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Political Cultural Developments in East Asia: Interpreting Logics of Change
Peter Wallace Preston
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Hardback. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 529.
This book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region and its component countries. The discussion considers the region and its countries in terms of their historical legacies (colonialism, war and the preoccupation with development) and argues that each country has constructed their own way of ordering political life, each created its own political logic. Arguing that it is an error to judge these countries' performance against the model of Europe or America, Preston discusses the era of expansionist colonialism, the ... Read more
This book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region and its component countries. The discussion considers the region and its countries in terms of their historical legacies (colonialism, war and the preoccupation with development) and argues that each country has constructed their own way of ordering political life, each created its own political logic. Arguing that it is an error to judge these countries' performance against the model of Europe or America, Preston discusses the era of expansionist colonialism, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
529g
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137572202
SKU
V9781137572202
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About Peter Wallace Preston
P.W. Preston is Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He has lived and worked in East Asia and has published widely on the politics of this region and his own home country, England.
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