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Law, Disorder and the Colonial State
By Jonathan Saha. 2013
In this original study British rule in Burma is examined through quotidian acts of corruption. Saha outlines a novel way…
to study the colonial state as it was experienced in everyday life, revealing a complex world of state practices where legality and illegality were inseparable: the informal world upon which formal colonial power rested.Asian Thought On China’s Changing International Relations
By Niv Horesh, Emilian Kavalski. 2014
At the end of the Cold War, commentators were pondering how far Western ideas would spread; today, the debate seems…
to be how far Chinese ideas will reach. This volume examines Chinese international relations thought and practices, identifying the extent to which China's rise has provoked fresh geo-strategic and intellectual shifts within Asia.Taiwan
By John F Copper. 1975
In this newly revised and updated edition of Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? John F. Copper examines Taiwan's geography and history,…
society and culture, economy, political system, and foreign and security policies in the context of Taiwan's uncertain political status as either a sovereign nation or a province of the People's Republic of China. Copper argues that Taiwan's very rapid and successful democratization suggests Taiwan should be independent and separate from China, while economic links between Taiwan and China indicate the opposite. New to the sixth edition is enhanced coverage of the issues of immigration; the impact of having the world's lowest birthrate; China's economic and military rise and America's decline; Taiwan's relations with China, the United States, and Japan; and the KMT's (Nationalist Party) return to power. The new edition will also examine the implications of the 2012 presidential election. A selected bibliography guides students in further research.Narratives of Diaspora
By Walter S. H. Lim. 2013
Chinese American authors often find it necessary to represent Asian history in their literary works. Tracing the development of the…
literary production of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Lisa See, and Russell Leong, among others, this book captures the effects of international politics and globalization on Chinese American diasporic consciousness.Poetics and Politics of Iran’s National Epic, the Shāhnāmeh
By Mahmoud Omidsalar. 2011
This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are…
not only methodologically flawed, but are also more revealing of Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they are about the Shahnameh.Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination
By Ihab Saloul. 2012
This book addresses central concepts to debates over Palestinian identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced…
travel, identity as representationally performative, and post-memory and geopolitical continuity of loss of place in the everyday.Nationalism and Human Rights
By Grace Cheng. 2012
Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage
By Min Tian. 2012
The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who…
specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art.Arming the Periphery
By Emrys Chew. 2012
A major historical study of the global arms trade, revolving around the transfer of small arms from metropolitan Europe to…
the turbulent frontiers of Indian Ocean societies during the 'long' nineteenth century (c. 1780-1914).Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire
By Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee. 2013
Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and…
culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about disasters, state and society can be traced back to the 19th-century British imperial experience.The Indian Periodical Press and the Production of Nationalist Rhetoric
By Sukeshi Kamra. 2011
Considers the Indian periodical press as a key forum for the production of nationalist rhetoric. It argues that between the…
1870s and 1910, the press was the place in which the notion of 'the public' circulated and where an expansive middle class, and even larger reading audience, was persuaded into believing it had force.Reading the Animal in the Literature of the British Raj
By Shefali Rajamannar. 2012
This book explores representations of animals during British rule in India - the tigers, elephants, boars, furs, and feathers that…
so often all but obscured the human beneath and behind them, and that were such an important part of creating and maintaining the hierarchies that were the cornerstones of colonialism. The book exists on two levels: one offers a sophisticated view of how power and oppression work within constellations of species, race, class, gender, and nationhood, and the other is a deeply suggestive meditation on our humanness and how we locate it within a spectrum of relations. Drawing on a range of texts (hunting narratives, stories, poetry, novels, photographs, journals, paintings, and cartoons) the argument builds with a lucid and beautifully unintrusive feel for the telling example.American Military Intervention in Unconventional War
By Wayne Bert. 2011
A study of the major U. S. military interventions in unconventional war, this book looks at four wars that occurred while the…
U. S. was a superpower in the post-war WW II period and one in the Philippines in 1898.Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building
By Mohammed M. A. Ahmed. 2012
Shining a light on how Iraqi Kurds used the aftermath of the 1991 Kurdish uprising to hold elections and form…
a parliament, and on how Kurdish officials later consolidated their regional government following the 2003 Iraq War, this book considers the political and economic shortfalls of the government and the obstacles facing Iraqi Kurds.The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070–1309
By Jonathan Riley-Smith. 2012
As one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital…
of St John was a major landowner and a significant political presence in most European states. It was also a leading player in the settlements established in the Levant in the wake of the crusades. It survives today. In this source-based and up-to-date account of its activities and internal history in the first two centuries of its existence, attention is particularly paid to the lives of the brothers and sisters who made up its membership and were professed religious. Themes in the book relate to the tension that always existed between the Hospital's roles as both a hospitaller and a military order and its performance as an institution that was at the same time a religious order and a great international corporation.The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans
By Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman. 2011
Explores how American youth are indoctrinated with Zionist mythology and how to intervene in that process by teaching about Palestine. It argues…
that as the relationship between Zionist education and the Israel lobby continues to be strong, it is necessary to correct the misrepresentations that infiltrate Western culture.Old Conflict, New War
By Uri Ben-Eliezer. 2012
The book provides a comprehensive sociological and cultural explanation of Israel's politics toward the Palestinians, covering the period of the…
Oslo Accords and the Second Intifada and focusing on the concept of a 'new war' that is an outgrowth of internal relations within Israel itself and the diversionary politics of its leadership.Nonviolent Resistance in the Second Intifada
By Maia Carter Hallward, Julie M. Norman. 2011
Offering diverse perspectives from scholars, practitioners, and activists, this bookillustrates the potential strengths and challenges of unarmed resistance in Palestine…
by Palestinians as well as of internationals and Israelis acting in solidarity.Zhang Xueliang
By Aron Shai. 2012
The first book to tell the strange and fascinating story of General Zhang Xue-liang, the Chinese-Manchurian 'Young Marshall' - a man who left…
an indelible mark on the history of modern China, but few know his story. Unlocking the mystery of this man's life, Aron Shai helps to shed light on 20th-century China.The Global Economic Crisis and Consequences for Development Strategy in Dubai
By Ali Tawfik Al Sadik, Ibrahim Ahmed Elbadawi. 2012
This book identifies and addresses the impacts of the global financial crisis on Dubai and the region. The issues are…
highlighted and analyzed by a group of distinguished scholars. Specifically, discussions are focused on the following four interrelated issues: Why and how the financial crisis happened and what are its consequences for the economies of the Middle East?Defining the emerging global regulatory framework and the new financial architecture; The long term development strategy for the UAE / Dubai in the post crisis global economy; and The oil market and the global financial crisis