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Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

This book analyses the creation and dissemination of discourse in China while examining how its media and the people interact and communicate with the rest of the world. It explores the interplay between language meanings social practices culture and politics in the processes of discourse generation. The book critically studies intercultural communication and Chinese discourse models at the national institutional and individual levels and the different modes of interaction between China and the world. With the help of several case studies the book analyses reports from the People’s Daily interpersonal meaning in promotional videos and advertisements in China rhetoric in the editorials of China Daily and the representation by international media like The Associated Press and The New York Times to explore differences between Chinese and the Western media reporting the same event. It also looks at the complex models through which the Chinese people—both as individuals and as a collective—communicate with and gain an understanding of the rest of the world. Rich in empirical case studies this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Chinese Studies communication studies media and cultural studies international relations and political communication. | Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

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American Isolationism Between the World Wars The Search for a Nation's Identity

American Isolationism Between the World Wars The Search for a Nation's Identity

American Isolationism Between the World Wars: The Search for a Nation's Identity examines the theory of isolationism in America between the world wars arguing that it is an ideal that has dominated the Republic since its founding. During the interwar period isolationists could be found among Republicans and Democrats Catholics and Protestants pacifists and militarists rich and poor. While the dominant historical assessment of isolationism — that it was provincial and short-sighted — will be examined this book argues that American isolationism between 1919 and the mid-1930s was a rational foreign policy simply because the European reversion back to politics as usual insured that the continent would remain unstable. Drawing on a wide range of newspaper and journal articles biographies congressional hearings personal papers and numerous secondary sources Kenneth D. Rose suggests the time has come for a paradigm shift in how American isolationism is viewed. The text also offers a reflection on isolationism since the end of World War II particularly the nature of isolationism during the Trump era. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U. S. Foreign Relations and twentieth-century American history. | American Isolationism Between the World Wars The Search for a Nation's Identity

GBP 36.99
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Studying Islam in the Arab World The Rupture Between Religion and the Social Sciences

Studying Islam in the Arab World The Rupture Between Religion and the Social Sciences

Addressing the rupture between religious and social sciences in Arab universities this book provides a critical assessment of the curricula of Shariah and Islamic Studies departments across the Arab World arguing for increased interdisciplinary dialogue. Based on over 250 interviews with university students and teachers this study is the sum of five years of field research observing the curricula and teaching styles of colleges in the Shariah sciences. The author provides critical insight into these curricula by focusing on case studies in Lebanon and Jordan Morocco Kuwait and Qatar and in Malaysia. In doing so the book aims to answer the following questions: What is the aim of religious education? Does it aim to create people who specialize solely in religious affairs or does it aim to form the student according to a comprehensive human framework? What is the nature of the relationship between the social sciences and the Shariah sciences? The book concludes by examining three pioneering institutions which have introduced alternative curricula in teaching Shariah studies. The book has wide geographic and ideological coverage and will appeal to university students academics and policy analysts working across a range of disciplines including the philosophy of knowledge Islamic law and education and sociology. | Studying Islam in the Arab World The Rupture Between Religion and the Social Sciences

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Communications and the 'Third World'

Communications and the 'Third World'

Originally published in 1971. An introduction to the rapidly-changing field of modern communications at the time this book brings together a wide range of literature from Africa Asia and Latin America. It presents a critical revaluation of the dominant theoretical perspectives which informed Third World communications studies and it challenges popular and often greatly misinformed perceptions of the nature and the uniformity of current Third World communications. The author gives an account of the significant shifts in the theoretical orientation of cultural analysis in Third World societies explaining the vast differences between these societies in their levels of industrialization communications and cultural production and their ability to utilize modern mass communications and business-oriented technologies. He reveals that the differences can sometimes be greater than those between advanced capitalist and Third World countries and comes to reject the usefulness of the concept of Third World in understanding the nature of communications systems in different national societies. | Communications and the 'Third World'

