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Routledge Studies in the Modern History Changing Visions of East Asia 1943-93: Transformations and Continuities (Paperback)

Ralph Smith was a highly respected historian who at the time of his death in December 2000 had nearly completed a manuscript chronicling changes in the East Asia region since 1943. This fascinating work completed and edited by Chad Mitcham one of Ralph... more

Routledge Studies in Cultural History The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe Book 1 (Hardcover)

In its various European contexts the invention and spread of newspapers in the seventeenth century had a profound effect on early modern culture and politics. While recent research has explored the role of the newspaper in transforming information into... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia: Secularism Decolonisation and the Cold War in South and Southeast Asia (Hardcover)

The intensifying conflicts between religious communities in contemporary South and Southeast Asia signify the importance of gaining a clearer understanding of how societies have historically organised and mastered their religious diversity. Based on... more

Routledge Studies in the History of Econ Keynes and Modern Economics Book 143 (Hardcover)

Leading economists including Ed Nell and Heinz Kurz have joined forces in this volume with internationally respected Japanese scholars to produce a strong collection of contributions to the debate on Keynes monumental legacy. more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century Book 98 (Hardcover)

Xinjiang China s far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road a region of overlapping cultures the province was virtually independent until the late... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation: The Euro-American World and Beyond 1780-1914 (Paperback)

This book investigates the causes and effects of modernisation in rural regions of Britain and Ireland continental Europe the Americas and Australasia between 1780 and 1914. In this period the transformation of the world economy associated with the... more

The Japanese Occupation of Borneo 1941-45 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

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Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy: The Macroeconomics of Global Imbalances (Hardcover)

This book is the result of a workshop on the effects of globalization on Asian and European countries organized by Marc Uzan and the Austrian Ministry of Finance in April 2006. Bringing together key academics policy makers and private market... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History: Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century: Conceptualisations Experiences Transfers (Paperback)

Historical research on modern dictatorship has often neglected the relevance of the nineteenth century instead focusing on twentieth-century dictatorial rules. Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century brings together scholars of political thought the... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History Post-War Borneo 1945-1950: Nationalism Empire and State-Building (Hardcover)

This book examines Borneo both British Borneo - Brunei Sarawak and North Borneo - and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation the likely future status of the various Bornean territories... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World (Hardcover)

This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world - revealing the motives for violence showing the link between religious and secular grievances and illuminating Catholic pluralism. Catholics and Violence in the... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Ec Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-War Japan (Hardcover)

This volume examines different aspects of the Japanese experience in a comparative context. There is much here of relevance to contemporary developing countries anxious to initiate the experience of miraculous growth and anxious to avoid the subsequent... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Italy: Anti-Southern Racism and Education in Post-War Italy (Hardcover)

This book investigates the racism against Southern Italian children attending North-Western primary schools between the 1950s and the 1970s. Turin serves as the main case study having become the third Southern city after Naples and Palermo during the... more

Routledge Research in Early Modern History: Images of Change: Visual Representations of Papal Power in Rome Following the Council of Trent (Hardcover)

Images of Change focuses on the visual propaganda employed by Catholic popes in Rome during the time of Tridentine Reform. In 1563 at the Council of Trent the Catholic Church decided to reform its own use of imagery in response to Protestant criticism.... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History The Saga of Edmund Burke (Hardcover)

This book offers an examination of responses to Edmund Burke from the last decades of the eighteenth century to the present day ending with the question whether there is still a role for him to play in post-Thatcher England. It includes a chapter... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Ec The Indonesian Labour Market (Hardcover)

The topics of unemployment underemployment wage trends and patterns and the relationship between poverty and the labour market are of interest to all policy makers researchers academics and journalists concerned with economic development. This book... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History: The Cold War the Space Race and the Law of Outer Space (Paperback)

The Cold War the Space Race and the Law of Outer Space: Space for Peace tells the story of one of the United Nations most enduring and least known achievements: the adoption of five multilateral treaties that compose the international law of outer... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History The Communist International Anti-Imperialism and Racial Equality in British Dominions (Paperback)

This book analyzes the stance of international communism towards nationality anti-colonialism and racial equality as defined by the Communist International (Comintern) during the interwar period. Central to the volume is a comparative analysis of the... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Ec Foreign Direct Investment in China: Spillover Effects on Domestic Enterprises (Hardcover)

This book provides an insightful exploration of whether foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote the productivity of domestic enterprises. The book is based on a series of dedicated research conducted in the context of the Chinese economy which has... more

