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A new society and economy has blossomed in post-Mao China, but an old state holds it back. This book addresses the question central to China today: Is the Peoples Republic of China, whose politics is a hybrid of Chinese imperial tradition and Western Marxism, willing to become a modern nation or does it insist on remaining an empire?

This book brings together the foremost scholars of Islam and Muslim politics in Australia to consider the relationship between Australian politics and society and Muslim Communities in Australia. - The book responds to such questions as: - Is there a Muslim community in Australia? - How do national differences affect the assumed 'Muslim community'? - How do Muslim residents in Australia identify themselves? - How has the experience of migratio...

Habitats of Wales" presents the findings of a major field survey undertaken in the latter part of the twentieth century across the rural landscapes of Wales. Among the major types of terrestrial habitat discussed are the woodlands, grasslands, heathlands, mires, and coastlands. For each of the habitats, the authors provide distribution maps, information on habitat fragmentation and connectivity, and the debates surrounding land-use planning an...

Pioneering the use of the National Vegetation Classification for describing and mapping vegetation at a regional scale, this comprehensive volume provides a unique account of the plant communities in the species-rich lowland grasslands of Wales at the end of the twentieth century, detailing the distribution, concentration, and physical and environmental characteristics of each species.

This much-needed history remembers those women in Wales who--at the end of the nineteenth century and before World War I--fought for and won their right to vote and to hold public office. Ursula Masson documents the countless efforts that these determined women made toward achieving equality, comparing and contrasting their agenda with that of their English counterparts and defining those aspects that were distinctly Welsh.

Much scholarship has been done on Welsh and English cities after the Black Death but until now no serious attempt has been made to understand what they were like in the seventy-five or so years preceding the pandemic. In "Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales, " Matthew Frank Stevens fills this research gap, drawing on a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss the significance of ethnicity, gender, and social status in the...

In 1594 George Owen--a historian and geologist from Pembrokeshire--wrote "The Dialogue of the Government of Wales, " a commentary on the Welsh government after the Acts of Union. The study detailed the methods used by Henry VII and Henry VIII to maintain law and order, praising the Tudor monarchs for their enlightened policies. This new edition, edited by Welsh historian John Gwynfor Jones, contains an updated version of the text, numerous exp...

Born in Trefechan, Aberystwyth in 1932, Herbert Williams is one of Wales's most celebrated and distinguished writers. In this engaging book--part biography, part critical reader--Phil Carradice leads readers on an extended tour of Williams's prolific career, touching on Williams's motivations for writing and assessing the literary significance of his numerous works of biography, fiction, poetry, and history. What results is not just the tale o...

Focusing upon the horse in Celtic culture, this text should be of general interest as well as of importance within the wider context of horsemanship and military tactics in Medieval Britain and Europe.

For more than 20 years this essential reference has been the bible for Australian students of horticulture--and for practicing horticulturists, groundskeepers, landscapers, and gardeners. With 42 new illustrations, this updated edition has been substantially revised to include the latest advances in horticultural production, with significant revisions to chapters on soil-borne diseases, fertilizers, nursery practices, turf irrigation, and drai...

Focusing on Australia's position within the global economy, this thorough reference presents a striking picture of the interaction between politics and economics. Beginning with historical analysis of this relationship, the study presents Australia's origins as a convict settlement through its development of self-governing colonies to its ultimate development as a federation. Addressing such questions as "How did Australia transform from a pro...

In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first American civilian flight school in Montgomery, Alabama. Author Julie Hedgepeth Williams chronicles the short life of this flight school as seen mainly through the eyes of the Alabama press, whose reporting and sometimes misreporting "reflected the misconceptions, hopes, dreams, and fears about aviation in 1910, painting a picture of a time when flight was untested, unsteady, and unavailable t...

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First published in 1939, "These Poor Hands" was an instant best-seller, catapulting its author, B. L. Coombes, to the front rank of proletarian writers. Coombes was born in England, but he lived for decades in the Vale of Neath in south Wales, and as the economic problems of the 1930s deepened, he turned to writing as a way to spread the word about the plight of miners and their communities to a wider world. Presenting the daily lives of miner...

Addressing the interface between medical history and the study of contemporary issues in medicine and health, this book pays particular attention to the conduct of clinical research, the relativity of medical knowledge, and the relationship between patients and practitioners. The contested boundaries between the public and the private are a defining feature of modernity and an important focus for postmodernist accounts of power and identity. T...

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This lively and informative account of the life, work, and death of the Welsh-born poet Ben Bowen (1878-1903), published on the centenary of his death, seeks to explain Bowen's short-lived fame and subsequent obscurity. It considers his precocious sense of himself as a poet, the literary, social, and religious milieu in which he operated, his desire to use poetry as an escape from humble beginnings, and his awareness from his late teens of his...

Centering on Immanuel Kant s 1793 essay "Theory and Practice, in which he critiques the thinking of Thomas Hobbes, this book presents a systematic contrast of the ideas of the two philosophers on morals and politics. A study of the relationship between the two thinkers, this book reveals that viable alternatives to Hobbes's beliefs can be found in Kam's political writings. Williams shows how Kant anticipates the development of a worldwide poli...

The final volumes of a project begun in 1921 by the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales to produce the first standard historical Welsh dictionary, these dictionaries present in alphabetical order the vocabulary of the Welsh language from the remnants of Old Welsh, through the abundant literature of the Medieval and Modern periods, to the explosion of vocabulary arising from the ever-increasing use of the language in all fields o...

Written to be accessible to a broad cross section of people, especially those without backgrounds in theology or science, "Christianity, Evolution and the Environment: Fitting It Together" provides a brief introduction to relationship between Christianity and science. In this book, the author tackles such contemporary issues as the rise of "anti-science, " widespread community misunderstandings of the methods and principles of science, the mor...