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"Religion and religious ideas have played a fundamental role in the shaping of Asian history, society, and cultural practices. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religious traditions and philosophies in China and Japan have evolved and intersected since the birth of Confucianism in China and the arrival of Buddhism in Japan. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to Tibet, the book concentrates on the post-fourteenth century, when the long-lasting political dynasties that transformed the political, social, and economic institutions of both countries came into being. It is these connections that the author is keen to highlight, and he does so to effect by using key moments, such as the Taiping Uprising and the Boxer Rebellion, to underscore the importance of religion in transforming the course of Asian history. Contemporary chapters reflect on the wartime deification of the Japanese emperor, Marxism as religion, and the persecution of the Dalai Lama"--

Main description: In den 1970er und frühen 1980er Jahren erlebte Italien die heftigste Konfrontation zwischen Staat und Terrorismus in allen westlichen Demokratien. Die liberale Republik und ihre pluralistische Gesellschaft wurden von links- und rechtsterroristischen Gewalttätern auf eine harte Bewährungsprobe gestellt. Wie nahm das politische Establishment diese Gefahr wahr? Gelang es dem italienischen Staat, den Terrorismus erfolgreich zu bekämpfen, ohne den verfassungsrechtlichen Rahmen zu verlassen? Tobias Hof analysiert erstmals umfassend die italienische Anti-Terrorismus-Politik während der "bleiernen Jahre", die einen maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die innenpolitische Entwicklung hatte. Sie förderte nicht nur die Annäherung zwischen der christdemokratischen und der kommunistischen Partei, sondern bot dem politischen System Italiens auch eine Chance, seine Legitimationskrise zu überwinden.

As a country's current development is path dependent, the rise of China and its strategic implications can only be understood in a historical context. Hence, the key to understanding contemporary China is the understanding of its past. So far there has been an absence of a comprehensive text dealing with Chinese economic history in the English language. An Economic History of Modern China fills this important gap, focusing on modern Chinese economic growth and comprehensively surveying the patterns of China's growth experience over the past 200 years, from the Opium wars to the present day. Key events are traced back to their foundations in history to explain their impact on China's modern economic growth