Tabla de Contenidos: “…Short stories of the southern seas: the island as collective in the works of Louis Becke / Jennifer Fuller -- III Indigenous/Diasporic -- 13. …”

“…The prevalent view that state-formation began in the maritime regions of Southeast Asia with trade and commerce rather than in the interior with agriculture must now be reassessed. …”

“…Including studies from over 30 countries distributed across Africa, North America, South America, Asia and Europe; the collection of articles covers a diverse range of research backgrounds and situations. …”

“…El cristianismo se inició con las prédicas de San Pablo en Asia Menor. Con el tiempo, se fue adaptando a las oportunidades que ofrecía el momento histórico, empezando por soltar el lastre del judaísmo y del Apocalipsis, para adquirir las formas externas de la liturgia del Imperio Romano y, más tarde, para adecuarse a las formas sociopolíticas del mundo occidental…”

“…En este libro se recogen las ideas fundamentales de Noam Chomsky, donde replantea de raíz los acontecimientos más cruciales de las últimas tres décadas, desde las intervenciones exteriores de los Estados Unidos en Europa, Asia, América Latina y Oriente Medio hasta la persistencia de la pobreza, el fanatismo religioso, el desmantelamiento del estado del bienestar, la lucha de los medios de comunicación de masas contra el activismo político o el control ideológico en la enseñanza de las ciencias y las humanidades. …”

“…Providing an important understanding of the motivations, meanings, and consequences of violence, the book is of interest to students and scholars of South Asia, Political Science, Trauma Studies and War Studies"--…”
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“…Estos cambios se abordan en diversos capítulos sobre política internacional,cuyos resortes, antes puramente europeos, pasarán a ser mundiales: la difusión de la tecnología y de las ideas políticas de Occidente a los países subdesarrollados de África y Asia; el impacto de la ideología marxista; los problemas sociológicos y políticos de una sociedad de masas; la repercusión de la nueva civilización tecnológica sobre el arte y otras tendencias…”

“…Al pensar en la carrera por conocer los secretos del cerebro humano que han emprendido los EE.UU., Europa y Asia, por simular artificialmente su funcionamiento y poder desde ahí fabricar artilugios cada vez más sofisticados, es inevitable preguntarse hacia dónde estamos yendo. …”

“…Written by a team of world-leading physicians from North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, this book is a 'must have' reference for any doctor, physical therapist, or medical professional working in sport"--…”

“…Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping these into a critical engagement with theorists of the nation such as Fredric Jameson and Partha Chatterjee. …”

“…This collection brings together authors from Europe and Asia with a specific contribution to the knowledge in regards to theoretical and applied statistics…”

“…The current book contains studies from scientists and researchers around the world from North America to Europe and from Asia to Australia…”

“…Seventy plates of maps, accompanied with commentary, cover significant topics such as: Thailand’s relation to the world-system, its place in Eastern Asia, and its population, infrastructure, urban network, production, income, education, intra-regional dynamics. …”

“…Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptiosn of Self and Other and denied the totally transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenaciously maintaining connectios with Central and West Asia as well as some cultural differences from their non-Muslim neighbors.Familiar Strangers narrates a history of the Muslims of northwest China, at the intersection of the frontiers of the Mongolian-Manchu, Tibetan, Turkic, and Chinese cultural regions. …”

“…Contributions address issues such as the macro-level shift of shipping’s centre of gravity from Europe to Asia, the political and legal frameworks within which it developed, the strategies and performance of both successful and unsuccessful firms, and the links between the shipping industry and the wider economy and society. …”

“…The book engages current historiographies and revindicates the need to take the concept of composite monarchies as a point of departure in order to understand the period’s economic and social developments, analysing the institutions and societies resulting from contact with Iberian peoples in America and Asia. The outcome is a study that nuances and contests an excessively-negative yet prevalent image of the Iberian societies, explores the difficult relationship between empires and globalization and opens paths for comparisons to other imperial formations…”

“…These comprise languages from Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region, including Indonesian sign language varieties, which are rarely studied. …”

“…Breaching the divide between different area studies, the book provides nine case studies covering the area between the eastern edge of Asia and Eastern Europe, including the former Russian, Ottoman, Qing, and Japanese Empires as well as their successor states. …”

“…The dive into ethnographies from across Europe, the US, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa demolishes hackneyed geo-political categories and culminates in a new comparative theory about the contradictions in everyday political work. …”

“…Collectively, the 71 cases span a vast geographic range (South America, Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Far East) and include examples of governments that attempted to fight the tide of history -- that is, to quell an anticolonial rebellion or uprisings against apartheid…”