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Theater and World The Problematics of Shakespeare's History

Theater and World The Problematics of Shakespeare's History

First published in 1992 Theater and World is a detailed exploration of Shakespeare’s representation of history and how it affects the relation between theatre and world. The book focuses primarily on the Second Tetralogy (Richard II Henry IV Part I Henry IV Part II and Henry V) and includes a wealth of analysis and interpretation of the plays. In doing so it explores a wide range of topics including the relation between literary and theatrical representations and the world; the nature of illusion and reality; genre; the connection between history and fiction (especially plays); historiography and literary criticism or theory; poetry and philosophy; and irony both rhetorical and philosophical. Theater and World continues to have lasting relevance for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare’s words and his representation of history in particular. | Theater and World The Problematics of Shakespeare's History

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Global Governance and Interaction between International Institutions Eurasian International Organizations in the World Politics and Economy

Global Governance and Interaction between International Institutions Eurasian International Organizations in the World Politics and Economy

This book builds on theory of authoritarian regionalism and is the first attempt to analyse the interaction of authoritarian regional organizations in Eurasia with their global and regional counterparts (NATO EU WTO IMF etc. ). It analyses three decades of the development of post-Soviet regional organizations prior to the tectonic geopolitical and security changes of 2022. Eurasian regional organizations created by Russia have been frequently perceived as attempts to establish ‘alternatives’ to the global governance institutions and to compete with other regional organizations like for example the European Union (EU). They are seen as a pronounced example of ‘authoritarian regionalism’ i. e. regional organizations established by non-democracies. The way they interact with global and regional institutions has however remained understudied. This book aims to close this gap. It places Eurasia within a global context and considers similar trends world-wide as well as outlines the agenda for future studies of global versus regional governance. The book sheds light on long-term strategies of Russia in Eurasia in global economy and in world politics and on the interaction between Russia and other post-Soviet states. With an extended introduction and conclusion this book is an insightful resource for scholars; advanced students; and researchers of politics international relations and Eurasian area-studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Post-Communist Economies. | Global Governance and Interaction between International Institutions Eurasian International Organizations in the World Politics and Economy

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Between Constantinople the Papacy and the Caliphate The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World 634-969

Between Constantinople the Papacy and the Caliphate The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World 634-969

This volume examines the Melkite church from the Arab invasion of Syria in 634 until 969. The Melkite Patriarchates were established in Antioch Jerusalem and Alexandria and following the Arab campaigns in Syria and Egypt they all came under the new Muslim state. Over the next decades the Melkite church underwent a process of gradual marginalization moving from the privileged position of the state confession to becoming one of the religious minorities of the Caliphate. This transition took place in the context of theological and political interactions with the Byzantine Empire the Patriarchate of Constantinople the Papacy and over time with the reborn Roman Empire in the West. Exploring the various processes within the Melkite church this volume also examines Caliphate–Byzantine interactions the cultural and religious influences of Constantinople the synthesis of Greek Arab and Syriac elements the process of Arabization of communities and Melkite relations with distant Rome. | Between Constantinople the Papacy and the Caliphate The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World 634-969

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Revival: Between the Wars (1948)

Revival: Between the Wars (1948)

In Between The Wars Mr Somervell examines those twenty-one years of uneasy peace which elapsed between the First and Second World Wars and analyses the gradual deterioration in international relations which marked the period. The victorious all-powerful Allies of 1919 by founding the League of Nations with its prospects of open diplomacy and its machinery for negotiation hoped to set up new standards of behaviour between sovereign states and eliminated war as a method of settling disputes. How were these good intentions thwarted? Why did a second catastrophe engulf Europe in 1939? Mr Somervell ranges widely over world events of the inter-war years in his search for answers to these questions. He shows how in most countries democracy that form of Government which the creators of the Versailles Treaty fervently hoped to secure in the world seldom imposed a rational will on its statesmen; on the contrary public opinion inclined to the extremes of apathy and hysteria. He also demonstrates how the discoverers of misapplied science offered tempting new weapons to fanatical dictators avid for world power. We have just lived through the war that resulted from that epoch of muddle and drift; now is the moment for us to examine it critically as a chapter of history. Mr Somervill offers us valuable help in his detached and lucid survey. | Revival: Between the Wars (1948)

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The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History

The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History

The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History is a comprehensive and engaging volume combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields. In addition to the 27 essays the Companion includes general introductions from two of the leading scholars of history and literature David Damrosch and Patrick Manning as well as personal testimonies from artists working in the area and editorials asking provocative questions. The volume includes sections on:People – with essays looking at World Literature Intellectual Commerce Religion language and war and Indigenous ethnographyNetworks and methods – examining maps geography morality and the crises of world literatureTransformations – including essays on race colonialism and the non-humanInterdisciplinary and groundbreaking this volume brings to light various ways in which scholars of literature and history analyse assimilate or reveal the intellectual heritage of the past at the same moment as they try consciously to deal with an unending amount of new information and an awareness of global connections and discrepancies. Including work from leading academics in the field as well as newer voices the Companion is ideal for students and scholars alike.

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The Atlantic World

The Atlantic World

As the meeting point between Europe colonial America and Africa the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters all written by experts in the field The Atlantic World takes up these debates and gathers together key original scholarship to provide an authoritative survey of this increasingly popular area of world history. The book takes a thematic approach to topics including exploration migration and cultural encounters. In the first chapters scholars examine the interactions between groups which converged in the Atlantic world such as slaves European migrants and Native Americans. The volume then considers questions such as finance money and commerce in the Atlantic world as well as warfare government and religion. The collection closes with chapters examining how ideas circulated across and around the Atlantic and beyond. It presents the Atlantic as a shared space in which commodities and ideas were exchanged and traded and examines the impact that these exchanges had on both people and places. Including an introductory essay from the editors which defines the field and lavishly illustrated with paintings drawings and maps this accessible volume is invaluable reading for all students and scholars of this broad sweep of world history.

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Cooperatives and the World of Work

Cooperatives and the World of Work

As the world of work and jobs is more uncertain than ever because of various trends impacting it including the rise of robotics and the gig economy Cooperatives and the World of Work furthers the debate on the future of work sustainable development and the social and solidarity economy of which cooperatives are a fundamental component. Throughout the book the authors who are experts in their respective fields do not limit themselves to praising the advantages of the cooperative model. Rather they challenge the narrow understanding of cooperatives as a mere business model and raise debate on the more fundamental role that cooperatives play in responding to social changes and in changing society itself. The book is unique in tracing the historical connection between cooperatives and the world of work since the end of the First World War and the recent shifts and restructuring in enterprise and the workplace. It presents a redefinition of the very concept of work focusing on organizational innovation. This book is published in recognition of 100 years of the International Labour Organization and gathers together research from leading experts who were brought together at an event co-hosted by the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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Modern France and the World

Modern France and the World

Modern France and the World provides an engaging global history of the key events of modern France and its empire. It moves beyond the traditional political narrative of the development of the French Republican nation-state to offer both national and international perspectives of its evolution. The volume illustrates the integral exchanges that have taken place between France and the modern world from global trade in the eighteenth century to the impact of postcolonial immigration and globalization on French identity and on France’s diverse population. It includes the voices of women colonized populations and those who both embraced and challenged the spread of French ideas and values around the globe. Drawing on methodologies of social cultural and gender history this textbook integrates a wide range of analytical tools to entice readers to engage more deeply in France’s dynamic global history. By presenting the history of France and its global engagements from the mid-seventeenth century to the present this volume is an essential resource for all students who study the history politics and culture of modern France.

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The Arthurian World

The Arthurian World

This collection provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the world of Arthur by looking beyond the canonical texts and themes taking instead a transversal perspective on the Arthurian narrative. Together its thirty-four chapters explore the continuities that make the material recognizable from one century to another as well as transformations specific to particular times and places revealing the astonishing variety of adaptations that have made the Arthurian story popular in large parts of the world. Divided into four parts—The World of Arthur in the British Isles The European World of Arthur The Material World of Arthur and The Transversal World of Arthur — the volume tracks the legend’s movement across temporal geographical and material boundaries. Broadly chronological each part views the unfolding Arthurian story through its own lens while temporal and geographical overlaps between the sections underscore the proximity of these developments in the legend’s history. Ranging from early Latin chronicles and Welsh poetry to twenty-first century anime and political conspiracies this comprehensive and illuminating book will be of interest to anyone researching Arthurian literature or tracing the evolution of medievalism through literature the visual arts and popular culture. | The Arthurian World

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Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

The 1980s saw an alarming revival of protectionism among Western countries as a result of a decade of persistent economic crises slow growth industrial decline and rising unemployment. The two major actors the US and the European Community between them bore the major responsibility for the breakdown of the liberal world trading system. Protection in the 1970s and 1980s took the form of replacing free international markets by bilateral agreements. This book first published in 1986 examines the European Community’s Generalized System of Preferences whereby the manufactured exports of developing nations would have duty-free access to the markets of the EEC and the consequences to this System of the new protectionism. | Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

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The Impossibility of Sex Stories of the Intimate Relationship between Therapist and Client

The Impossibility of Sex Stories of the Intimate Relationship between Therapist and Client

In these intriguing accounts The author the celebrated author of Fat is a Feminist Issue presents us with six imaginary clinical cases including Adam the serial seducer; Belle the compulsive liar; and Joanne the self-mutilator. Through them the author presents an intriguing look into the hidden world of the consulting room. She demonstra | The Impossibility of Sex Stories of the Intimate Relationship between Therapist and Client

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Intelligence on the Frontier Between State and Civil Society

Intelligence on the Frontier Between State and Civil Society

Intelligence on the Frontier Between State and Civil Society shows how today’s intelligence practices constantly contest the frontiers between normal politics and security politics and between civil society and the state. Today’s intelligence services face the difficult task of having to manage the uncertainties associated with new threats by inviting civil actors in to help while also upholding their own institutional authority and responsibility to act in the interest of the nation. This volume examines three different perspectives: Managerial practices of intelligence collection and communication; the increased use of new forms of data (i. e. of social media information); and the expansion of intelligence practices into new areas of concern for example cybersecurity and the policing of (mis-)information. This book accurately addresses these three topics and all chapters shine more light on the inclusion and exclusion of civil society in the secret world of intelligence. By scrutinizing how intelligence services balance the inclusion of civil society in security tasks with the need to uphold their institutional authority Intelligence on the Frontier Between State and Civil Society will be of great interest to scholars of Security Studies and Intelligence Studies. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Intelligence and National Security.

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The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

Originally published in 1982 The Shaman and the Magician draws on the author’s wide experience of occultism western magic and anthropological knowledge of shamanism to explore the interesting parallels between traditional shamanism and the more visionary aspects of magic in modern western society. In both cases as the author shows the magician encounters profound god-energies of the spirit and it is up to the individual to interpret these experiences in psychological or mythological terms. The book demonstrates that both shamanism and magic offer techniques of approaching the visionary sources of our culture. | The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

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The World That Trade Created Society Culture and the World Economy 1400 to the Present

The World That Trade Created Society Culture and the World Economy 1400 to the Present

