To what extent do newly available case records bear out our conventional assumptions about the Qing legal system? Is it true, for example, that Qing...
This pioneering volume shows that contrary to previous scholarly understanding, the courts in Qing (16441911) and Republican (19111949) China dealt extensively with civil matters such...
This pioneering volume shows that contrary to previous scholarly understanding, the courts in Qing (16441911) and Republican (19111949) China dealt extensively with civil matters such...
This book is the first comprehensive, systematic investigation of the connection between civil society and political change in Asiachange toward open, participatory, and accountable politics....
Civilization' is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? Civilization and Its Contents...
Civilization' is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? Civilization and Its Contents...
Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during...
Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during...
This account of the interplay of politics and economics in Chile in three successive administrations ending with the 1973 coup suggests that social class plays...
This account of the interplay of politics and economics in Chile in three successive administrations ending with the 1973 coup suggests that social class plays...
This volume brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese prose dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, a period during which...
Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force. Despite the fierce debate raging about it in government, society and...
About the Author Muthiah Alagappa is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the EastWest Center. He is the editor of Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features...
Although academics have paid much attention to contentious politics in China and elsewhere, research on the outcomes of social protests, both direct and indirect, in...
Using the expansive vernacular of black and white night photography to modify the antiquarian sensibility ordinarily brought to the study of Mexico's colonial architectures, Colonial...
Using the expansive vernacular of black and white night photography to modify the antiquarian sensibility ordinarily brought to the study of Mexico's colonial architectures, Colonial...
Two hundred years after his birth, Alexander Pushkin still issues a dynamic, liberating challenge to Russia's cultural identity. His story has promised national coherence and...
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This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the British visual imagination....
A critical examination of the labour government and trades Union Congress in the immediate postwar period, this book argues that the Cold War was not...
The goal of the British governments in the interwar period was balance among the European great powersbalance which would restore peace as well as a...
About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and...
About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and...
Familymaking in America is in a state of fluxthe ways people compose their families is changing, including those who choose to adopt. Broken Links, Enduring...
Brokers of Culture examines the interactions among multiple ethnic groups in the American West and a group of nearly four hundred Italian Jesuits who emigrated...
This study examines the emergence and evolution in China of a tradition of popular organization generally known under the rubric of secret society. The author...
Financial market bubbles are recurring, often painful, reminders of the costs and benefits of capitalism. While many books have studied financial manias and crises, most...
Throughout its history, Buddhism has developed a sophisticated philosophy of materiality, addressing the status of material objects and their role in the quest for salvation....
This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their socalled golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial...
Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of...
Collusion between business communities and the state can lead to a measure of security for those in power, but this kind of interaction often limits...
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