American Gold in Post-Second World War Taiwan
U.S. gold, sent to stabilize China’s currency during WWII, played a pivotal role in enabling a free China to thrive in Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek wisely used the remaining reserve to support Taiwan’s economy, creating crucial stability to avert a communist invasion.
This first overview of Romanian political discourse analyzes genres from parliamentary debates to protest memes. The analysis reveals the specifics of the lesser-known Romanian style of political communication, fostering cultural awareness for an international readership.
Space, Identity and Discourse in Anglophone Studies
This book explores the intersections where cultures, languages, and spaces converge to shape identities. Examining literary works, political narratives, and language use, this collection contributes to scholarly dialogues on identity construction through border crossings.
This volume explores the historical background of contemporary social and economic issues. It argues that globalisation is not new, and that deep history offers essential lessons about wealth, the nature of money, and the understanding of justice.
Development as Service
This account of Global South wellbeing perspectives like Ubuntu and Buen Vivir sheds new light on sustainable development. It critiques the logic of linear growth and individualism, proposing a new path: Development as Service, centered on reciprocity and culture.
This book explores the roles Nigerian women have played since pre-colonial times in shaping their culture and society. It highlights the effects of patriarchy, colonialism, and industry on women in Africa’s most populous country, making a major contribution to women’s history.
In 1767, the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish America. This book provides an overview of their urban colegios and frontier missions at the time of the expulsion, focusing on the Guaraní missions. This volume contains a visual catalog of historic maps and images.
The Christian Cross in American Public Life
From towering monuments to roadside memorials, the cross is a vital symbol in American life. It marks identity, grief, and sacrifice, while sparking legal debates over church and state. This volume explores the cross in art, politics, and culture in an accessible A-to-Z format.
The integrated musical emerged not in the 20th century, but in the 18th with Charles Dibdin. He wrote, composed, and performed in innovative musicals, blending Italian opera and English ballads to create an organic musical theatre that paved the way for the art form today.
Facilitating with Stories
This book connects theory and practice for professionals working with stories. It offers a unique inquiry into the ethics and philosophies of facilitation, supporting educators, facilitators, and consultants towards more effective and considered practice.
Management Footsteps and Foundations
For the first time, the foundations of management are brought to life through historical analysis. This daringly innovative book takes the reader on a journey through human history from a management perspective, utterly transforming our understanding of the subject.
This volume incorporates responses to the charge that there is something irrational about believing in God, given all the evil in the world. It critiques the problem of evil, offers a narrative response, and relates the problem of evil to developments in modern analytic theology.
Late Nineteenth-Century Italy in Africa
Bruner looks at an 1891 affair concerning a claim that officials in Italy’s Red Sea colony ordered the secret and brutal killing of certain indigenous notables. He studies how this affair re-shaped the Italian outlook on colonialism, opening the door to conflicts and battles.
The Neo Abu Sayyaf
East follows the rise of criminality in the greater Mindanao region regarding the participation of major players in the suppression of the Moros—indigenous Muslims. He contemplates, among other things, why a murderous group such as the Abu Sayyaf has so much local support.
Sports and Violence
The essays collected here reflect on the confluence of violence within organized sports. They detail past phenomena of sports violence, but also offers ethnographic and sociological explorations alongside philosophical treatments of sports violence.
This volume investigates the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity play themselves out, in order to illumine the very instability and fluidity of identity as a static category.
This title covers literature from the beginning of the Jacobean period to the end of the Victorian era. Centring on the city of London, it explores different aspects of the interaction of literature and place, covering works by major figures within this time period.
Animal Narratives and Culture
Barcz’s monograph explains how realism is a narration that tests nonhuman vulnerable experience. The first part gives examples of realism’s redefinition in trauma studies, the second probes what is added to the narrative by literature, and the third analyses cultural texts.
The Collectio Avellana is an exceptional documentary collection from antiquity. This volume is the first to reconstruct its history, using a new approach to offer fresh hypotheses on the compilation’s origins, its author, and how it took shape.
This is the first book to explore color history in Asia. Color is a language of signals, associated with changes in society, economic development, and dynasties. A valuable resource for practitioners of art and design, it offers a new perspective on Chinese aesthetics.
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