The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief highly readable vignettes filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted the authors uncover the deep historical roots of economic globalization. Covering over seven hundred years of history this book now in its fourth edition takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates to the building of corporations and migration to the New World. The chapters are grouped thematically each featuring an introductory essay designed to synthesize and elaborate on key themes both familiar and unfamiliar. It includes ten new essays on topics ranging from the early modern ivory and slave trades across the Indian Ocean to the ways in which the availability of new consumer goods helped change work habits in both Europe and East Asia and from the history of chewing gum to that of rare earth metals. The introductory essays for each chapter the overall introduction and epilogue and several of the essays have also been revised and updated. The World That Trade Created continues to be a key resource for anyone teaching world history world civilization and the history of international trade. | The World That Trade Created Society Culture and the World Economy 1400 to the Present

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Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the present discourse on gender and violence discovering new ways to address the complexities encountered in academic research on the topic. Through the introduction of a variety of uncommonly discussed geopolitical sites and dynamics the book redefines the critical picture of gender violence in the age of globalization adopting diverse methodological approaches and various disciplinary praxes in its investigation of the question of violence against women across the globe. With an international team of contributors comprising both scholars and activists this volume bridges the gap between academic and activist perspectives on gender violence. As such it will be of interest to anyone conducting research in the areas of gender and sexuality human rights cultural studies political science history postcolonialism and colonialism sociology anthropology philosophy and religion. | Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

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The World of The Walking Dead

The World of The Walking Dead

An accessible introduction to the world of The Walking Dead this book looks across platforms and analytical frameworks to characterize the fictional world of The Walking Dead and how its audiences make use of it. From comics and television to social media apps and mobile games utilizing concepts derived from literary studies media studies history anthropology and religious studies Matthew Freeman examines the functions and affordances of new digital platforms. In doing so he establishes a new transdisciplinary framework for analyzing imaginary worlds across multiple media platforms bolstering the critical arena of world-building studies by providing a greater array of vocabulary concepts and approaches. The World of The Walking Dead is an engaging exploration of stories their platforms and their reception ideal for students and scholars of world-building film and TV studies new media and everything in-between.

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The Politics of Silence Voice and the In-Between Exploring Gender Race and Insecurity from the Margins

The Politics of Silence Voice and the In-Between Exploring Gender Race and Insecurity from the Margins

The Politics of Silence Voice and the In-Between: Exploring Gender Race and Insecurity from the Margins seeks to dismantle the deficit discourses generated through research about people as agency-less and by extension objects of study. The book argues that regardless of marginalisation people create spaces of liminality where they seek control over their lives by navigating the structures that exclude them. Challenging the false binary of silence as violence and voice as power the book introduces the idea of an in-between ‘liminal space’ which is created by people to navigate conditions of oppression and move towards a politically stable and inclusive world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies international development peace and conflict studies politics and international relations sociology and media studies. It will be an important resource for courses incorporating gender feminist and postcolonial perspectives. | The Politics of Silence Voice and the In-Between Exploring Gender Race and Insecurity from the Margins

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Communication and the First World War

Communication and the First World War

Despite the voluminous historical literature on the First World War a volume devoted to the theme of communication has yet to appear. From the communication of war aims and objectives to the communication of war call-up and war experience and knowledge this volume fills the gap in the market including the work of both established and newly emerging scholars working on the First World War across the globe. The volume includes chapters that focus on the experience of belligerent and also neutral powers thus providing a genuinely representative dimension to the subject. | Communication and the First World War

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India in the World 1500 to the Present

India in the World 1500 to the Present

If we look back at world history in the past five hundred years it is evident that Indian ideas peoples and goods helped drive world connections. From the quest to reach the Indies that drove Iberian rulers to fund costly expeditions that ultimately connected the Old World with the Americas to Gandhi’s creed of non-violence that created transnational resistance movements India has been crucial to world history. In what ways have the movement of goods people and ideas from India served to connect the world? Conversely how has India’s global history shaped the many boundaries and inequalities that have divided the world despite—and at times because of—the transnational connections often lumped together under the aegis of globalization? Through its emphasis on both linkages and boundaries India in the World examines the range of connections between India and the world in a truly global perspective. | India in the World 1500 to the Present

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