Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire, Paperback - David R. Ambaras

DescriptionThis major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate ...

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From a Coast to Coast AM insider, a mind-expanding exploration of sleep disorders and unusual dream states--the scientific explanations and the par...

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This volume offers responses to the view that migration is disruptive of national heritage. It investigates the empathy and mediation migratory aes...

This volume's contributors examine the perceptions of the staggering refuge and migration crisis in Europe, demonstrating how it stems from migrant...

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As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other c...

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DescriptionDuring his campaign for the presidency, one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that he would build a "great great wall" on the bor...

Reducere. In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia Garc a-Pe a explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominica...

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DescriptionThe first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeois...

The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timePublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): David AndersonIllustra...

Provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Strea...

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For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inco...

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A narrative history of Roman Britain. From the rebellious chiefs and druids who led native British resistance, to the experiences of the Roman mili...

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A memorable memoir about childhood in India, by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten. A wonderful evocation of a magical setting as se...

Reducere. Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, ...

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Exposes the policies that have led to American imperialism and the massive military deployment that accompanies it, suggesting that the US could su...

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With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff has expanded upon and updated The People's Emperor, his study o...

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Reducere. In the best traditions of literary journalism, Bastard Republic takes us inside two of the defining developments of the 20th century--the collapse ...

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At the end of the First World War, British imperial power was at an all-time low. That was until a ragtag band of visionaries, including Winston Ch...

Reducere. As the final battle approaches a sellsword, a spy, and a general must find unlikely and dangerous allies in order to turn the tides of war in the l...

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In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric...

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