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Anglo American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War: Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline
Sebastiaan Faber, "Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War: Hispanophilia, Commitment, ... written, this thoroughly researched book illuminates brilliantly the political labyrinth which many American scholars had to navigate in the 1930s and 1950s and, indeed, still ... often at odds with each other shape the work of British and American scholars of Spain. Focusing on the participant/observer tension that frequently haunts the work of scholars who are called upon to interpret and judge ...
In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West (Harvard East Asian Series)
... work, which is in the best tradition of Sinology and historical scholarship. (Saturday Review ) Penetrating...With a command of both Eastern and Western sources rare among American scholars of his generation, Professor Schwartz presents a thoughtful and sophisticated attempt to reconstruct Yen Fu's image of the world.Li Yu-ning (Political Science Quarterly ) ...
Puritans in Babylon
... pages | 10 MB From the 1880s through the 1920s a motley collection of American scholars, soldiers of fortune, institutional bureaucrats, and financiers created the academic fields that give ... two other contemporary developments: first, the maturation of the American university, particularly in contrast to its German counterpart; and ... the censure of orientalism hinges on modes of argumentation that scholars of the ancient Near East helped to legitimate, and ...
Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia
... | PDF (OCR from html) | 1.1 MBRecent commentators on Russia's economic reforms have almost uniformly declared them a disappointing and avoidable--failure. In this book, two American scholars take a new and more balanced look at the country's attempts to build capitalism on the ruins of Soviet central planning. They show how and why the Russian ...
Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation
... of viewers and inspired later generations of artists. Despite Cranach's crucial role as an interpreter of Lutheran ideas, his Reformation paintings remain unfamiliar to many American scholars. Lucas Cranach the Elder: Art and Devotion of the German Reformation presents Cranach's Reformation painting to a broader audience and explains the pictorial strategies Cranach ...
Entrepreneurship, Cooperation and the Firm: The Emergence and Survival of High Technology Ventures in Europe
... its competitiveness and retain at the same time its quality of living.' The book is an exceptional result of a distinctive network of European and American scholars, practitioners, and members of public institutions interested in the critical issues of emergence and survival of technology and knowledge based firms. The contributors study ...
Hybrid Factory: The Japanese Production System in The United States
... have expanded their operations into the United States more attention has been focused on Japanese management and manufacturing. In Hybrid Factory a team of Japanese and American scholars explores the potential for the effective transfer of Japanese management and production systems that have been credited with giving Japanese firms their competitive superiority to a ...
Power and Restraint: A Shared Vision for the U.S. China Relationship
... the U.S.-China Relationship" PublicAffairs | 2009-03-02 | ISBN: 1586487426 | 272 pages | PDF | 1,1 MBOver several years, some of the most distinguished Chinese and American scholars have engaged in a major research project, sponsored by the China–U.S. Exchange Foundation (USEF), to address the big bilateral and global issues the two countries face. ...
Robert O. Freedman Contemporary Israel: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and Security Challenges
... and Syria, nuclear threats from Iran, and even the specter of civil war as Israel withdrew from Gaza. This essential survey brings together Israeli and American scholars to provide a much-needed balanced introduction to Israel’s domestic politics and foreign policy. Experts tackle this difficult subject in three parts: domestic ...
Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion
... crossings and flows. A deeply researched, broadly gauged, and vividly written study of religion such as few American scholars have ever attempted, Crossing and Dwelling depicts religion in place and in movement, dwelling and crossing. Tweed ... , even as it moves toward ideas about cross-cultural patterns. At a time when scholars in many fields shy away from generalizations, this book offers a responsible way to think ...
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