we transition from the Experience Economy where buyers chose memorable outcomes to the Transformational Economy where buyers choose meaningful, authentic, and socially responsible outcomes.Because your customers want to become a better version of themselves, your company must become a better version of itself.This book’s premise: the future ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus