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Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Taipings -- Interlude: Post-Taiping "Restoration" -- Chapter 2: The Collapse of the Qing and the Republican Revolution -- Interlude: Post-revolutionary Disorder -- Chapter 3: The May Fourth Movement (1919) and Cultural Revolution -- Interlude: Uneven and Combined-China in the 1920s -- Chapter 4: Competing Revolutions in the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937) -- Interlude: The War of Resistance against Japan -- Chapter 5: The 1949 Revolution -- Interlude: The Invasion of Tibet (1959) -- Chapter 6: The Cultural Revolution -- Interlude: Assessing Mao, 1979-1989 -- Chapter 7: 1989 and Its Aftermath -- Interlude: Xinjiang 2009 -- Conclusion: 2019 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This article reflects the new focus of historiography between quantification and Oral History. Based on theoretical debates, it is shown how historiography is changing in context of new research fields, new topics, methods, sources and theoretical standpoints. Thus, this all can be understood as paradigm shift in historical research. The author focuses on methodology and historical sources, including its constituent issues and research questions. First, it should be asked what kind of impact technical innovations have on historiographical practice. Second, two practical "cornerstones of historiography" are presented: quantification and Oral History. They can be understood as opposite poles complementing each other in research practice in a fruitful way.

Main description: Understanding mental health from a religious, literary, and philosophical point?of?view represents a critical component in current research on alternative approaches to well?being, spiritually and physically. This volume contains a selection of papers drawn from a conference at The University of Arizona in May 2013 addressing all these issues from a variety of perspectives, inviting us to consider them especially through a historical lens.

This paper examines the relatively neglected rural history of Syria. It concentrates on the Hauran, a dry-farming region of hills and plains south of the Damascene oasis between the northern Jordan's tributaries and the eastern desert. Although the Hauran is today no longer a region of primary economic importance to Syria as it once was, it is of historical interest because it was the very first of greater Syria's outlying rural zones to be integrated into the developing modern Middle Eastern economy.The Hauran is, moreover, of comparative interest because it held a position in Syria's political economy then which bears many resemblances to the positions held by younger hinterland regions now. The parallels between the situation of the Hauran then and the Syrian north and northeast now, for example, are indeed many.

This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by addressing religion as an integral part of the city's cultural history. Berglund views Prague's cultural history in the broader context of religious change and secularization in 20th-century Europe. Based on detailed knowledge of sources, the monograph explores the interdisciplinary linkages between politics, architecture and theology in the building of symbolism and a "new mythology" of the first Czechoslovak republic (1918-1938). Berglund´s text provides an important service for understanding both Czech history as well as current Czech political debate. The author's method can be characterized as culture history, able to connect several disciplines, emphasizing common topic (religion, politics, symbolics). Modern Czech elites, superficially characterized as "ateistic", appears in a new light to be deeply religious, a transition from more traditional, (mostly) Catholic religiosity, to a concept of a new, modern, ethical religion. The study incorporates biographical research, focusing on three principal characters: Tomás Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first president; his daughter Alice Garrigue Masaryková, founding director of the Czechoslovak Red Cross; and Joze Plecnik, the Slovenian architect who directed the renovations of Prague Castle

1. The crimes of the century -- 2. Crime and the West -- 3. Hate crime -- 4. Policing and imprisonment -- 5. Conmen, swindlers, and dupes -- 6. Business and financial crime -- 7. Prohibitions -- 8. Sex crime -- 9. Political crime : scandal, sleaze, and corruption -- 10. Terrorists : rebels, radicals and freedom fighters, and criminals with a cause -- 11. Immigration and crime.

In recent years, scholars of modern and contemporary Chinese religion have turned their attention to the subject of "redemptive societies", a term coined by Prasenjit Duara in 2001 to refer to groups such as the Yiguandao, the Daoyuan, the Tongshanshe , the Wushanshe, and others which had a major socio-religious impact during the Republican period. Spiritually authoritative or sacred texts play a number of crucial roles within redemptive societies. First and foremost, of course, they record and codify a redemptive society's beliefs and rituals and are thus key sources for the analysis of these aspects of a specific religious system. As obvious as this may appear, such analyses have not been carried out for many of these texts, which more commonly serve as quarries in which to collect data on the organizational structure or social and political history of a particular group. Research that takes the doctrinal systems encoded in modern redemptive societies' sacred texts seriously has been fairly rare. We have therefore put together an international team of scholars from Europe, Taiwan, Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan to focus on the textual and contextual histories of redemptive societies, with an eye toward giving their past – and their future – the attention they deserve.