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POLITICAL SCIENCE:

The Imperial Moment: Edited by Kimberly Kagan; What were the critical characteristics that distinguished the imperial period of the state from its pre-imperial period? In a provocative study on comparative empire, noted historians identify periods of transition across history that reveal how and why empires emerge. Kimberly Kagan provides a concluding essay that probes the historical cases for insights into policymaking and the nature of imperial power.; Hardcover 2010

The Limits of Change: Edited by Charlotte Furth; The Limits of Change disputes the impression that the conservative ideas and styles of China's Republican period were neither strong nor persuasive enough to counter the ideas or the revolution of Mao. As the contributors to the book point out, these conservative movements reflected a modern outlook and shared a framework of common concepts with the radical movements they opposed. Through its far-reaching, detailed, and sympathetic assessment of the role of conservative ideology in China's modern intellectual experience, it makes a distinguished contribution to Chinese studies.; Hardcover 1976

Meiroku Zasshi: William R. Braisted; Trained as Western experts during the reopening of the country after 1853, the men who wrote for the Meiroku Zosshi introduced mid-nineteenth-century European and American culture to Japan. This crucial work in Japanese cultural history is now accessible to readers in a translation by William R. Braisted. Nowhere else can one find gathered together such representative writings by the leading intellectuals of the day.; Hardcover 1976