Roland Eckert & Rainer Winter 
Mediengeschichte und kulturelle Differenzierung [PDF ebook] 
Zur Entstehung und Funktion von Wahlnachbarschaften

This text traces the history of three Far Eastern embassies through the vicissitudes of war and revolution against the background of an apparent steady decline of Western influence in Asia. Dr H …

From the Global to the Local develops a unique perspective on human rights governance in developing countries, where the state often lacks the required resources, capacities and expertise for impleme …

First published in 1969. Contains some of Joseph Needham”s most significant essays, lectures and broadcasts on the history of Chinese science, technology and culture. Also included are some more per …

The last two centuries have witnessed profound changes in the nature of public consciousness. Nowhere has this been more true than in India, especially in relation to changing cultures of public life …

First Published in 1969. Building upon the author”s previous work, Survey of African Marriage and Family Life, this title”s findings are intended to produce for policy-makers a picture of the force …

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China’s economic reform. The series provides …

A coherent and stimulating survey of current research. …

Scattered across the South-East Asian massif, a few dozen ethnic groups (numbering around 50 million) maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against press …

The influence of women in the colonial family and the community is examined using tax and probate records of southside Colonial Virginia. …

State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were …