Computers, Inc
May 28, 2015
This account of efforts to build a domestic Japanese computer industry is enlivened with quotations from industrial leaders commenting on the stages through which Japan has emerged as a world-class
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Essential Outsiders
May 21, 2015
Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, like Jews in Central Europe until the Holocaust, have been remarkably successful as an entrepreneurial and professional minority. Whole regimes have sometimes relied on the
The Shape of the New
May 21, 2015
This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we
The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe
May 21, 2015
Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world,
Ethnopolitical Warfare
May 21, 2015
Why does ethnopolitical conflict sometimes lead to genocide and other times to peace? In this volume, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and historians examine over a dozen international cases to try
Contentious Identities
May 21, 2015
This book analyzes widespread global ethnic conflicts that tear asunder nations and regions, such as the former Yugoslavia. Dan Chirot casts his analysis in a discussion of the conflict between
How Societies Change
May 21, 2015
How have societies changed over the past 5,000 years? Welcome to the brief, manageable macro-sociology text that takes your students on a journey to answer this question. This book, the
Modern Tyrants
May 21, 2015
Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind.
Social Change in the Modern Era
May 21, 2015
An examination of social change around the world from a global and historical perspective. Part One explains the rise of the Western world from the 1500s, while Part Two and
Social Change in a Peripheral Society
May 21, 2015
Social Change in a Peripheral Society: The Creation of a Balkan Colony focuses on the nature of social change in peripheral societies, societies on the margins of the capitalist European