A Short History. Highly regarded for its concise clarification of the complexities of World War II, this book illuminates the origins, course, and long-range effects of the war. It provides a balanced account that analyzes both the European and Pacific theaters of operations and the connections between them. The Fifth Edition incorporates new material based on the latest scholarship, offering updated conclusions on key topics and expanded coverage throughout.
Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no tradition of democratic politics.
National Character and the Doon School. An interdisciplinary, engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence. By focusing on the Doon school, a famous boarding school in India, it unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens.
People Princes and Colonialism. Based on rarely used archival material, this book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states military contribution or the mechanisms for controlling or integrating the states.
An intervention in one of the most fundamental debates confronting the social science and humanities, namely how to understand global and local historical processes as interconnected developments affecting human actors.
Moral Responsibility in the Media. Journalistic Ethics Moral Responsibility in the Media examines the moral rights and responsibilities of journalists to provide what Dale Jacquette calls truth telling in the public interest. With 31 case studies from contemporary journalistic practice, the book demonstrates the immediate practical implications of ethics for working journalists as well as for those who read or watch the news. This case-study approach is paired with a theoretical grounding, and issues include freedom of the press, censorship and withholding sensitive information for the greater public
This Companion is the ideal reference guide for students and teachers of Renaissance Europe. It fills a gap for anauthoritative but accessible resource on political, religious, social, economic as well as cultural developments in this crucial period. There is also detailed coverage of Italy, the Low Countries, France and all the Courts of Europe. Information is provided on all the major topics including the church, war and diplomacy, civic life, learning and letters, printing, the economy, science and technology, the arts, Europe and the wider world. Integrated into the text are several city plans, maps and genealogical tables.
Continuing Explorations. Using a unique oldnew treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the classical age to the twentieth century. Chapters share the approach to Southeast Asian history and historiography namely, giving agency to Southeast Asia in all research, analysis, writing, and interpretation.
Modernity Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny. This major new postcolonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perception of Calcutta. It explores the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city as its residents negotiated the idea of being modern.
From Prehistory to History. This comprehensive and absorbing book traces the cultural history of Southeast Asia from prehistoric especially Neolithic, Bronze-Iron age times through to the major Hindu and Buddhist civilisations, to around AD 1300.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives. This book provides a comprehensive examination of environmental history in East Asia, ranging temporally from the Ming dynasty to the 21st Century and spatially across China, Japan and Taiwan.nbspSplit into four parts, the chapters cover a wide range of fascinating topics, comparing environmental thought and policy in the East and West, the transformation of the landscape, land resource utilization and impact of agriculture and disasters and diseases across the region.
This work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up to date findings in all branches of the social sciences at a formative time and during a period of decisive historical discovery.
Taking as example the increasingly politicised nature of contemporary poetry, the author clearly and succinctly presents an account of the monologues growing popularity over the past twenty years.
Poetry Poets and Politics. In a comprehensive and theoretically astute study, Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its images as a moralised form of romantic verse and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.
First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor amp Francis, an informa company.
An Anthology of Sources and Documents. This anthology introduces students of nineteenth-century literary and cultural history to the main areas of intellectual debate in the Victorian period.
Contour of Freedom. This book is a balanced account of the complex processes that finally culminated in the fragmentation of South Asia following decolonization.
The Middle East in Modern World History focuses on the history of this region over the past 200 years. It examines how global trends during this period shaped the Middle East and how these trends were affected by the regions development. Three trends from the past two centuries are highlighted The region as a strategic conduit between East and WestThe development of the regions natural resources, especially oilThe impact of a rapidly globalizing world economy on the Middle East
First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essaysnbspoffering a nbspre-evaluation ofnbspVictorian poetry in the light of early 20th Century criticism.nbsp
Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that there are also many negative aspects of scientific innovation. Insightful and controversial in equal measure, Russell argues that science offers the world greater well-being than it has ever known, on the condition that prosperity is dispersed power is diffused by means of a single, world government birth rates do not become too high and war is abolished. Russell acknowledges that is a tall order, but remains essentially optimistic. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by Tim Sluckin.
Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period. The First Maya Civilization discusses the most recent advances in our knowledge of the Preclassic Maya and the emergence of their rainforest civilization, with new data on settlement, political organization, architecture, iconography and epigraphy supporting a contemporary theoretical perspective that challenges prior assumptions.
An Anthology of Sources and Documents. This comprehensive anthology collects together primary texts and documents relevant to the literature, culture, and intellectual life in England between 1550 and 1660.
This invaluable introduction for students examines the Victorian novel in depth, tracing its form and also placing it in its historical context. Key novelists of the period are discussed, including Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray and the Brontes.
First published in 1954, this title is a companion to The Anatomy of Poetry as a literary guide for the student reader. Writing that students generally find it more challenging to analyse a passage of prose than a piece of poetry, Marjorie Boulton takes a systematic approach to the technical elements of prose, considering form, vocabulary, rhythm and the application of historical context.
The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development. In this fascinating book, Rigg charts the development of Southeast Asia, examining the former non-market economies of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma alongside the more established market economies of the region.
Space and Society. This book focuses on eight spatial scales body, home, community, institutions, the street, the city, rural and nation. Each of these spaces represents the intersection of a range of connections, interrelations and movements of different people who have very different ways of participating in, understanding or belonging to them. Each chapter therefore explores how social identities gender, race, class, sexuality and relations are constructed in, and through these spaces, and how the meanings and uses of these spaces are contested by their different occupants. Questions of homogeneity and difference, control and
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