Humanities Paperbacks

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11. Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan

    By Curtis Anderson Gayle

    Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

    This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
12. Information Society Studies

    By Alistair S. Duff

    Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

    We are often told that we are "living in an information society" or that we are "information workers." But what exactly do these claims mean, and how might they be verified? In this important methodological study, Alistair S. Duff cuts through the rhetoric to get to the bottom of the "information...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
13. Six Centuries of Work and Wages

    The History of English Labour

    By James E. Thorold Rogers

    Series: Economic History

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
14. Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism

    Spectacle, Politics and History

    By Hong Kal

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
15. Great Cities of the World

    Their government, Politics and Planning

    Edited by W.A. Robson

    The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
16. Centrality and Cities

    By James Bird

    Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant past and its future. He sees centrality as a mental projection on to space, and discusses the concept in relation to three types of its manifestation in...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
17. Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700

    Edited by Peter Clark, Paul Slack

    This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to the...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
18. Planning and Profit in the Urban Economy

    By T.A. Broadbent

    This book was first published in 1977....

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
19. The English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation

    By Peter Heath

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
20. Western India in the Nineteenth Century

    A study in the social history of Maharashtra

    By Ravinder Kumar

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge