P. W. Preston

Political Cultural Developments in East Asia

Interpreting Logics of Change

Buch

This book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region and its component countries. The discussion considers the region and its countries in terms of their historical legacies (colonialism, war and the preoccupation with development) and argues that each country has constructed their own way of ordering political life, each created its own political logic. Arguing that it is an error to judge these countries' performance against the model of Europe or America, Preston discusses the era of expansionist colonialism, the episode of breakdown in hi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-137-57220-2
EAN: 9781137572202
Produktnummer: 19855740
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 308 S.
Masse: H21.8 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.5 cm 526 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 526

Über den Autor

P.W. Preston is Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He has lived and worked in East Asia and has published widely on the politics of this region and his own home country, England.