Meiji Restoration Losers. Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan, Paperback - Michael Wert

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...

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

This book explores the impact in Japan of the rise of global coffee chains and the associated coffee culture. Based on extensive original research,...

Reducere. The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shatterin...

Reducere. DescriptionFor Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point fr...

Exploring a tumultuous time in Japanese 19th-century history, when the country began to emerge from self-imposed exile, this study profiles activis...

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...

The first comprehensive history in English of modern Japanese design.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Sarah TeasleyNumber of pages: 272Publicati...

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

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

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

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

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Reducere. With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 3 Maps; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, black and white;...

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...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David (Kyushu University, Japan) WeissNumber of pages: 256Collection: Bloomsbury Shinto StudiesPubli...

Reducere. Following a period of strict isolationism from the West, Japan began a series of modernization efforts, starting in the Meiji Restoration, that tra...

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

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the ...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated wri...

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, village...

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DescriptionThis significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a "parallel modernism" that was visually similar to Euroamerican modern...

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

DescriptionBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline...

Reducere. Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of par...

Reducere. Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics, Hardcover

You too can develop a better, sharper memory using the exercises in this book. From improving short-term memory to using repetition and from techni...

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the ...

Memory forensics provides cutting edge technology to help investigate digital attacks Memory forensics is the art of analyzing computer memory (RAM...

This book analyzes contemporary Japanese politics, charting the return of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's domestic political dominance and his economic...

Although religious fundamentalism is often thought to be confined to monotheistic 'religions of the book', this study examines the emergence of a f...

Reducere. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai...

DescriptionIn an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women--mostly Korean women forced into...

Reducere. The stories collected here were written over the past seven years for a monthly Japan Times column called The Living Past. They range from earliest...

Reducere. DescriptionThis award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall of the modern family in Japan. Combini...

From the 1860s through to the early 20th century the rise of Japonisme and the Art Nouveau movement meant that few could ignore or resist the obses...

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism ...

A tuba player without a tuba and his jellyfish-imitating sister cope with their father's disappearance in a middle-grade novel both hilarious and m...