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18th Century Japan
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 64.95The period of Japanese history before the advent of industrialisation and modernism is of tremendous interest. The essays in this collection show a fascination with the social context behind the development of aesthetics, drama, language, art and philosophy, whether it be the world of the pleasure quarters or the Shogun's court. more...
ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES IN MODERN JAPANESE HISTORY
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95How did ordinary people experience Japan's modern transformation? What role did people in local areas play in the making of modern Japan? How do studies of local politics help explain national events? The dominant account of modern Japanese history focuses on the nation-building that brought Japan into the modern world. After centuries of isolation,... more...
Above the Clouds
University of California Press 1992; US$ 12.95This latest work from Japanese-born anthropologist Takie Sugiyama Lebra is the first ethnographic study of the modern Japanese aristocracy. Established as a class at the beginning of the Meiji period, the kazoku ranked directly below the emperor and his family. Officially dissolved in 1947, this group of social elites is still generally perceived... more...
Adams The Pilot
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 190.00Previous biographies of the so-called First Englishman in Japan - most notably P.G. Rogers and Richard Baker ("The Needlewatchers") earlier this century - did not have access to the more recent research of scholars such as Derek Masarella, Anthony Farrington, Michael Cooper and Charles Boxer. This study offers an authoritative biography, as well as... more...
The Affair of the Madre de Deus
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 85.00The fact that the Portuguese opened up the Far East to European maritime enterprise is well known, but the prosperity to which their trade attained in that region is less so, as historians have tended to dwell on the English or Dutch activities. The period of Luso-Japanese trade is therefore of interest in more ways than one, and in particular the... more...
Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah
RAND Corporation 2011; US$ 9.95Examines the performance of the Israeli Defense Forces in Lebanon in 2006 and contrasts it with Israel's action against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in December 2008 and January 2009. more...
The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 68.95How do the Japanese and Okinawans remember Occupation? How is memory constructed and transmitted? Michael Molasky explores these questions through careful, sensitive readings of literature from mainland Japan and Okinawa. This book sheds light on difficult issues of war, violence, prostitution, colonialism and post-colonialism in the context of the... more...
Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 34.00This illuminating study examines the role of archaeology in the formation of the modern Japanese nation and the processes by which archaeological practice is shaped by national discourse. Exploring the close interrelationship between archaeology, society and modernity, it helps explain why we do archaeology in the way that we do. more...
At Home in Japan
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 21.95At Home in Japan tells the true story of a foreign woman who has been, for 30 years, the housewife, custodian and chatelaine of a 350-year-old farmhouse in rural Japan. This astonishing book traces a circular path, from the basic physical details of life in the house and village, through relationships with family, neighbors and the natural and supernatural... more...









