Modern Japan: A Historical Survey

Reducere. Integrating political events with cultural, economic, and intellectual movements, Modern Japan provides a balanced and authoritative survey of mode...

Reducere. Japanese historian Louis Perez brings Mikiso Hane's rich and beloved account of early Japanese history up-to-date in this thoroughly revised Second...

Reducere. The pursuit of style has prompted centuries of dramatic change in fashion--and author R. Turner Wilcox researched and documented it all in this com...

Reducere. From prehistoric garments to modern high-fashion designs, this unique survey traces the history of furs and fur accessories. R. Turner Wilcox, a fo...

Reducere. Shoes have come a long way in the thousands of years since primitive man first donned bark and animal skins. Originally used to protect feet from h...

A year after R. Turner Wilcox received rave reviews for her ultimate fashion reference, The Mode in Costume, she decided to zero in on one chic cat...

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

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Reducere. This is a railroad lover's book. The steel, steam, and dreams of a century of railroading in New Mexico are captured in 200 photographs and a crisp...

Reducere. A treasury of ethnic dress, this book ranges from the Amish of Pennsylvania to the Zulu of South Africa. Alphabetical entries cover more than 150 c...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Nihon VogueIllustration(s): 15 stitches, 10 lessons and 25 projects; color photos and diagramsNumber of page...

Reducere. Stimulating, thought-provoking study shows how abstract methods of pure mathematics can be used to systematize problem-solving techniques in applie...

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

A lush portrait introducing one of the most important Japanese artists of the Edo periodPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Frank FeltensNum...

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

Reducere. Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered...

First book-length investigation of modern Japanese political thought and IR with a focus on non-western and indigenous Asian practices of IR.

Reducere. The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist pra...

The essays collected here theorize the relation of unconscious fantasy and perversion to discourses of nation, identity, and history in Japan. By r...

DescriptionThis is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as ...

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The modern era of Japanese swords began with the Meiji restoration in 1868. The demand for new swords fell drastically, and by 1876, there was almo...

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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...

Reducere. Spanning the last 500 years, this exceptionally detailed and well-researched guide focuses primarily on the ways North American Indians have used p...

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

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Takaaki InuzukaIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorTranslator: Haruko LauriePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x...

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

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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Reducere. This bilingual book presents a generous selection of work by four distinguished twentieth-century poets who made significant contributions to the d...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Shinichi FukuiIllustration(s): 21 lessons; over 300 color illustrationsNumber of pages: 144Publication date:...

Reducere. Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics, Hardcover

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

Reducere. "Lucid and lyrical...a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization." --The Daily Telegraph In A History of Modern Japan, cult...

While the loss of sight may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) could thrive because of disability. The ...