Feudalism and Non-European Societies

Feudalism and Non-European Societies
Author: T. J. Byres
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1985
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780714632452

'With admirable clarity, Mrs Peters sums up what determines competence in spelling and the traditional and new approaches to its teaching.' -Times Literary Supplement

My Feudal Lord

My Feudal Lord
Author: Tehmina Durrani
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0552142395

Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society. She was expected to marry a wealthy Muslim, bear him children and lead a sheltered life of leisure. This is the story of Tehmina's rebellion from an unhappy marriage.

The Emerald Guide to Talcott Parsons

The Emerald Guide to Talcott Parsons
Author: John Scott
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-08-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839826541

This book is an introductory guide to the work of Talcott Parsons, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Parsons’s sociological ideas, placing them in the context of his life and his position in American sociology.

An Introduction to Comparative Legal Models of Criminal Justice

An Introduction to Comparative Legal Models of Criminal Justice
Author: Cliff Roberson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-01-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1498746292

Updated to reflect changes in the criminal justice systems in several countries, An Introduction to Comparative Legal Models of Criminal Justice, Second Edition explores and illustrates the idea that a country‘s legal model determines the character of its police, corrections, and legal system. It focuses on how law shapes policing, including how it

The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber

The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber
Author: Dr. Edith Hanke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2019-12-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190680628

Active at the time when the social sciences were founded, Max Weber's social theory contributed significantly to a wide range of fields and disciplines. Considering his prominence, it makes sense to take stock of the Weberian heritage and to explore the ways in which Weber's work and ideas have contributed to our understanding of the modern world. Using his work as a point of departure, The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber investigates the Weberian legacy today, identifying the enduring problems and themes associated with his thought that have contemporary significance: the nature of modern capitalism, neo-liberal global economic policy, nationalism, religion and secularization, threats to legality, the culture of modernity, bureaucratic rule and leadership, politics and ethics, the value of science, power and inequality. These problems are global in scope, and the Weberian approach has been used to address them in very different societies. Thus, the Handbook also features chapters on Europe, Turkey, Islam, Judaism, China, India, and international politics. The Handbook emphasizes the use and application of Weber's ideas. It offers a journey through the intellectual terrain that scholars continue to explore using the tools and perspectives of Weberian analysis. The essays explore how Weber's concepts, hypotheses, and perspectives have been applied in practice, and how they can be applied in the future in social inquiry, not only in Europe and North America, but globally. The volume is divided into six parts exploring, in turn: Capitalism in a Globalized World, Society and Social Structure, Politics and the State, Religion, Culture, and Science and Knowledge.

Playing with the Past

Playing with the Past
Author: Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2013-10-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1623568242

Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area of digital game play -- the representation of history. The collection focuses on the ways in which gamers engage with, play with, recreate, subvert, reverse and direct the historical past, and what effect this has on the ways in which we go about constructing the present or imagining a future. What can World War Two strategy games teach us about the reality of this complex and multifaceted period? Do the possibilities of playing with the past change the way we understand history? If we embody a colonialist's perspective to conquer 'primitive' tribes in Colonization, does this privilege a distinct way of viewing history as benevolent intervention over imperialist expansion? The fusion of these two fields allows the editors to pose new questions about the ways in which gamers interact with their game worlds. Drawing these threads together, the collection concludes by asking whether digital games - which represent history or historical change - alter the way we, today, understand history itself.

Theory of Bipolar World:The Road to Communism Found in the Evolutionary Structure of World History

Theory of Bipolar World:The Road to Communism Found in the Evolutionary Structure of World History
Author: Huang Fenglin
Publisher: FengLin Huang
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2020-08-03
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

This academic work, inheriting and developing the basic principles of Marxism, analyzes the world's historical structure by using materialist dialectics and forecasts the direction of the socialist movement and the ways to realize communism. It not only makes up for the horizontal dynamic part of Marxist theory but also points out a logical path for the development of human society. Furthermore, it predicts the proposal and practice of China's "the Belt and Road Initiative" from various aspects and provides the theoretical basis and rationale for building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Revolution As Restoration

Revolution As Restoration
Author: Tze-Ki Hon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004247807

Revolution as Restoration examines the journal Guotui xueaao (1905-1911) to elucidate the momentous political and social changes in early twentieth-century China. Rather than viewing the journal as a collection of documents for studying a thinker (e.g., Zhang Taiyan), a concept (e.g., national essence), or an intellectual movement (e.g., cultural conservatism), this book focuses on the global network of commerce am communication that allowed independent publications to appear in the Chinese print market. As such, this book offers a different perspective on the Chinese quest for modernity. It shows that, from the start, the Chinese quest for modernity was never completely orchestrated by the central government, nor was it static and monolithic as the teleology of revolution describes. Book jacket.

The Nomadic Leviathan

The Nomadic Leviathan
Author: Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2023-05-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004546510

Devised to legitimize the Republic of China’s claim over Inner Asia, the Sinocentric paradigm stems from the Open Door Policy and Chinese nationalism. Advanced against the conquest theory, and rationalized as the pathfinding ecological theory, it is an evolutionary materialist scheme that became the vision of history. Exposing the initial agenda of this paradigm and revealing its fundamental contradictions, The Nomadic Leviathan debunks it as a myth. Resurrecting the conquest theory, and reinforcing it with the idea of extrahuman transportation, this book places pastoralism at the origin of the state and civilization, and the Eurasian steppe at the center of human history; the political emerges as the primary and fundamental order defining the social and economic.