Male Colors. The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan, Hardback - Gary Leupp

Based on a wealth of literary and historical documentation, this study places Tokugawa homosexuality in a global context, exploring its implication...

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

Spanning the fields of book history, travel literature, map history, and visual culture, Printing Landmarks provides a new perspective on Tokugawa-...

A radical reappraisal of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, by a young historian described as 'the best thing to happen to ancient history for decade...

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ogimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai she had served as ...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingOn October 21, 1600, two massive Japanese armies, totaling an estimated 200, 000 sold...

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...

The Construction of Identity in Saul Bellow's and Philip Roth's Major Novels - Anca Popa

Climate change is increasingly acknowledged as a security issue. But how exactly is 'security' understood? McDonald identifies different accounts o...

Publisher: Epfl PressAuthor(s): Roberto GargianiNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 253 x 176 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. In the centuries preceding the American Civil War, the large wooden sailing ship was the mainstay of the world's navies. Then, in the spring of 186...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis special re-print edition of William Cullen's book "A Treatise on the Construction of Horizontal and Vertical Water Wheels" is a his...

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scienti...

Investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and h...

Cutting-edge research on personal ornaments from archaeological contexts around the world.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/w and colourNumb...

Embraces reproductive justice for all women, but challenge mainstream legal and political solutions based on protecting free choice via neutral gov...

Reducere. This book examines the haunting, sad, and lively depths of the Japanese soul by interpreting some of major themes in fairy tales. A Japanese Jungia...

DescriptionIn Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese Am...

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Reducere. This Book provides a How-To Guide for the novice gun builder as-well-as the experienced gunsmith in the construction of six of the more prominent t...

As we interact online, we create new kinds of community and knowledge. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as so...

Taking a qualitative approach based on original case studies, this book offers a detailed overview of the contemporary media system in Malta.Publis...

This work addresses the global-local tension evident in much work on development issues, through the example of fresh food markets in Papua New Gui...

DescriptionThis myth-busting book shows large companies can construct a strategy, system, and culture of innovation that creates sustained growth. ...

An exploration of the impact of institutionalization in the lives of Canadian families.

Buildings can shape our lives, improve our health, and transform society. Academic histories of architecture and medicine overlook the importance o...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Agnieszka KoscianskaTranslator: Marta RozmyslowiczNumber of pages: 268Publication date: 2021Dimension...

DescriptionIs it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might suc...

The groundbreaking examination of the construction of sexual identity -- now updated to reflect the latest research.Why do some people prefer heter...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): E.C.H KeskitaloNumber of pages: 298Collection: Studies in International RelationsPublication date: 2011Di...

Publisher: ScribnerAuthor(s): Roland EnnosNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 28Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farm...