Series: Economic HistoryThis volume collects together essays and lectures given by the author from 1922-1927 to a variety of international audiences. Together they illuminate essential aspects of the
Series: Economic HistoryThis volume collects eleven essays written by Japanese experts on various aspects of Japanese business management and is a sequel to the volume Industry and Business in Japan.
Series: Economic HistoryContributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfilment in widely differing cultu
Series: Economic HistoryShing?, on the northern shores of Kyushu is today a suburb of Fukuoka City. Fishing is a slowly-dying occupation and this volume analyses how the fishermen adjust to changing c
Series: Economic HistoryOriginally published in 1952, this account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan has been enlarged by two new chapters that extend the story from 1798 to 1830. Th
Series: Economic HistoryThe Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History engages in the most recent trends in scholarship of the French Revolution and its aftermath by placi
Series: Economic HistoryThe Manchurian 'Incident' of 1931 led to a Japanese occupation, the birth of Manchoukuo and the withdrawal of Japan from the League of Nations. At the time it seemed as if the
Series: Economic HistoryFocussing on the four main phases of modernizing and modernized Japan beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to today?s postmodern society, this groundbreaking work
Series: Economic HistorySince the late 1970s, China has transformed from an inefficient centrally planned backwater to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. While economic reform has enabled avera
Series: Economic HistoryThis volume draws together material from The Japan Chronicle, The Japan Gazette and the China Treaty Port foreign papers, all of which are of great historical value. These
Series: Economic HistoryNakano has received very little attention in works in English on the relevant period, as his approaches to effective power were limited while his career also lacks the violent
Series: Economic HistoryDescribed as the Japanese Mein Kampf, this small pamphlet outlines the history of Japan which by the late 1920s was, according to the author, becoming a dream for world dominat
Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have
We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existen
Series: Economic HistoryWarfare in Japan from the fourth to the nineteenth century has caused much controversy among Western military and political historians. This volume assembles key articles writt
The first comprehensive presentation and discussion of Jeremy Bentham's contributions to international relations theory.Bentham is best known amongst political theory scholars as most of his brilliant
Series: Critical Concepts in the Social SciencesThe book contributes to a critical reflection of current legislative and jurisprudential developments in Non-Discrimination Law, focusing on the Europea
This revised and updated version of a successful and established text, French National Cinema offers a thorough and much-needed historical overview of French cinema at a time when it continues to grow
Given the rise and fall of parties, their mergers and separations, and the results in legislation, contributors to this collection of 11 articles examine the complexities of party relationships within
Every day newspapers in the Western world carry articles about illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and other migrants. The focus of these articles varies greatly from migrants as a threat to one or ano
Series: Law, Justice and PowerThe Routledge Handbook of Stylistics covers all major stylistics topics in a comprehensive and detailed fashion from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience.
In this second edition of Arthur Keaveney's classic biography, a fresh generation of students, scholars and readers are introduced to one of the most pivotal figures in the outgoing Roman Empire.A def
Series: Routledge Library of Folklore and Popular CultureThe second edition of this bestselling handbook covers virtually all the information an engineer would need to know about any type of bridge?fr
Political corruption in the Caribbean Basin retards state economic growth and development, undermines government legitimacy, and threatens state security. In spite of recent anti-corruption efforts of
Providing a concise, balanced and incisive analysis of US diplomatic relations with Latin America from 1776 to the end of the twentieth century, this timely work explores central themes such as the st
Explaining the concept of death to a child is a very difficult, confusing, and uncomfortable experience for a parent, educator, or therapist, and it is a topic that is often first introduced by the lo
Bringing the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community, this comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to th
Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism provides an up-to-date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states. The book includes normative, institutional and compar
Karyn McKinney uses written autobiographies solicited from young white people to empirically analyze the contours of the white experience in U.S. society. This text offers a unique view of whiteness b
In this completely updated edition of 500 Tips on Assessment, the authors look at the questions and the problems that teachers face and provide them with practical guidance. Their advice is down-to-ea
Series: The International Library of Essays in TerrorismThis set brings together the vast array of historical research into the reality of the man, the teachings, and the acts and events ascribed to h
Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser present a vivid interdisciplinary study devoted to the life, work and extant vita of Christina of Markyate, which draws on research from a wide range of disciplines.
Science is one of the main features of the contemporary world, and shapes our lives to an extent that has no precedents in history. Yet science as we know it today is the outcome of contingent social
This book provides a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong from its time as a British colony to its current status as a special autonomous regio
For International Relations scholars, discussions of globalization inevitably turn to questions of sovereignty. How much control does a country have over its borders, people and economy? Where does th
This fresh and engaging book looks at each of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar in 44BC to Romulus Augustulus in AD 476, illuminating not only the manner of their deaths but what their final days
Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural StudiesExamining the political economy of punishment, this book debates the view that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the tr
Series: Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850Providing a comprehensive analysis of drug misuse, dependence and the ways in which different parts of the world have responded to these problems, this vo
Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, T
How and why countries become democracies remain intriguing questions. This innovative volume provides a theoretically informed comparative investigation of the links between revolutions, totalitariani
