The politics of knowledge
Subtitle: area studies and the disciplines
By: edited by David L. Szanton.
Contributors: Szanton, David L., 1938-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: Area studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Latin American studies : theory and practice / Paul W. Drake and Lisa Hilbink; title: The Middle East in the past and future of social science / Timothy Mitchell; title: Area studies in search of Africa / Pearl T. Robinson; title: Japanese studies : the intangible act of translation / Alan Tansman; title: Soviet and post-Soviet area studies / Victoria E. Bonnell and George W. Breslauer; title: Eastern Europe or Central Europe? Exploring a distinct regional identity / Ellen Comisso and Brad Gutierrez; title: The transformation of contemporary China studies, 1977/2002 / Andrew G. Walder; title: South Asian studies : futures past / Nicholas B. Dirks; title: The development of Southeast Asian studies in the United States / John Bowen.