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Sociology of Modern China

Rocca Jean-Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781849043533, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise "Sociology of Modern China" wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society in little more than a 130 pages, all the while avoiding cliches and s...

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Song of the Shirt The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh

Seabrook Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9781849045223, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In April 2013 Rana Plaza, an unremarkable eight-story commercial block in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,129 people and injuring over 2,000. Most of them were low paid textile workers who had been ordere...

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Subverting Exclusion Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928

Geiger Andrea A. E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212556, ISBN: HB: 9780300169638, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included individuals with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Ge...

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Poverty and the Quest for Life Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India

Singh Bhrigupati

ISBN: PB: 9780226194547, ISBN: HB: 9780226194400, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 2 tables

The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers,...

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Political Science

How Many Is Too Many? The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States

Cafaro Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226190655, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 21 line drawings, 7 tables

From the stony streets of Boston to the rail lines of California, from General Relativity to Google, one of the surest truths of our history is the fact that America has been built by immigrants. The phrase itself has become a steadfast campaign line...

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America

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Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States

Heinemann Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...

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