Area Studies in the Global Age
Edith Clowes (Ed.)
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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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