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History of Western Philosophy
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Bertrand Russell, Earl
First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, ...
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Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
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Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit
Misperceptions and stereotypes govern much of the way the West is viewed by the rest of the world. These pernicious, and often striking, ways of looking at and talking about the West encourage members of movements such as radical Islam, becoming are the soil in which hate grows. Ian Buruma identifies some of these views, traces their origins in ...
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Home and Exile
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Chinua Achebe
These lectures, given at Harvard in 1998 by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, cover topics ranging from his own youth and the genesis of his great novel THINGS FALL APART, to the depiction of Africa in English writing, the dangers of rampant multiculturalism, and the even greater dangers of imperialism.
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To Change China: Western Advisers in China
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Mr. Jonathan D Spence
As a new era of relations between China and the United States begins, the tales in this volume illuminate the folly of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, and others who foolishly believed they could transform the religious and cultural traditions of this vast, enigmatic country.
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African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity
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Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Explores African art and artistic production in a volatile global marketplace
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The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art, Revised and Expanded Edition
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Michael Sullivan
In this text, the author leads the reader through four centuries of interaction between the artists of China and Japan and those of Western Europe. From Hokusai to van Gogh, the author shows how artistic interpretation has enriched our vision of artists and their aims both East and West.
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History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances From..
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Bertrand Arthur Russell
This comprehensive work presents the history of Western philosophy in its social, economic and political context, enlivened by Bertrand Russell's profound and lucid insight and wit.
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The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century
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Professor Kam Louie, Professor Bonnie S McDougall
In this ground-breaking book, Bonnie S. McDougall and Kam Louie present the first comprehensive, integrated survey of twentieth-century Chinese literature. The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century traces the development of Chinese literature from the Boxer Rebellion, when the strains of Western influence first emerged, to the Tiananmen ...
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The Last Crusade: Americanism and the Islamic Reformation
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Michael A Palmer
The United States, argues Michael A. Palmer, is engaged in a political crusade to modernize the Islamic world. Americanism is in the vanguard of modernity's relentless advance, promoting capitalist markets and democratic institutions. In the absence of a renaissance or enlightenment, modernization in the Islamic world has been painful and ...
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In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literature
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Aijaz Ahmad
This work provides a critique of the major theoretical statements on "colonial discourse" and "post-colonialism", aiming to dismantle many of the commonplaces and conceits that dominate contemporary cultural theory.
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Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa
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Michael D Harris, Moyo Okediji
"Transatlantic Dialogue" opens an exciting cultural dialogue at the crossroads where Western and African art traditions intersect. Despite diversity of media, technique, and form, these contemporary African and African American art works and the artists who created them are united by a rich network of connections, exchanges, and associations ...
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Modern Currents in Japanese Art
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Michiaki Kawakita, Charles S Terry
Part of the "Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art" series, this text is concerned with modern currents in Japanese art. Other titles in the series include "Nara Buddhist Art" and "The Silk Road and the Shoso-in".
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The Deer Cry Pavilion; a story of Westerners in Japan 1868-1905.
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Pat Barr
This is a sequel to "The Coming of the Barbarians" and deals with the period from the accession of Emperor Meiji to the end of the Ruso-Japanese war. In the author's own words, it is "a story of Meiji Japan through the eyes of the Westerners who were involved in the process of its rapid modernization." The Japanese reactions to this process are ...
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Japan Encounters the Barbarian: Japanese Travellers in America and Europe
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William G Beasley, G G Gwilliam
In this book a distinguished historian of Japan discusses Japan's "cultural borrowing" from America and Europe. W.G. Beasley focuses on the mid-nineteenth century, when Japan's rulers dispatched diplomatic missions to the West to discover what Japan needed to learn, sent students to learn it, and invited foreign experts to Japan to help put the ...
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Modern China: A Very Short Introduction
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Rana Mitter
China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still ...
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China and Charles Darwin
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James Reeve Pusey
Although Charles Darwin never visited China, his ideas landed there with force. Darwinism was the first great Western theory to make an impact on the Chinese and, from 1895 until at least 1921, when Marxism gained a formal foothold, it was the dominant Western "ism" influencing Chinese politics and thought. The authority of Darwin, sometimes ...
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Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India
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Dr. Sanjay Seth
"Subject Lessons" is a provocative and insightful analysis of the reception of western education in colonial India. Beginning in 1835, British colonizers sought to promote modern, western knowledge in India, primarily through schools. They anticipated that western knowledge would gradually replace indigenous ways of knowing, which they condemned ...
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A Western Jesus: The Wayward Americanization of Christ and the Church
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Mike Minter
The transcendent Christ found in the Bible is rediscovered and plugged back into the wayward, truth-hungry, over-Americanized world in A Western Jesus.
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The Great Confrontation: Europe and Islam Through the Centuries
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Ilya V Gaiduk
A concise survey of the long and complex history of relations between Europe and Islam, from the early seventh century to the present day. The book differs from other works in its inclusion of Russia as part of European civilization and in describing Russian relations with Islam. Mr. Gaiduk argues that in today's interrelated and interdependent ...
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Wizards & Scientists-PB
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Stephan Palmie, Stephan Palmie
In "Wizards and Scientists" Stephan Palmie offers a corrective to existing historiography on the Caribbean, focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture to demonstrate that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are steeped in the same history that produced modernity and represent complex hybrid formations. Palmie argues that the ...
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Sirens of the Western Shore: Westernesque Women and Translation in Modern Japanese Literature
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Professor Indra Levy
Indra Levy introduces a new archetype in the study of modern Japanese literature: the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language. She played conspicuous roles in landmark works of modern Japanese fiction and ...
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Clark: Modern Asian Art
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John Clark
This text presents a seminal publication focusing on the modern art of Japan, China, India, Thailand and Indonesia.
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Western Structures Meet Native Traditions: The Interfaces of Educational Cultures (Hc)
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Cheryl Woolsey Des Jarlais
As Western educational practices have become global, the cultural aspects and the problems associated with them have become more apparent as they are contrasted with local ways of learning and knowing in the widely diverse societies around the world. The Western world has tended to assume that its concepts of progress and development should be ...
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Wizards & Scientists-CL
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Stephan Palmie, Stephan Palmie
In "Wizards and Scientists", Stephan Palmie offers a corrective to existing historiography on the Caribbean, focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture to demonstrate that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are steeped in the same history that produced modernity and represent complex hybrid formations. Palmie argues that the ...
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The western world and Japan.
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Sir George Sansom
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