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  • Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History

    Edited by Sven Saaler, Christopher W. A. Szpilman ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History is a concise overview of modern Japanese history from the middle of the nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. Written by a group of international historians, each an authority in his or her field, the book covers modern Japanese history in an accessible yet comprehensive manner. The subjects featured in the book range from the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Pan-Asianism

    A Documentary History, 1920–Present, Volume 2

    Edited by Sven Saaler, Christopher W. A. Szpilman ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This second volume in a two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentaries. The book argues that Pan-Asianism, often—though unfairly—associated with the Yellow Peril, has been a powerful political and ideological force in modern Asia. It has shaped national identities and strongly influenced the development of ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History

    Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders

    Edited by Sven Saaler, J. Victor Koschmann ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    Regionalism has played an increasingly important role in the changing international relations of East Asia in recent decades, with early signs of integration and growing regional cooperation. This in-depth volume analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of a regional order and a regional identity in East Asia. It explores the ideology of Pan-Asianism as a predecessor of ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Pan-Asianism

    A Documentary History, 1850–1920, Volume 1

    Edited by Sven Saaler, Christopher W. A. Szpilman ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This first volume in a two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentaries. The book argues that Pan-Asianism, often—though unfairly—associated with the Yellow Peril, has been a powerful political and ideological force in modern Asia. It has shaped national identities and strongly influenced the development of ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

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  • Inventing Japan

    1853-1964

    by Ian Buruma ...
    Series series Modern Library Chronicles
    In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that ... Read more

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  • Modern Japan

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Goto-Jones ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all the way through to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques. In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it ... Read more

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  • Japan In World History

    by James L. Huffman ...
    Japan in World History ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of more recent times, when Japan modernized ferociously, turned imperialist, lost a world war, then became the world's second largest economy--and its greatest foreign aid ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Japan

    A Short History

    by Mikiso Hane ...
    What is a shogun? Who were the samurai and what is the warrior code? What lies behind the Japanese work ethic? From the ancient tea ceremony to the boom and subsequent downturn of its economic prosperity, this uniquely concise introduction to Japan and its history surveys nearly 10,000 years of society, culture, economics and politics. Balancing economic and political information with new insights ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Making of Modern Japan

    by Marius B. Jansen ...
    Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience. ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Japan Rising

    The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose

    by Kenneth Pyle ...
    Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles of the 21st century, critical questions arise about its motivations. What are the driving forces that influence how Japan will act in the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The China Questions

    Critical Insights into a Rising Power

    Edited by Jennifer Rudolph, Michael Szonyi ...
    “Cuts through the cacophony of information, misinformation, and nonsense on China that circulates in our modern world to give us reliable answers to crucial questions… Should be on the shelf of anyone seeking to understand this fast-rising superpower.”—Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of ChinaAfter years of isolation, China is now center stage as an economic and global power, but its rise has ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Re-inventing Japan

    Nation, Culture, Identity

    by Tessa Morris-Suzuki ...
    This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan. ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD