World Literature and Its Times: Volume 2 - African Literature and Its Times
World Literature and Its Times helps students and researchers make connections between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. Each World Literature and Its Times volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and nonfiction from a particular country or region, presenting approximately 50 works in detailed essays running approximately 10 pages.
Japan in World History ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of more recent times, when Japan modernized ferociously, turned imperialist, lost a world war, then became the world's second largest economy--and its greatest foreign aid donor. Writing in a lively fashion, Huffman makes rich use of primary sources, illustrating events with comments by the people who lived through them
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This book represents a remarkable synthesis of recent discussion and debate regarding crucial aspects of postmodernization, religious change and the globalization of world society.
'... this stimulating and provoking collection of essays which, using various conceptual templates, explores the relationship between critiques of orientalism, postmodernism, and the changing role of intellectuals in an increasingly globalized world. Turner is a fine organizer and sifter of the history of sociological thought' - Ecumene
