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This is the first history of Mongolia available in English which benefits from access to historic data that only became available following the collapse of the socialist regime in 1990. Accordingly, it highlights the role of international politics, especially the former Soviet Union, Russia, ...
€81.00$105.00
Ukiyo-e Explained is the first integrated study to show how ukiyo-e is art but also social history, culture and craft. This study illuminates new pathways to a greater appreciation of ukiyo-e by addressing the environments and conditions under which the artists worked, together with the factors ...
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This important new study focusing on the ultranationalist regimes in Germany and Japan during the 1930s and 1940s examines in biographical format the roles played by individuals significantly involved in the drive for global hegemony. It employing a considerable range of new source materials and ...
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Complementing other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women writers by locating and creating ‘space’ for Japan is missing within recent critical discourses on travel writing, it examines narratives of women writers who travelled to Japan from the mid-1850s onwards, and became a ...
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A considerable amount of writing has been published on Japan at war in WWII. Scholars have been revisiting the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5. This volume examines Japan’s twentieth-century approach to war and militarism in a wider perspective, bringing hitherto unexamined new themes and ...
€1,499.00$2,085.00
Western Journalists on Japan, China and Greater East Asia, 1897-1956, Series 1: Japan 1897-1942, offers a representative selection of Western and Asian journalism and memoir with a focus on Japan as a nation and on Japan's agenda in East and South-east Asia.
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A charming memoir by Yuki Yoshida, wife of Shigeru Yoshida who became Japan’s post-war prime minister of national reconstruction. Includes fascinating observations on diplomatic life, visits to the English countryside, friendship with Mrs Neville Chamberlain, visit to UK of Prince and Princess ...
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This first in-depth study in English of one of Japan’s popular historians and a well-known journalist of the Meiji and Taish periods challenges the conventional view that Yamaji Aizan was essentially a ‘nationalist’ at heart eager to see Japan expand into Asia and a supporter of the colonization ...