Product Description: The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy...read more

Despite China's obvious and growing importance on the world stage, it is often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey of contemporary China vividly illustrates. Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition that offers the only sustained geography of the reform era, this book traces the changes occurring in this powerful and ancient nation across both time and space. Beginning with China's diverse landscapes and environments, and continuing through its formative history and tumultuous recent past, the authors present contemporary China as a product of both internal and external forces of past and present. They trace current and future successes and challenges while placing China in its international context as a massive, still-developing nation that must meet the needs of its 1.3 billion citizens while becoming a major regional and global player. Through clear prose and new, dynamic maps and photos, China's Geography illustrates and explains the great differences in economy and culture found throughout China's many regions.

Examines the style, structure, characters, and themes found in Arthur Miller's 'All my sons.' (view table of contents)

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Informed by a geographer's perspective, this text portrays a vast country where distance still acts as a major constraint on social interaction, where the population is so huge that demand for resources almost always outstrips supply, and where regional variations have produced a rich mosaic of human and physical characteristics. The author portrays the relatively unexplored world of everyday life in China by examining the exodus from countryside to city, the status of women after decades of Confucian oppression, and the future for ethnic minorities. This text should be useful as an introduction to China in all relevant disciplines.

Product Description: Reflecting recent trends towards interdisciplinary and multilevel analyses of mental health and mental health care, this volume provides a cross-section of research into an increasingly important part of socio-medical studies. Mental illness and handicap are widespread in developed countries, and are coming to be recognized as major health problems especially in the wake of substantial progress in eliminating the many severely disabling of fatal diseases prevalent in pre-industrial and industrial rimes...read more

Product Description: First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.