"Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents …
The third of October 2020 marked the 90th anniversary of the Brazilian Revolution of 1930. Although this event is recognized in Brazilian historiography as an important landmark in the construction of contemporary Brazil, debate, discourse, and indeed publications commemorating …
What does it mean to be modern? This study regards the concept of ‘society’ as foundational to modern self-understanding. Identifying Arabic conceptualizations of society in the journal al-Manar, the mouthpiece of Islamic reformism, the author shows how modernity was articulated…
"The book explores the complex world of Islam from the perspective of its adherents and activists in Azerbaijan. Baku, the most secular Muslim capital city, is a battlefield for the minds and souls of "ethnic Muslims." Visiting pirs was till now the typical expression of religio…
"The lawyer of the future will exist as a 'polytechnic' or 'many-skilled' professional, applying their legal expertise to a client's changing world in an increasingly agile way and within a range of organisational settings. For legal educators, there is a need to consider how ed…
This volume is a collection of primary source documents and is a companion to the text: The Search for Modern China, 2nd edition. The documents range from the essential political works to the less standard ones that reflect everyday life, the family, social networks, and cultura…
Introduction: The proliferation of the particular -- The social logic of the general -- The social logic of the particular -- Culture and culturalization -- The transformation of the cultural sphere -- Unique goods in cultural capitalism -- Cultural singularity markets -- Practi…
Analyzes the position of Jews in Poland in the 16th-18th centuries, up to Poland's final partition. States that Poland was not able to modernize its backward social, economic, and political systems. Jews were blamed for failure to modernize, which contributed to economic antisem…
Analyzes the position of Jews in Poland in the 16th-18th centuries, up to Poland's final partition. States that Poland was not able to modernize its backward social, economic, and political systems. Jews were blamed for failure to modernize, which contributed to economic antisem…
