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This collection of documents covers the rise to power of the Chinese communist movement. They show how the Chinese Communist Party interpreted the revolution, how it devised policies to meet changing circumstances and how these policies were communicated to party members and public.

This guide introduces case studies in the Asian social sciences into the general education curricula of American colleges and universities. The contents encompass the broadest possible range of this diverse subject.

Using data from the Williamsburg Charter surveys, this book provides a portrait of public attitudes on church-state issues. It examines the social, religious and political sources of differences on issues, making comparisons among Protestants, Catholics, Jews and non-denominational others.

Designed for classroom use, this book develops a framework for the comparative analysis of political ideologies and examines the most prominent political ideologies of modern time. This revised edition has been enlarged to include feminism and environmentalism.

A history of the fabled islands of Southeast Asia from 300 BC, by which time their inhabitants had learned to sail the monsoon winds, to AD 1528, when Islam became dominant in the region.

This text addresses whether and how religion and religious institutions affect American politics. For some time, analysts have argued that the conflicts of the New Deal era rendered cultural differences trivial and placed economic interests at the top of the political agenda.

The 1980s witnessed the ascendancy of Russian women in multiple spheres of artistic creation, including literature, film, and painting. In a treatment of contemporary Russian women's creativity, this text approaches women's texts, films, and canvasses from a range of perspectives.

This work discusses the impact and contemporary relevance of the work of Thorstein Veblen, as well as the source of his ideas. It suggests that he was one of the first modern sociologists of consumption whose analysis of contemporary display and fashion anticipated later theories and research.

This text presents an analysis of how international direct investment since World War II has played an important role in the process by which industrial countries generate technology and productivity growth. It covers the complex relations between the US and Japan since 1945.

In this satirical novel, set in Japanese-occupied Korea, Master Yun, embodying the traditional ambitions of a standard Korean paterfamilias, by being projected fast forward into a modern urban environment, caricatures the increasing irrelevance of Confucian mores to 20th-century social reality.

An anthropological study of a major national political party - one which dominated Israeli politics for nearly five decades and was returned to office in summer 1992. The analysis focuses on the relationship between culture and politics to explain the crucial role the Labour Party has played.

A collection of interviews with 26 writers of China's "zhiqing" generation, relatively young artists who participated in the Cultural Revolution. It aims to provide a perspective on the devastating political history of China over the past 20 years through the eyes of its keenest observers.

An unabashed liberal democrat, the author argues that there are a number of myths and half-truths about American politics that need to be properly understood if progressives and the Democratic party are to win the Presidency and govern effectively.

This comprehensive work on security in the English-speaking Caribbean, offers information about the history, politics, economics and geography of the entire region. The author examines security problems in the region as a geopolitical unit, not on a selective case-study basis, as is usually done.

An analysis of the declining trend in international competitiveness of US industry, indentifying three groups of countries that account for most of the trade deficit: Germany and Japan, the East Asian NICs and the Latin American debtors. For each case, underlying structural problems are explored.

Argues that America must reform its economic and social policies and institutions to reverse the weakening of its industrial leadership, the erosion of living standards and escalating social problems. Topics include public investment, urban poverty, health care and the environment.

Argues that the debate about transportation and land-use planning in the United States has been distorted by a myth - the myth that urban sprawl is the result of a free market. This title confronts the free market myth by pointing out that land development is already one of the most regulated sectors of the US economy.

Provides a perspective by a prominent economist on the problems of debt, recession, and recovery in the 1930s as compared with the 1990s.

Rousseas holds a Post-Keynesian view of an elastic and endogenous money supply. His main theme stresses the role of innovation in the financial sector of the US economy and its implications for control of the money supply and credit, as well as the larger issue of macroeconomic policy.

Explores the foundation of European management philosophy at a time when the Cold War has ended and Western capitalism has triumphed. The book reflects on the role of business and management that has emerged in Western capitalism and searches for the roots of moral philosophy.

In "The Geography of Survival" Wolfson speaks out about the world's choice to embrace the cause of our collective survival or to let desertisation, pollution, disaster, famine, epidemic, and war work their own solution.

This study of crime and justice is motivated primarily by the idea that individual behaviour is influenced both by self-interest and by conscience, or by a sense of community responsibility.

This work examines the relationship between the theory of wealth and the theory of power. It examines various theories of class, state and power either explicitly or implicitly avowed in the diverse social science disciplines of politics, economics and sociology.

These essays address the industrial, commercial, urban and regional reforms of China's planned economy during the 1980s. The emphasis is on the dominating institutional and bureaucratic presence of the state even as it sought to loosen the pre-1979 vertically structured command system.

Moving from the adoption of the "post-Stalin" Constitution of 1977 through its subsequent implementation under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko to the radical legal "restructuring" of the Gorbachev era, the author traces the gradual evolution of a nascent constitutionalism in the former USSR.

A collection of original studies of the Soviet executive under Gorbachev. Topics covered include the major ministries, the presidency, the cabinet, and questions of presidential-ministerial, presidential-presidential, legislative-executive, and party-state relations.

This exploration of the Jewish political tradition elucidates a long, rich and diverse experience of both sovereignty and dispersed statelessness, holding insights for anyone interested in comparative and ethnic politics, Jewish history, and the prehistory of contemporary Israeli politics.