Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Regional Studies

Now in its fifty-sixth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geo-political and economic information for this important world area.

Key Features

• covers the Middle East and North Africa from Algeria to Yemen
• includes topical contributions from acknowledged experts on the region
• accurately and impartially records the latest political and economic developments
• provides comprehensive data on all major organizations in the region.

General Survey

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The scholar and diplomat Sir Ernest Satow was the best-known Westerner who lived in Meiji Japan. Although he rose to become British Minister to Japan and China, the most interesting part of his career was the start of it, when he witnessed, and in a small way influenced, the fall of the Bakufu and the Meiji Restoration. He wrote an account of this in a memoir called A Diplomat in Japan, published in 1921.

While Satow's appointment as Minister to Tokyo in 1895 was understandable in terms of his background and skills, he was not the obvious choice for the Beijing (Peking)...

This is the first part of a new series of collections of early English writings on children. It consists of facsimile reprints of rare educational and religious books and pamphlets, including conduct books and advice for parents in the early Modern period. A total of forty-five items is planned for inclusion within the three-part series.

Founded in 1853, prior to the Dublin Celtic Society, the Ossianic Society, with such members as John O Daly, William Elliot Hudson, John Edward Pigot, Owen Connellan, John Windele, and William Smith O Brien, played a leading role in the Celtic revival in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland. The primary aim of the Society was to collect, publish, and translate the Ossian and Finnian poems in English; and during its nine-year existence it released six volumes of its Transactions, all of which are reprinted here in a facsimile format. Despite its short life, the Society s influence on later key...

A. J. Arberry is one of Britain s most distinguished and celebrated Orientalist scholars. This set contains five of Professor Arberry s works:

• Scheherezade: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (1953)
• The Seven Odes: The First Chapter in Arabic literature (1957)
• Classical Persian Literature (1958)
• The Romance of the Rubaiiyati (1959)
• Oriental Essays: Portraits of Seven Scholars (1960)
• More Tales from the Masnavi (1963).

These titles include...

Especially since the end of the Cold War, research on and around the international relations of Asia has grown exponentially and, to make sense of what is now a vast and unwieldly corpus of scholarly literature, this new four-volume collection from Routledge s Critical Issues in Modern Politics series brings together the best and most influential work in the field.It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers of Asian international relations, politics, history, and current affairs as a vital resource.

This is a three-volume collection of caricatures and cartoons published between 1890-1905 in nearly 300 newspapers and journals of 25 countries, which includes India, Japan and other non-western regions as well as the UK, US and Europe. Including nearly 4200 illustrations, Caricatures and Cartoons, 1890-1905: A History of the World vividly describes the changes of the world around the turn of the century.

Originally selected by the editor of The Review of Reviews, a monthly magazine published since 1889 in the UK and US, which carried the summery of news and reports...

Published by Eureka Press, Tokyo, and distributed outside Japan by Routledge.

This is the second part of a new facsimile series which reprints The Modern Traveller, originally published in 30 volumes between 1825 and 1829.

--Edited by Josiah Conder, known as the editor of journals like The Eclectic Review or The Patriot, The Modern Traveller was a successful series of travel books published just prior to Britain's transport revolution which saw the development and rapid expansion of roads and railways.

--Reflecting Britain's imperial...

This is the third and the final set of the Edition Synapse series which makes available in facsimile Yone Noguchi's complete works in English, including all his published poetry, novels, literary essays, and art criticism.

Yonejiro Noguchi (1875-1947), known in the West as Yone Noguchi, was an influential writer of poetry, fiction, and essays (including art and literary criticism) in both English and Japanese. He was the only Japanese author who published original literary works in English, and he gained a strong reputation in Western cultural society before the Second World War. At...

• The very first facsimile reprint collection of the works of Ada Ballin (1863-1906), the leader of childcare and parenting in Victorian Britain and a pioneer of the scientific management of infant health.
• Ballin founded an influential magazine, Baby, for middle-class mothers, organized a series of trade fairs, 'Baby's Exhibition', and gave many lectures.
• In this collection, in addition to all of her published books, her lecture at the famous International Health Exhibition and a series of pamphlets, 'Mother's Guide', are reprinted with many...

--This is the first part of a new facsimile series which reprints The Modern Traveller , originally published in 30 volumes between 1825 and 1829.

--Edited by Josiah Conder, known as the editor of journals like The Eclectic Review or The Patriot, The Modern Traveller was a successful series of travel books published just prior to Britain's transport revolution which saw the development and rapid expansion of roads and railways.

--Reflecting Britain's imperial ambitions and the expansion of its Empire around the globe, the series had global range,...

After nearly three decades of rapid economic development, China is now a major power whose actions can significantly affect other countries, from America to Zimbabwe. As a result, China Studies has grown exponentially. In particular, there is a growing interest in studies of Chinese politics, not least because of the considerable uncertainties that remain over the country's future political direction.

This new Routledge title is a comprehensive collection of the best classic and cutting-edge scholarship. Volume I examines policy-making and policy implementation and includes analyses...

A definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic and directory data.

It includes:

• over 1,500 pages of economic and demographic statistics, wide-ranging directory material and authoritative articles
• contributions from over fifty leading experts on African affairs
• incisive analysis of the latest available information.

General Survey

• Thoroughly revised and updated analytical articles written by acknowledged experts covering the issues affecting the area as a whole, including:...

This set provides the very first collection of Yone Noguchi s works in English, including all of his books of poetry, novels, and literary essays.

Yonejiro Noguchi (1875 1947), known in the West as Yone Noguchi, was an influential writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He was the only Japanese author who published original literary works in English, and he gained a strong reputation in Western cultural society before the Second World War. Along with his active writings of literary works, which were collected in the first part of the...

This facsimile collection is a reprint of the original edition of the Victorian Who's Who published in London in 1897-an extremely rare text which is not even held by the British Library. The biographical reference in two large volumes covers more than six thousand notable people from late nineteenth-century London society, including many who do not feature in other biographical sources such as the Dictionary of National Biography. It also includes non-British people and non-Western names like Meiji Emperor of Japan and Yukichi Fukuzawa. An extremely valuable source of information for any...