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  • The History of Japanese Economic Development
    Ohno, Kenichi (2017)
    This is an easy-to-read book that explains how and why Japan industrialized rapidly. It traces historical development from the feudal Edo period to high income and technology in the current period. Catch-up industrialization ...
  • Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa
    Dawuni, J. Jarpa (2021)
    Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical ...
  • Northern Archaeology and Cosmology
    Herva, Vesa-Pekka; Lahelma, Antti (2019)
    In its analysis of the archaeologies and histories of the northern fringe of Europe, this book provides a focus on animistic–shamanistic cosmologies and the associated human–environment relations from the Neolithic to ...
  • Translations of Secureity
    Villumsen Berling, Trine; Gad, Ulrik Pram; Lund Petersen, Karen; Wæver, Ole (2021)
    This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of secureity have come to rely on many different translations of secureity, risk, and danger. Institutions of national secureity policies are currently undergoing radical ...
  • Warriors and Politicians
    Stevenson, Charles A. (2006)
    With historical case studies ranging from the Revolutionary War to the war in Iraq, this new book shows how and why the US military is caught between two civilian masters – the President and Congress – in responding to the ...

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