Interdisciplinary Studies

In recent years, scholars have noted the rise of a particular type of authoritarianism worldwide, in which rulers manipulate institutions designed ...

Chinas Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is intended to radically increase investment and integration along a series of land and maritime routes. As t...

Historically, the Golden Triangle on the Mekong River has been a strategic yet largely impoverished crossroads between Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and...

What every electrical engineering student and technical professional needs to know about data exchange across networks While most electrical engine...

Stories of Sports: Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption, and Dissemination discusses how media demonstrates privilege, policing, ster...

Now in its 68th edition, The Europa World of Learning is one of the world's leading reference works. Updated to the highest editorial standards, en...

The definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic, political, statistical and directory data. Gen...

The definitive survey of the countries and territories of Western Europe, comprising expert analysis and commentary, up-to-date economic and socio-...

This is the tenth part of the facsimile reprint series of the leading English newspaper published in Yokohama throughout the Meiji era. It represen...

This is the 11th and final part of the facsimile reprint series of the leading English newspaper published in Yokohama throughout the Meiji era. It...

Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the trop...

Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental HistoryIn the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one o...

A Gift of Barbed Wire is a penetrating look at the lives of South Vietnamese officials and their families left behind in Vietnam after the fall of ...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrilaa place that previousl...

The works presented in this collection take environmental scholarship in South Asia into novel territory by exploring how questions of national ide...

Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities. Tracking the development of ...

The Persian Gulf has come to represent one of the most strategically significant waterways of the world. In terms of geography, geopolitics, resour...

This book won the 2014 Applied Communication Division Award for Outstanding Edited Book There is a growing interest in studying nonprofit organiza...

The global attention in recent years has focused primarily on water quantity and allocation issues. Water quality has received significantly less a...

We are witnessing a sea change regarding mental health in sports media, led in part by professional athletes such as Michael Phelps, Kevin Love, Na...

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Writ...

This book examines core thematic approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and analyzes case studies regarding the implementation of this i...

CROSS REF DEV STUDIES Both Africa and the Middle East have sought alternatives to Western models of development. The last twenty-five years have se...