Regional Studies

Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media, Sex in ...

Japan Emerging provides a comprehensive survey of Japan from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Incorporating the latest scholarship and methodo...

Culture and the Cuban State examines the politics of culture in communist Cuba. It focuses on cultural policy, censorship, and the political partic...

In the twentieth century Japan emerged as one of the worlds leading economic powers: rising from wartime destruction to a leading economic engine i...

Overseas department of France in Amazonia and ultraperipheral region of the EU, Guyane (French Guiana) is at the juncture of Europe, the Caribbean ...

Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as s...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Hired Daughters examines a fading tradition of domestic service in which rural girls familiar to ordinary Moroccan families were placed in their ho...

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

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

This is the second part of a series that has been established to reprint all the volumes of The Japan Year Book, first published in the pre-war per...

This is the second part of a series that has been established to reprint all the volumes of The Japan Year Book, first published in the pre-war per...

Exhaustively researched and updated, South Asia 2015 is an in-depth library of information on the countries and territories of this vast world regi...

Combining impartial analysis with reliable facts and figures, this fully revised and updated 19th edition provides up-to-date commentary on these v...

Europa's comprehensive survey of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.General SurveyLeading authorities on the region analyze topics of regional...