Authors:Erich Kolig, Vivienne SM. Angeles, Sam Wong,
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: asia, aup, icas, publications, globalism, nationalism, crossroad, civilisations, ethnicity, identity
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 9089641270
ISBN-13: 9789089641274

The contributors to this timely volume discuss the role that ethnicity, nationalism, and the effects of globalization have played in the emergence of new identities in Asia. Challenging Samuel Huntington’s popular yet controversial thesis of the “clash of civilizations,” the essays examine communities in Bhutan, China, India, Japan, the Philippines, and New Zealand, and reveal how new, amalgamated identities have materialized as a result of these communities’ willingness to adapt to the changing economic, political, and social climates brought on by globalization.

Author: Aptin Khanbaghi
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: muslim, abstracts, civilizations, civilisations, encylcopedias
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0748639705
ISBN-13: 9780748639700

Encylcopedias About Muslim Civilisations is a reference catalogue of two hundred annotated bibliographies and abstracts of encyclopedias published during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Listed materials are available in English, Arabic, and Turkish, and truly represent the diversity of Muslim societies. This volume enables and reinforces communication between scholars and institutions across Muslim contexts, in which a language barrier has often prevented the sharing of knowledge and information.