Abelmann, Nancy: No Alternative?, 2013
Abstract: No Alternative? examines education in South Korea beyond daytime K-16 schooling—an escalating phenomenon in an increasingly neoliberal and globalizing society. Ethnographic portraits of private after-schooling, alternative schooling, home schooling, and adult distance education reveal that...

Bevir, Mark: A Theory of Governance, 2013
Abstract: This book explores philosophical, sociological, and democratic approaches to organization. Bevir offers a humanist and historicist perspective, arguing that people creatively make and remake organizations in particular contexts. By highlighting the meaningful and contingent nature...

Chen, Jack W: Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional China, 2013
Abstract: Gossip and anecdote may be “idle talk,” but they also serve to knit together individuals in society and to provide the materials through which literary culture and historical memory are constructed. This groundbreaking book provides...

Fogel, Joshua A.: The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art, 2013
Abstract: “This ambitious, very important project defines no less than a new field of inquiry, one that scarcely could have been attempted in the past. The essays in this volume add enormously to the documentation of...

Ittman, Karl: A Problem of Great Importance: Population, Race, and Power in the British Empire, 1918-1973, 2013
Abstract: This volume examines the significant role population science played in British colonial policy in the twentieth century as the imperial state attempted to control colonial populations using new agricultural and public health policies, private family...

Pines, Yuri: Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin Revisited, 2013
Abstract: In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has...

Stevenson, Hayley: Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance, 2013
Abstract: “Presents a compelling and novel argument: that collective efforts to combat climate change have actually contributed to less sustainable modes of industrial growth. Much work has looked at the details of national and international climate...

Suh, Serk-Bae: Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s, 2013
Abstract: This book examines the role of translation—the rendering of texts and ideas from one language to another, as both act and trope—in shaping attitudes toward nationalism and colonialism in Korean and Japanese intellectual discourse between...

Wagner, Corinna: Pathological Bodies, 2013
Abstract: This book explores the important connections between medicine and political culture that often have been overlooked. In response to the French revolution and British radicalism, political propagandists adopted a scientific vocabulary and medical images for...

Bailkin, Jordanna: The Afterlife of Empire, 2012
Abstract: “Quietly dazzling. . . . In this gripping account of welfare’s postcolonial history, Jordanna Bailkin throws the archives wide open and invites us to walk through them with new eyes—and with renewed appreciation for the...

Barraclough, Ruth: Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence, and Representation in Industrializing Korea, 2012
Abstract: “In this highly original work, Ruth Barraclough makes it absolutely clear that marginalized and degraded forms of literary expression, like those in which the factory girl figures, are fundamental to the definition and self-understanding of...

Detels, Roger; Sullivan, Sheena G.; Tan, Chorh Chuan: Public Health in East and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century, 2012
Abstract: “This volume is unique in its comprehensive investigation of the changing face of public health in East and Southeast Asia. The region’s countries have experienced major challenges resulting from colonialism, conflicts, economic and technological development,...

Fullagar, Kate: The Savage Visit, 2012
Abstract: In eighteenth-century Britain, the appearance of “savages” from the New World provoked intense fascination. Though such people had been arriving periodically for decades, it was only then that the “savage visit” became a sensation. Using...

Hall, Ian: Dilemmas of Decline, 2012
Abstract: In just three decades, Great Britain’s place in world politics was transformed. In 1945, it was the world’s preeminent imperial power with global interests. By 1975, Britain languished in political stasis and economic recession, clinging...

Moon, Katharine H. S.: Protesting America, 2012
Abstract: When the U.S.-Korea military alliance began to deteriorate in the 2000s, many commentators blamed "anti-Americanism" and nationalism, especially among younger South Koreans. Challenging these assumptions, this book argues that Korean activism around U.S. relations owes...

Mullaney, Thomas S.; Leibold, James; Gros, Stéphane; Vanden Bussche, Eric: Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority, 2012
Abstract: Addressing the problem of the ‘Han’ ethnos from a variety of relevant perspectives—historical, geographical, racial, political, literary, anthropological, and linguistic—Critical Han Studies offers a responsible, informative deconstruction of this monumental yet murky category. It is...

Palmer, David A.; Liu, Xun: Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity, 2012
Abstract: In Daoism in the Twentieth Century, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the social history and anthropology of Daoism from the late nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the evolution of traditional forms of...

Tusan, Michelle: Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East, 2012
Abstract: “Set against one of the most horrible atrocities of the early twentieth century, the ethnic cleansing of Western Anatolia and the burning of the city of Izmir, Smyrna’s Ashes is an important contribution to our...

Gunn, Simon; Vernon, James: The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain, 2011
Abstract: In this wide-ranging volume, leading scholars across several disciplines—history, literature, sociology, and cultural studies—investigate the nature of liberalism and modernity in imperial Britain since the eighteenth century. They show how Britain’s liberal version of modernity...

Judge, Joan; Hu, Ying: Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women's Biography in Chinese History, 2011
Abstract: “Clear, coherent, richly documented, and highly persuasive. I know of no other source devoted exclusively to the topic of Chinese women’s biographies, and I am confident that this book will have a ready audience in...

Lie, John: Modern Peoplehood: On Race, Racism, Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity, 2011

Nak-chung, Paik: The Division System in Crisis: Essays on Contemporary Korea, 2011
Abstract: Foreword by Bruce Cumings. Translated by Kim Myung-hwan, Sol June-Kyu,Song Seung-cheol, and Ryu Young-joo, with the collaboration of the author. Paik Nak-chung is one of Korea’s most incisive contemporary...

Gunn, Giles; Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl: America and the Misshaping of a New World Order, 2010
Abstract: The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic “misshaping” of geopolitics in the wake of...

Makhulu, Anne-Maria; Buggenhagen, Beth A.; Jackson, Stephen: Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities, 2010
Abstract: The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obvious and obfuscating. This collection by leading ethnographers moves beyond the...

Choi, Hyaeweol: Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways, 2009
Abstract: This book vividly traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. Hyaeweol Choi's shows that what it meant...

Martínez, Samuel: International Migration and Human Rights: The Global Repercussions of U.S. Policy, 2009
Abstract: While debate about immigration rages within the United States, people worldwide are moving across national borders with unprecedented intensity. In this timely volume, leading scholars in sociology, anthropology, history, and law examine how the actions...

Reed, Kristin: Crude Existence: The Politics of Oil in Northern Angola, 2009
Abstract: After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. But oil extraction--both on- and offshore--is a toxic remedy...

Ryang, Sonia; Lie, John: Diaspora without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan, 2009
Abstract: More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today—the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field...

Hale, Charles R.: Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship, 2008
Abstract: Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. Some advocate on behalf of the communities they study; others incorporate...

Lie, John: Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity, 2008
Abstract: This book traces the origins and transformations of a people—the Zainichi, migrants from the Korean peninsula to Japan and their descendants. Using a wide range of arguments and evidence—historical and comparative, political and social, literary...

Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui: Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation, 2008
Abstract: The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. Chinese Religiosities explores the often vexed relationship between...

Bergmann, Emilie L.; Herr, Richard: Mirrors and Echoes: Women's Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain, 2007
Abstract: Throughout Spain's tumultuous twentieth century, women writers produced a dazzling variety of novels, popular theater, and poetry. Their work both reflected and helped to transform women's gender, family, and public roles, carving out new space...

Brysk, Alison; Shafir, Gershon: National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism, 2007
Abstract: Human rights is all too often the first casualty of national insecurity. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights? This timely volume compares the lessons of the United States...

Hershatter, Gail: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century, 2007
Abstract: This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese...

McDonald, Andrew: Reinventing Britain: Constitutional Change under New Labour, 2007
Abstract: Contrary to popular myth, Britain does have a constitution, one that is uncodified and commanded little political interest for most of the twentieth century. In the late 1990s, Tony Blair's New Labour Government launched a...

Alexander, Ronelle; Zhobov, Vladimir: Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology, 2004

Leonard, David K.: Africa's Changing Markets for Health and Veterinary Services: The New Institutional Issues, 2003

al-Krenawi, Alean: The Struggle of Bedouin-Arab Women in a Transitional Society, 2002

Borrel, Monique J: Industrial Conflict, Mass Demonstrations, and Economic and Political Change in Postwar France: An Econometric Model, 2002
Abstract: This article is part of a forthcoming volume: "The Evolution of American and French Industrial Societies Since the 1850s" edited by Monique J. Borrel. The other chapters will be posted on this site as...

Delmas, Magali A.: Globalization of Environmental Management Standards: Barriers and Incentives in Europe and the United States, 2002

Ennaji, Moha: Migration, Development, and Gender in Morocco, 2002

Goodson, Larry: Anti-Modernist Islam: Understanding Taliban Treatment of Women, 2002

Haile, Zewdineh B.; Wadley, Ian L. G.: Common Goods and the Common Good: Transboundary Natural Resources, Principled Cooperation, and the Nile Basin Initiative, 2002
Abstract: Transboundary natural resources pose particular problems for the international community, and the community of African States presents no exception. The peaceful management and utilization of these resources is a universal aspiration, but the principles and...

Hoon, Parakh N.: Impersonal Markets and Personal Communities? Wildlife, Conservation, and Development in Botswana, 2002

Joseph, Suad: Gender, Citizenship, and Human Rights in the Middle East: Agendas for Research and Reflections on Lebanon, 2002

Khalaf, Mona: Women's Employment in Lebanon and its Impact on their Status, 2002

O'Neill, Kate: Globalization and Hazardous Waste Management: From Brown to Green?, 2002

Szanton, David L: The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines, 2002

Vogel, David; Kagan, Robert A.: Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies, 2002
Abstract: The research project which produced this volume of essays grew out of the central issue addressed in Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy by David Vogel, namely the impact of economic...

Zuhur, Sherifa: Voices and Silences: Problems in the Study of Women, Islamism, and Islamization, 2002
Abstract: This chapter provides an overview of the effects of research on women and gender in the Islamic world, as it relates to the study of Islamism (Muslim fundamentalism, or political Islam), and Islamization. ...