Regional Studies

Affrilachia, a term first coined in 1991 by Kentucky poet Frank X Walker, refers to the cultural contributions of African Americans who live in App...

This book examines the social and cultural history of Bengal through two major themes the intellectual and cultural dimension, and the socio-econo...

Communication is changing rapidly around the world, particularly in Africa, where citizens are embracing digital technologies not only to improve n...

Masculinities in Forests: Representations of Diversity demonstrates the wide variability in ideas about, and practice of, masculinity in different ...

Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Vene...

Unlike many other books on pornography which concentrate on arguments about restricting or not restricting pornography, this book focuses on the pr...

On a planet where urbanization is rapidly expanding, nowhere is the growth more pronounced than in cities of the global South, and in particular, A...

This book aims to explore precisely how modern Japanese poetry has remained central to public life in both Japan and its former colony of Taiwan.Th...

This volume brings together scholarship from two different, and until now, largely separate literaturesthe study of the children of immigrants and ...

From a country plagued with chronic food shortage, the Green Revolution turned India into a food-grain self-sufficient nation within the decade of ...

A comprehensive survey of the countries and territories of this region, incorporating the latest economic and political developments.General Survey...

Singapore´s journey during the past 45 years is an outstanding example that, in spite of multiple hardships, pragmatic policies, clear visions, lon...

Exhaustively researched and updated, South Asia 2024 is an in-depth library of information on the countries and territories of this vast world regi...

Now in its sixty-ninth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world ...

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The African Union continues to offer the most comprehensive overview of the work of the African Un...

First published in 1998, reissued here with a new preface, this volume is the first full-length discussion of womens experiences in the solicitors ...

China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the countrys rise without leading to its whol...