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  • The Making of a Chinese City

    History and Historiography in Harbin

    by Soren Clausen, Stig Thogersen ...
    The history of Harbin, ruled by the Russians, by an international coalition of allied powers, by Chinese warlords, by the Soviet Union and finally by the Chinese Communists - all in the course of 100 years - is presented here as an example of Chinese local-history writing. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Organizing Rural China — Rural China Organizing

    by Unn Målfrid H. Rolandsen, Christian Göbel, Ma Hua, Xu Yong, Liu Yiqiang, Mikkel Bunkenborg, Marina Svensson, Pang Cuiming, Yang Minghong, Jørgen Delman, Vivienne Shue, Jonathan Unger, Mette Halskov Hansen ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world’s largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signaled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization, marketization and increased geographical mobility started tearing apart the economic and social ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Worrying

    A Literary and Cultural History

    by Professor Francis O'Gorman ...
    Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner lifeand its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gormancharts the emergence of our contemporaryidea of worry in the Victorian era and itsestablishment, after the First World War,as a feature of modernity. For some writersbetween the Wars, worry was the “diseaseof the age.”Worrying examines the everyday kind ofworry-the fearful, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Rethinking Military History

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Rethinking Military History is a bold new 'thought book' that reconsiders military history at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The chapters provide a valuable and concise survey of the main themes in the study of military history from 1500 to the present day as Jeremy Black reveals the main trends in the practice and approach to mili ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Designing Online Communities

    How Designers, Developers, Community Managers, and Software Structure Discourse and Knowledge Production on the Web

    by Trevor Owens ...
    Series Book 72 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
    Discussion on the Web is mediated through layers of software and protocols. As scholars increasingly study communication and learning on the Internet, it is essential to consider how site administrators, programmers, and designers create interfaces and enable functionality. The managers, administrators, and designers of online communities can turn to more than 20 years of technical books for ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Run, Run, Run: A Young Boy's Journey through the Cambodian Tragedy

    by Glenn Boda ...
    Cambodia, 1975, Pol Pot succeeds in military vistory and ascends to a four year ablolute dictatorship. After victory, he plunges Cambodia into total isolation and inflicts genocide on 25% of his citizens, a per capita rate exceeding that of any other country in history including Germany. Pol dreams that counterrevolutionary forces will take control, thus ousting him from power. This must be ... Read more

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  • Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share

    Country and City in Australia

    by Judith Brett ...
    Series Book 42 - Quarterly Essay
    Once the country believed itself to be the true face of Australia: sunburnt men and capable women raising crops and children, enduring isolation and a fickle environment, carrying the nation on their sturdy backs. For almost 200 years after white settlement began, city Australia needed the country: to feed it, to earn its export income, to fill the empty land, to provide it with distinctive images ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • How Courts Impact Federal Administrative Behavior

    by Robert J. Hume ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in North American Politics
    What impact do federal courts have on the administrative agencies of the federal government? How do agencies react to the decisions of federal courts? This book answers these questions by examining the responses of federal agencies to the U.S. Courts of Appeals, revealing what happens inside agencies after courts rule against them. Robert J. Hume draws upon dozens of interviews with current and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Memory Politics, Identity and Conflict

    Historical Memory as a Variable

    by Zheng Wang ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on the methodology of research on historical memory and contributes to theoretical discussions concerning the use of historical memory as a variable to explain political action and social movement. The chapters of the book conceptualize the relationship between historical memory and national identity formation, perceptions, and policy-making. The author particularly analyses how ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Causality

    Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought

    by Stephen Kern ...
    This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Human Rights Policies in Chile

    The Unfinished Struggle for Truth and Justice

    by Silvia Borzutzky ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyses Chile’s “truth and justice” policies implemented between 1990 and 2013. The book’s central assumption is that human rights policies are a form of public policy and consequently they are the product of compromises among different political actors. Because of their political nature, these incomplete “truth and justice” policies instead of satisfying the victims’ demands and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD