Attitudes toward food and commensality constituted a central fiber in the social, religious, and political fabric of ancient Chinese society.
The climate policy debate has been dominated by economic estimates of the costs of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the distribution of 'climate rights' is crucial to determining the economic affects of various policies.
The chapters in this collection will reveal this tension between theory and practice in order to engage the models of community and the theories of difference that support them as a way to teach, to learn, and to know.
This is an edited volume that examines the US-Japan security alliance, the key to US-Japanese relations since the end of US occupation in the 50s.
This is the first sustained comparative examination of the importance of media... Læs mere
Placing responsibility clearly in the hands of political leadership, Mitchell explores the interaction of leaders,... Læs mere
The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural... Læs mere
Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored human corporeality.
This book offers a brief, broad, comparative study of ethnic politics that places ethnic conflict within the context of particular political systems. To... Læs mere
This book takes a cross-disciplinary look at the financial markets of emerging markets in Latin America. The author wants to disassemble the black box that is the financial market: what are the motivations and interests of the various actors, both institutional and individual?;
This book examines conflict resolution efforts in Latin America by the Organization of American States (OAS) over the past fifty years by exploring the relationship of the United States with other member states within the context of the OAS.
This book assesses the challenge to the dominance of Euro-American political and economic... Læs mere