Routledge Studies in Modern British History: Labour in the Suburbs: Political Change in Croydon During the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)

This book is the first comprehensive economic social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day. One of the largest London boroughs Croydon has always been a mixed residential suburb (mainly private but with... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History Southeast Asia and the Great Powers (Paperback)

The success of regionalism in Southeast Asia depends on the attitudes of the states within the region but also on the attitude of those outside it. This book is an erudite and stimulating study on the latter. Placing these states in a long term... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia: The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru 1570-1610 (Paperback)

The rulers of the overseas empires summoned the Society of Jesus to evangelize their new subjects in the New World which Spain and Portugal shared; this book is about how two different missions in China and Peru evolved in the early modern world. From... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Ec Foreign Direct Investments in Asia (Hardcover)

This book covers nine countries of ASEAN and the East Asian area including major Asian countries and compares their respective policies to attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). Through comparative study of FDI promotion policies this book will give... more

Routledge Studies in the History of Econ Innovation Knowledge and Growth: Adam Smith Schumpeter and the Moderns Book 104 (Hardcover)

This book deals with the prime movers of socio-economic development innovations and technical change their origins forms and effects. It contains a set of closely related chapters some of which have been previously published as papers in scholarly... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of France: The Making of the Citizen-Worker (Hardcover)

The book addresses how work became so central to our systems of citizenship and social recognition by considering the French context in the long transition between the 1789 and 1848 revolutions and focusing on a specific fragment of history in the... more

Routledge Family Therapy and Counseling: Solving Modern Family Dilemmas: An Assimilative Therapy Model (Paperback)

Context is the unifying principle that guides a therapist s formulation of the modern family s presenting dilemmas functioning relationships and attitudes. We can no longer assume that a family is comprised of a mother father and children; the... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Ec Immigrant Enterprise in Europe and the USA (Paperback)

Immigrant-owned enterprises are a highly visible phenomenon but frequently and increasingly so after 9/11 immigration has been cast in pessimistic and apocalyptic terms which became associated with rising xenophobia and restrictive legislation such as... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia: Fighting Japan s Cold War: Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and His Times (Hardcover)

Yasuhiro Nakasone who served as prime minister for more than five years in the 1980s was one of Japan s leading postwar politicians. This book is a biography of him but by interweaving international politics and media appraisals of him it also serves... more

Routledge Research in Early Modern History: Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice: And Must They All Be Hanged? (Paperback)

This volume uses four case studies all with strong London connections to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England. Each reveals evidence of how attempts were made to negotiate a path through the justice system to... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Ec Expanding Frontiers of Global Trade Rules: The Political Economy Dynamics of the International Trading System (Paperback)

This book analyses one of the most controversial areas in the political economy of international trade namely the issues surrounding the creation of new trade rules . Various concerns are addressed including the environment labour standards... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Italy: Mussolini s Camps: Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy (1940-1943) (Paperback)

This book--which is based on vast archival research and on a variety of primary sources--has filled a gap in Italy s historiography on Fascism and in European and world history about concentration camps in our contemporary world. It provides for the... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Ec The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America (Hardcover)

When the 2008 housing market bubble burst in the United States a financial crisis rippled from the epi-center in the United States across borders into economies both near and far causing persistent social and economic detriment in many countries. The... more

Routledge Research in Early Modern History: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Paperback)

This volume provides a fresh perspective of the history and legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as well as the often-disputed memory of it in contemporary Europe. The unions between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History: Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia: From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation (Paperback)

This book is a contribution to the global history of the transfer of political ideas as exemplified by the case of modern Ethiopia. Like many non-European nation-states Ethiopia adopted a western model of statehood that is the nation-state. Unlike the... more

Routledge Studies in Modern European History: The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals (Hardcover)

Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History: Food History: A Feast of the Senses in Europe 1750 to the Present (Paperback)

This pioneering book elevates the senses to a central role in the study of food history because the traditional focus upon food types quantities and nutritional values is incomplete without some recognition of smell touch sight hearing and taste.... more

Routledge Studies in Modern European History: The Legacies of the Romani Genocide in Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)

This book explores the legacies of the genocide of Roma in Europe after the end of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people labelled as Gypsies were persecuted or killed in Nazi Germany and across occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945. In... more

Routledge Studies in Cultural History: Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country 1800 to 1936 (Paperback)

Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country 1800 to 1936 studies the relationship between landscape and modern identities in the Basque Country. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines cultural history and geography it analyses the... more