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Area Studies in the Global Age

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Description for Area Studies in the Global Age Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GT; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.

This interdisciplinary volume is a new introduction to area studies in the framework of whole-world thinking. Emerging in the United States after World War II, area studies have proven indispensable to American integration in the world. They serve two main purposes: to equip future experts with rich cultural-historical and political-economic knowledge of a world area in its global context and advanced foreign language proficiency, and to provide interested readers with well-founded analyses of a vast array of the world's communities.

Area Studies in the Global Age examines the interrelation between three constructions central to any culture—community, place, and identity—and builds ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875807270
SKU
V9780875807270
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About Edith Clowes (Ed.)
Edith W. Clowes is the Brown-Forman Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia and author of The Revolution of Moral Consciousness and, most recently, Russia on the Edge. Shelly Jarrett Bromberg is associate professor and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Miami University.

Reviews for Area Studies in the Global Age
Area Studies in the Global Age is a fruitful read and should find its way onto the reading lists of incoming graduate students, as well as, scholars and policy makers.
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Area Studies in the Global Age offers a lucid account of the multiple and overlapping challenges currently facing the production of global knowledge as it has been ... Read more

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