Sociology
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Reinventing China: The Experience of Contemporary Chinese Returnees from the West [Paperback]
Zhuqing Li (Author)
£32.99ISBN: 9781626430518
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
This study examines a small group of highly educated Chinese who have exerted outsized influence on China's recent rise. They share one thing in common - they all left China to study in the US and subsequently returned to China to apply what they ... .... Learn More -
Social Stratification in Contemporary China: Definitive Survey and Analysis [Hardback]
Li Qiang (Author)
£83.99ISBN: 9781626430372
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
Social Stratification in Contemporary China raises and debates major sociological issues of modern and present-day China from a historical perspective. Such topics as "equality and inequality"and "acceptability of defined inequality" have been dea... .... Learn More -
Preserving the Shanghai Ghetto: Memories of Jewish Refugees in 1940's China [Paperback]
Yanhua (Author); Wang Jian (Author)
£32.99ISBN: 9781626430495
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
The Tilanqiao neighborhood of the Hongkew district in Shanghai, China had become in the mid-1940s, as a result of European discrimination against the Jews, a Noah's ark for sheltering Jews and contained a large number of elite Jewish people from C... .... Learn More -
Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel [Paperback]
Maryjean Wall (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780813168449
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Topics in Kentucky History
Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous ... .... Learn More -
My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South [Hardback]
Sergio A. Lussana (Author)
£41.50ISBN: 9780813166940
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: New Directions in Southern History
Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shared with other enslaved men that carried him through his darkest days. In this pioneering study, S... .... Learn More -
Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars [Paperback]
Fred Dallmayr (Author)
£33.00ISBN: 9780813166339
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
In addition to war, terrorism, and unchecked military violence, modernity is also subject to less visible but no less venomous conflicts. Global in nature, these "culture wars" exacerbate the tensions between tradition and innovation, virtue and f... .... Learn More -
Being in the World: Dialogue and Cosmopolis [Paperback]
Fred Dallmayr (Author)
£33.00ISBN: 9780813166292
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
It is commonly agreed that we live in an age of globalization, but the profound consequences of this development are rarely understood. Usually, globalization is equated with the expansion of economic and financial markets and the proliferation of... .... Learn More -
Children, Spaces and Identity [Paperback]
Margarita Sánchez Romero (Editor); Eva Alarcón García (Editor); Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez (Editor)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9781782979357
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Childhood in the Past Monograph
Volume: 4
How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists from archaeology, h... .... Learn More -
Revisiting Colonial and Post-Colonial: Anthropological Studies of the Cultural Interface [Paperback]
Heung Wah Wong (Editor); Keiji Maegawa (Editor)
£46.99ISBN: 9781626430129
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
This collection of original essays interrogates the nature of intercultural and intra-cultural encounters through anthropological case studies of Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. The chapters show that parties involved in intercultural or in... .... Learn More -
The Promise and Perils of Populism: Global Perspectives [Hardback]
Carlos de la Torre (Editor)
£66.50ISBN: 9780813146867
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
From the protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to the Tea Party in the United States to the campaign to elect indigenous leader Evo Morales in Bolivia, modern populist movements command international attention and compel political and social change.... .... Learn More
