Empire careers

Empire careersThis book examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service1854 1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. Looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and how these factors were influenced by the changing political context.

this book offers a practical and reader-friendly introduction to the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century

An analysis of the International Labour Organization's ground-breaking global Treaty on eliminating violence and harassment in the world of work and the ten-year campaign that led to its enactment from three authors who each played a key role in the campaign and the negotiation of the Convention

"A Game at Chess" was a nine days' wonder

Mme Arnould-Plessey

philosophers

Through a sustained focus on the figure of the dandy

the half-blood girl is caught between the world of her father

at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem

and future of our planet

This short primer traces the origins of the concept of the living wage and seeks to explain its current rise in fortune as an economic instrument with a social objective

This provides an impetus to review a particular area based on funda-mental issues and the state of the art

offer important perspectives on contemporary French ideas about national identity