Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, Paperback

When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's mo...

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Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914 is a cultural and engineering history of railway building in Japan during the Meiji era. The importance of early ...

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This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan's rapid modernization.Publisher: Getty Trust Publication...

This book is about the losers of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Using sources ranging from essays by former To...

In 1868, samurai radicals overthrew the last shogun in the name of ancient Japanese ways. Then they took an opposite course, building a modern Japa...

Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan narrates forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and love between Victorian female traveller...

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The music and life of one of modernity's most prevalent figures through the compositions that shaped him, from a dazzling new writer of non-fiction...

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Re-encounter the music of Mozart through the compositions that made him one of modernity's most important figures.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s):...

Satie's music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of Light. This book situates Satie's work within the context and sonic environment of...

The book and accompanying cd consists of song, music and lore of the acclaimed Conamara tradition bearer, Colm O Caodhain (1893 - 1975) from Glinsc...

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Few public officials have provoked such intense controversy as Henry Kissinger. During his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations, he came to b...

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Covers the dramatic 15 years of Japanese Empire expansion.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): N S NashIllustration(s): 120 B&W illustrations...

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Narrates the dramatic events of Aurelians life and reign. Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title...

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This is a biography of one of the most unusual Byzantine emperors in Constantinople who reigned from 1347 to 1354, and subsequently spent thirty ye...

The answer is a tale of operatic proportions, sweeping across continents from the 1848 European revolutions to the civil wars in Mexico and the USA...

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The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries C. E. - Alicia Walker

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Dominic LievenNumber of pages: 528Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 169 x 240 x 48Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Reducere. Essays beginning at the time of her marriage to Leonard Woolf and ending just after the Armistice. More than half have not been collected previousl...

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