Political scandals, governmental instability and the poison-gas attack in central Tokyo show that Japan is passing through a serious social crisis. It affects virtually every social unit: family, school, company, political parties, religions and the nation.
This is an important critical assessment of Labour's periods of renewal and modernisation. These events are considered as attempts to resolve traditional problems facing the Labour Party, the abiding legacy and importance of these fundamental problems is assessed.
This book examines the nature of international politics in the twentieth century. The possible impact of three powerful, simultaneous and intersecting revolutions on international relations and the future of NATO is assessed in relation to the twenty-first century.
The Japanese economy has shown paradoxical changes. At the zenith of the Japanese model of company system, a huge bubble swelled, so as to prepare a prolonged... Læs mere
The book argues that as the last phase of colonial modernisation of developing states has finished insurgencies increasingly threaten the cohesion of less developed states in a global order in which superpower patronage has largely ended.
An study of the theory and politics of representation in narrative film. Questioning current accounts of cinema's pleasures for men and women, this text... Læs mere
The novel of adultery is a nineteenth-century form about the experience of women, produced almost exclusively by men. The opening chapter defines the terms 'adultery' and 'novel of adultery', and discusses how the form arose in Continental Europe, but failed to appear in Britain.
In The Demise of Marxism-Leninism in Russia , distinguished specialists chart the rise of new thinking on the Soviet system and the decline and fall of Marxism-Leninism in the late Soviet period.
This book explores the growing importance of prisons, both lay and ecclesiastical, in western Europe between 1000 and 1300. It discusses conditions within prisons, the means of release open to some captives, and writing in or about prison.
'...a book which should be read by all students contemplating enrolment for a university course in modern English or European literary studies.' - Roy... Læs mere
This book provides a critique of the discipline of international relations from a feminist perspective. The critique is secondly developed through the application of... Læs mere
To preserve social order the state must administer civil society, with a threefold purpose - the fashioning of the market, the constitution of... Læs mere