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This study examines the relationship between state and society in early 20th-century Japan through a case study of public policies directed towards the media. It raises basic issues about the Japanese state and compares Japan with other countries during the same era.

Identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political corruption, extinction, and highly unsettling legacy. This study includes essays that reject the fundamental assumptions about social change which inform the work of modernization theorists.

Presents an analysis designed to bridge the gap between village studies and social history. This book describes the forces that have shaped upland politics and society from pre-colonial times to the Green Revolution.

An ethnographic study of Yemeni tribal poetry that reveals a folkloric system where poetry is a creation of art and a political and social act. Drawing on field research in North Yemen, it shows the significance of poetry in Yemeni society, analyzing verse genres and their use in weddings, war mediations, and political discourse on the state.

An ethnographic study of Malay healing ceremonies involving the practices of shamen, who place their patients in a trance and encourage them to express their inner thoughts in a type of performance. The ceremony reveals a psychological content relevant to Western medical practice today.

Begun shortly after the Spanish Civil War, this collection of poems by the Spanish Nobel Laureate was written during a period of hardship and despair. In spite of his surroundings, Aleixandre created the splendour of a lost paradise from nostalgia, memory and illusion.

A legendary book collector, philanthropist, horticulturist, and connoisseur of fine art, Henry Edwards Huntington is best known for founding his library in California. This biography tells the story of the man who was a leading figure in the development of southern California.

An American boy, son of Presbyterian missionaries, was born in Shanghai. The boy lived two lives, one within the pious church compound, the other along the canal and in the alleys of a traditional Chinese city. And when John Espey grew up, he wrote about his years in China. This memoir presents the story of those years.

The three plays in this volume, composed between 1672 or 1673 and 1675, demonstrate Dryden's versatility and inventiveness as a dramatist.

Exploring the significance of education to Chinese social, political and intellectual life in late imperial China, this volume contains 15 essays providing a wide-ranging study of China's early education policies.

A comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as 'The War of Resistance against Japan'). It shows how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural forms to reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause.

This edition bring up-to-date the author's seminal study of mental retardation. Focusing on the role of stigma and the efforts of the mentally handicapped to pass normal lives, the text explores such areas as social competence, independence and quality of life.

This collection of essays concerns both urban and rural Chinese communities, ranging from professional to working-class families. The contributors attempt to determine whether and to what extent the policy shifts that followed Mao Zedong's death affected Chinese families.

Victim of Stalinist-era terror, Lena Constante was arrested on trumped-up charges of 'espionage' and sentenced to twelve years in Romanian prisons. This work offers an account of the first eight years of her incarceration - years of solitary confinement during which she was tortured, starved, and daily humiliated.

A frank appraisal of the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa, this study explores social conditions and political constraints, and proposes both options for a new South Africa and a post-Cold War foreign policy for Southern Africa as a whole.

Presents an account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won journalist Upton Sinclair the governor's mansion. This title tells the story of Sinclair's campaign while also capturing the turbulent political mood of the 1930s.

The author offers a new interpretation of Aristotelian thought by describing Aristotle's belief of community as a conflict-ridden fact of everyday life, as well as an ideal of social harmony. He then goes on to describe how Aristotelian ideas can provide insight into contemporary politics.

Arbitration and mediation were central institutions in Hellenistic public life. This study brings together literary and epigraphical sources on arbitration, presenting documents ranging from the settlement of a minor territorial squabble to the resolution of major conflicts.

This study defies the conventional wisdom that the 17th century gave birth to the political and economic forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution, claiming instead that earlier reformers, such as More and Fortescue, laid the groundwork by fashioning an economic conception of state.

Opera is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years. How did this madness for opera take root and grow? This study contributes to a new understanding of urban culture in the Jacksonian-Manifest Destiny eras, and the role of opera in cities during this time, especially in the American West.

With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. In this book, Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued from the 1930s to the 1950s.

A selection of 220 rhymes from two collections of Chinatown songs published in 1911 and 1915. The songs are outspoken, addressing subjects as diverse as sex, frustrations with the American bureaucracy, poverty and alienation, and the loose morals of the younger generation of Americans.

Explores the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in 19th-century America. Arguing that domesticity not only presumes but institutes distinctions of gender, class and race, Brown reveals how these distinctions in turn inform identity.

The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between state and society.

Attempts to account for the widespread phenomenon of sport. Drawing upon ethnological findings to demonstrate the ritual character of sport, the text explores the relationship between ancient Greek sport and sacrificial ritual and traces elements common to both back to primitive origins.

"The Bihishti Zewar" was written in northern India in the early 1900s by a revered Muslim scholar and spiritual guide, Maulana Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi (1864-1943). This book selects those sections of the Bihishti Zewar that best illustrate the themes of reformist thought about God, the person, society, and gender.

Addresses the problems of urban decline and suburban sprawl, transportation, city politics, open space, and the character and fabric of cities.

A comparison of rural development in India and the United States that develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a fresh conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premise that policy implementation, as the site of tangible exchanges between state and society.

Features the South Indian devotional poems that show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer.

The magical coyote is a mythical American Indian figure whose various roles are recounted here in a selection of stories and poems. The text brings together diverse portraits of the coyote from Native American myths and modern American writing.