William Elliot Griffis (1843 – 1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo. After his return to the United States, he devoted himself to his research and writing on East Asia throughout his life. He authored 20 books about Japan and five books about Korea including, Corea: The Hermit Nation (1882), Corea, Without and Within: Chapters on Corean History, Manners and Religion (1885), The Unmannerly Tiger, and Other Korean Tales

Rutgers University’s Douglass Residential College is the only college for women that is nested within a major public research university in the United States. Although the number of women’s colleges has plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass is flourishing as it approaches its centennial in 2018. To explore its rich history, Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda H. Perrone examine the strategic transformation of Douglass over the past century in relation to continuin...

Este libro propone un análisis frente a la dicotomía entre la teoría clásica de la propiedad y el enfoque como su función social. Para ello se exploraron aspectos de la propiedad desde diferentes aproximaciones interdisciplinarias, tanto desde el análisis económico del derecho como desde la sociología, la antropología y los estudios de la ciencia y la tecnología, cuyos enfoques ponen el relieve en el carácter relacional de la propiedad y su importancia para la sociabilidad humana. Igualmen...