Globalization and the Humanities

Globalization and the HumanitiesThis is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance. Against the tyranny of the worldwide free market that naturalizes the aggregation of power for the increasingly few, the contributors to this volume at once advocate an egalitarian model of global distributive justice and cultivate a cosmopolitan communal

existing both within the ethical and historical reality of the state and at the same time maintaining an absolute

A comprehensive examination of the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism

Introduces the history of perspectives on ancient metals in Southeast Asia

behind-the-scenes influence of New York City politics

and what was the nature of opposition to Buddhism from Brahmin hegemony

Directory of World Cinema: China presents an accessible overview of the definitive films of Hong Kong and mainland China

Along with new developments in the study of African slavery these sources provide a perspective on the lives of non-elite trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth century Egypt and beyond

and conferences in the challenging context of burgeoning civil society efforts in Turkey

she provides entries for each day of treatment

[I]n this edition

Addresses patient education

for centuries