Regional studies books

Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol...  Read More >>

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin...  Read More >>

This book is the first of its kind to bring basic notions of contemporary physics to bear on African cine-scapes....  Read More >>

This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors’...  Read More >>

Building on archival work undertaken in France and fieldwork undertaken in Southeast Asia, Museum-Making in Vietnam,...  Read More >>

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the ‘caribbeanization’ of archives in the region, considering what those...  Read More >>

This timely new handbook surveys and analyses peacebuilding as it operates in this specifically African context....  Read More >>

William A. Graham is an influential and pioneering scholar of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. This volume...  Read More >>

This book critically examines the active role played by youth-led social movements in pushing for change and promoting...  Read More >>

This book identifies the differences in growth and development, and the various factors lying behind them, across...  Read More >>

This book discusses creative economies in Africa, focusing on changing dynamics related to working, co-working and...  Read More >>

This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern...  Read More >>

This book explores the ways in which the anti-colonial struggles against the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa...  Read More >>

The book investigates the lives and careers of the Procaccini brothers: Camillo (1561- 1629), Carlo Antonio (1571-1631)...  Read More >>

This book brings together studies from a range of disciplines to examine what it means to be Indigenous Khoe and...  Read More >>

This book inaugurates the field of Mad Studies in the Indian subcontinent investigating the barriers to recovery...  Read More >>

Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced...  Read More >>

As the first volume of a two-volume set, this book systematically examines the process of rural reconstruction in...  Read More >>

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Through a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book...  Read More >>

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Are new ideas needed to disentangle the uses and abuses of the idea of civil society both in South Asia and beyond?...  Read More >>

This two-volume set examines the process of rural integration in modern China. In short, this is how the state penetrates...  Read More >>

The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish literature through 33 case studies,...  Read More >>