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  • Lost Modernities

    China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History

    by Alexander Woodside ...
    Series Book 9 - The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
    In Lost Modernities Alexander Woodside offers a probing revisionist overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations remarkable for their transparent procedures.The quest ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

    by Arif Dirlik, Alexander Woodside, Roxann Prazniak ...
    This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these changes for human welfare globally. The book gives special attention to recent economic development and urbanization in the People s Republic of China which have had a major impact on contemporary transformations globally. Case studies from ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • A House Divided

    Catholics, Socialists, and Flemish Nationalists in Nineteenth-Century Belgium

    by Carl Strikwerda, Xiangming Chen, Bruce Cumings, Gary Gereffi, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Donald M. Nonini, Neferti Xina M. Tadiar, Rob Wilson, Meredith Woo-Cumings, Alexander Woodside ...
    The first book to explore the historical development of Belgian politics, this groundbreaking study of the rivalry between Catholicism, Socialism and nationalism is essential reading for anyone interested in Europe before World War I. ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • What Is in a Rim?

    Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea

    by Glenn Alcalay, Gary Gereffi, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Donald M. Nonini, Neferti Xina M. Tadiar, Rob Wilson, Meredith Woo-Cumings, Alexander Woodside, Arif Dirlik, Xiangming Chen, Bruce Cumings ...
    Series series Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives
    This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as 'Asia Pacific' and 'Pacific Rim.' Clarifying the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions_including the human costs and consequences_that underlie the much-celebrated economic ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900

    Edited by Benjamin A. Elman, Alexander Woodside ...
    Series Book 19 - Studies on China
    This comprehensive volume integrates the history of late imperial China with the history of education over three centuries, revealing the significance of education in Chinese social, political, and intellectual life. A collaboration between social and intellectual historians, these fifteen essays provide the most wide-ranging study in English on China's education in the centuries before the modern ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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  • Post-Western World

    How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order

    by Oliver Stuenkel ...
    With the United States' superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging powers like India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting. But what does this mean for the future of the international order? Will China dominate the 21st Century? Will the so-called BRICS prove to be a disruptive force in global affairs? Are we headed ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Good Governance in the Era of Global Neoliberalism

    Conflict and Depolitization in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa

    Edited by Jolle Demmers, Alex E. Fernández Jilberto, Barbara Hogenboom ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the microscope and examines the impact of neoliberal governance in a wide range of countries and territories, ... Read more

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  • Sinicization and the Rise of China

    Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West

    Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • State-Directed Development

    Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery

    by Atul Kohli ...
    Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and intervention aimed at promoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed in detail - South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria - over the twentieth century. The states in these countries varied ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Global Migration and Development

    Edited by Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, the World Bank, United Nations Commissions and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Democracy in East Asia

    A New Century

    Edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu ...
    Series series A Journal of Democracy Book
    Democratization scholars believe that the next regional wave of transitions to democracy may unfold in East and Southeast Asia.In their introduction to the 1998 edition of Democracy in East Asia, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner predicted that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of political regimes, economies, and religions, would likely be the most critical arena in the global struggle ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Globalization and Development in East Asia

    Edited by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Jongtae Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies
    East Asia is widely regarded as the main "winner" in contemporary globalization, unscathed by the economic crisis of 2008, with its leading new industrializing nations and emerging economies. While 20th-century globalization was mainly led by the West, the 21st century is ushering in different dynamics. The re-emergence of Asia involves alternative visions of the world and different perspectives ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD