Ethnic Studies

 This is the first of two volumes on the transformation of China since 1978. The second volume concentrates on the government administration of the...

This book, a study of revolution in China, considers movements of Western origin, such as Christianity or Communism, only as they appear in the Chi...

Southeast Asia, although not garnering the headlines of ten to twenty years ago, is important in global politics. Vietnam's domination of Indochina...

First published in 1990, this book was intended as a counter to the rising and continued strength of the New Right and an attempt to bolster the pe...

This volume considers the African Diaspora through the underexplored Afro-Latino experience in the Caribbean and South America. Utilizing both esta...

This title was first published in 2000. Patterns of racism and disadvantage vary throughout Britain, yet most British research continues to focus ...

This is one of the first volumes that uses economic tools to analyse and evaluate law and policy in India. Applying economic theories such as incen...

Latin America occupies an increasingly prominent position within the global political, economic and cultural consciousness, with intra-regional gov...

This innovative multidisciplinary collection brings together the latest research on human rights issues in the Asian region, by leading scholars wi...

This title was first published in 2001. Terrorism is today a global problem and, as was recently demonstrated in Kenya and Tanzania, no country is ...

This title was first published in 1979

This edited volume considers the many ways in which landscape (seen and unseen) is fundamental to placemaking, colonial settlement, and identity fo...

This title was first published in 2003. This work arose out of the editors' concerns at the British preoccupation with an alleged epidemic of schiz...

This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...

This book discusses what is now called Buddhism. It started as an effort to strengthen a weak point in that immanence which had become the accepted...

Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural co...

This book explores the interactions between social policy and migration in China. Using a theoretical framework of institutional economics, Lida Fa...

This book postulates that amae is a motivational factor with universal impact upon Japanese people. It explores the ways in which amae affects poli...

This title was first published in 2000: The book gives a discussion and many empirical examples of the possibilities for comparative research on ra...

This collection explores democratic transitions in East Asia, arguing against the standard wisdom that European or Christian value systems and soci...

This book demonstrates how two goals the substitution of socialist views for embedded traditional values, and the use of China's actual and potent...

This title was first published in 2002: The trade union movement in twentieth-century Britain has been a cornerstone for societys marginalized memb...

Account of the origins, history and practice of Yoga from the viewpoint of someone who is learned, but is not himself a practicioner.

This book deals firstly with the economic and social conditions of life among the villagers, the artisans, and other workers in cities and towns of...