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41. Believing in Russia - Religious Policy after Communism

    By Geraldine Fagan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This book presents a comprehensive overview of religious policy in Russia since the end of the communist regime, exposing many of the ambiguities and uncertainties about the position of religion in Russian life. It reveals how religious freedom in Russia has, contrary to the widely held view, a...

    Published January 20th 2013 by Routledge
42. Wittgenstein and Scepticism

    Edited by Denis McManus

    Wittgenstein is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last hundred years and scepticism is one of the central problems that modern philosophy faces. This collection is the first to be devoted to an examination of how that great philosopher's work bears on this fundamental philosophical problem....

    Published January 20th 2013 by Routledge
43. Of Planting and Planning

    The making of British colonial cities, 2nd Edition

    By Robert Home

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    ‘At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.’ - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at its...

    Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
44. An International History of Terrorism

    Western and Non-Western Experiences

    Edited by Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Bernhard Blumenau

    Series: Political Violence

    The aim of this book is to provide readers with the tools to understand the historical evolution of terrorism and counterterrorism over the past 150 years. In order to appreciate the contemporary challenges posed by terrorism it is necessary to look at its evolution, at the different phases it has...

    Published January 16th 2013 by Routledge
45. Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia

    By Carl Mosk

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

    This book advances a new theory of why nationalism emerged in the modern world. In particular it explains why nationalism and economic development are closely linked, and why warfare plays a crucial role in the spread of the nation-state system. It is based on qualitative and quantitative evidence...

    Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
46. A Portrait of Roman Britain

    By John Wacher

    The Romans occupied Britain for almost four hundred years, and their influence is still all around us - in the shape of individual monuments such as Hadrians Wall, the palace at Fishbourne and the spa complex at Bath, as well as in subtler things such as the layout and locations of ancient towns...

    Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
47. When A Young Man Falls in Love

    The Sexual Exploitation of Women in New Comedy

    By Vincent J. Rosivach

    When A Young Man Falls in Love examines the plays of New Comedy to reveal how the sexual relationships between the male and female protagonists are essentially exploitative. It poses important questions about the dramatic portrayal of women in the Greek and Roman worlds....

    Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
48. Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans

    Demystifying the Model Minority

    By Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas

    Series: Studies in Asian Americans

    This study examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations....

    Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
49. The Role of the Press and Communication Technology in Democratization

    The Nigerian Story

    By Aje-Ori Anna Agbese

    Series: African Studies

    In the 1990s, Nigeria, like several countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America, underwent transition programs to return the country to democracy. Nigeria’s democratization in the 1990s was a civil and international movement to free Nigeria from over 20 years of authoritarian...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
50. Education for Fullness

    A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

    By H. B. Mukherjee

    Rabindranath Tagore is remembered today chiefly as a poet, and his fame as a poet has often eclipsed his great contributions to other fields of literature and life — especially education. Tagore pondered deeply on the fundamental problems of education — aims, curriculum, method, discipline, values...

    Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge