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41. Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt

    Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection

    By Nahyan Fancy

    Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

    The discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood was a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life sciences, and a prerequisite for William Harvey’s fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. This book is the first attempt at understanding Ibn al-Nafis’s anatomical...

    Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
42. India’s Strategic Culture

    The Making of National Security Policy

    By Shrikant Paranjpe

    This book argues that the Indian strategic worldview underpinning its national security policy is born out of a predominant historical–civilizational perspective. Based on an understanding of India as a ‘civilization-state’ with long history, this evolved strategic approach engages with security...

    Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge India
43. Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe

    States, media and markets 1950-2010

    Edited by Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young, Richard Holt

    Series: CRESC

    In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalization. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, illuminating sport...

    Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
44. Communist Indochina

    By R. B. Smith

    Edited by Beryl Williams

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    This book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. It explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French...

    Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
45. Modern Japan and its Problems

    By G Allen

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    The author, who was for several years a lecturer in a Japanese Government College, has tried to interpret the civilization and national character of Japan in the light of his experience and of his studies in that country. He describes the novel problems and phenomena which have been created by the...

    Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
46. Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia

    Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations

    Edited by Adam Clulow

    Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan across the long sweep of the early modern and modern periods. Drawing on new research by scholars from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, it moves...

    Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
47. Origins of the War in the East

    By Aron Shai

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    This study describes the British government’s policy towards China during the first phases of the undeclared Sino-Japanese war, starting in July 1937 when the conflict in North China culminated in all-out hostilities; and ending in September 1939 when the outbreak of the war over Poland forced the...

    Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
48. Empires and Boundaries

    Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings

    Edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné, Susanne Gehrmann

    Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

    Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions...

    Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge
49. Genocide Matters

    Ongoing Issues and Emerging Perspectives

    Edited by Joyce Apsel, Ernesto Verdeja

    This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas: The current state of research on genocide New thinking on the categories and methods of mass violence Developments in teaching about genocide...

    Published April 21st 2013 by Routledge
50. A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media

    By Jesse Drew

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    The last few decades have helped dispel the myth that media should remain driven by high-end professionals and market share. This book puts forward the concept of "communications from below" in contrast to the "globalization from above" that characterizes many new developments in international...

    Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge