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  • Japan on Display

    Photography and the Emperor

    by Morris Low ...
    Series series Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
    Sixty years on from the end of the Pacific War, Japan on Display examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime. Much of this representation was aided by the phenomenon of photography.The introduction and development of photography in the nineteenth century ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan

    A Trip to the Reactor

    by Morris Low ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores how Japanese views of nuclear power were influenced not only by Hiroshima and Nagasaki but by government, business and media efforts to actively promote how it was a safe and integral part of Japan’s future. The idea of “atoms for peace” and the importance of US-Japan relations were emphasized in exhibitions and in films. Despite the emergence of an anti-nuclear movement, the ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Asian Masculinities

    The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan

    Edited by Kam Louie, Morris Low ...
    This book shows how East Asian masculinities are being formed and transformed as Asia is increasingly globalized. The gender roles performed by Chinese and Japanese men are examined not just as they are lived in Asia, but also in the West. The essays collected here enhance current understandings of East Asian identities and cultures as well as Western conceptions of gender and sexuality. While ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Great Shark Egg Case Hunt

    by Kasey Whitelaw ...
    Illustrated by Sylvia Morris ...
    It’s time to go on an egg hunt. But not a chocolate egg hunt, or a chicken egg hunt – we’re going on a shark egg case hunt!Some sharks and their close relatives lay eggs, which are protected in egg cases that come in lots of shapes and sizes. Once a baby shark has wriggled out, these egg cases wash up on beaches around the world just waiting to be found.Join our citizen scientists as they enjoy a ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Urban Modernity

    Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution

    by Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler, Robert H. Kargon, Morris Low ...
    How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • East Asia Beyond the History Wars

    Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

    by Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y. Tsu ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • World's Fairs on the Eve of War

    Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937–1942

    by Robert Kargon, Morris Fraser Low, Arthur Molella, Karen Ann Fiss ...
    Since the first world's fair in London in 1851, at the dawn of the era of industrialization, international expositions served as ideal platforms for rival nations to showcase their advancements in design, architecture, science and technology, industry, and politics. Before the outbreak of World War II, countries competing for leadership on the world stage waged a different kind of war—with ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Vanessa R. Schwartz ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
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    $7.19 CAD

  • Practicing Utopia

    An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement

    by Rosemary Wakeman ...
    The typical town springs up around a natural resource—a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor—or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with “new towns,” which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren’t a new thing—ancient Phoenicians named their colonies Qart Hadasht, or New ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Architecture and Capitalism

    1845 to the Present

    Edited by Peggy Deamer ...
    Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will find have dealt with diverse but surprisingly familiar economic issues. Told through case studies, the narrative ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Concrete and Culture

    A Material History

    by Adrian Forty ...
    Despite its ancient Roman origins, concrete is considered the ultimate modern material, used everywhere in construction today: the equivalent of three tonnes of concrete per person on the planet is produced each year. Used in our pavements, roads, tunnels and walls, concrete surrounds us wherever we go and polarizes opinion, provoking intense loathing in some and fervent passion in others.Concrete ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD

  • Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction

    Creating the modern townscape

    Edited by John Pendlebury, Erdem Erten, Larkham Peter ...
    The history of post Second World War reconstruction has recently become an important field of research around the world; Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction is a provocative work that questions the orthodoxies of twentieth century design history.This book provides a key critical statement on mid-twentieth century urban design and city planning, focused principally upon the period ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD