Books in the Foundations in Global Studies series

This is the first book in M. E. Sharpes new Foundations in Global Studies series and it offers a comprehensive introduction to this important region. The book opens with an overview of the area and it also features: a fresh, global perspective, foundational overviews, case studies, extensive resource notes, and end-of-chapter bibliographic materials.

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this student-friendly text helps students to understand the globalizing processes relating to environment and sustainability that are examined in a range of disciplines, including environmental studies, geography, global studies, political science, international affairs, comparative politics.

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this student-friendly text helps students to understand the globalizing processes relating to environment and sustainability that are examined in a range of disciplines, including environmental studies, geography, global studies, political science, international affairs, comparative politics.

This text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to East Asia. After a brief introduction to the study of East Asia, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of East Asian history and offer an overview of the region's languages, economic development, and global connections. The second half of the book features interdisciplinary case studies that explore key aspects of the cultural, economic, and political life in specific countries.

This text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to East Asia. After a brief introduction to the study of East Asia, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of East Asian history and offer an overview of the region¿s languages, economic development, and global connections. The second half of the book features interdisciplinary case studies that explore key aspects of the cultural, economic, and political life in specific countries.

This text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East. Readers will come away from this book with an