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  • Caste in Early Modern Japan

    Danzaemon and the Edo Outcaste Order

    by Timothy Amos ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    "Caste", a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship. This has not always been the case, and the term was often used among earlier generations of scholars, who introduced the Buraku problem to Western audiences. Amos argues that time for reappraisal is well overdue and that a combination of ideas, beliefs, and practices ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Revisiting Japan’s Restoration

    New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation

    Edited by Timothy Amos, Akiko Ishii ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and interpretations of the Restoration that showcase the strengths of the most recent interpretative trends in history writing on Japan while simultaneously offering new research pathways.On a scale probably never ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Handbook of Buraku Studies

    Edited by Timothy D. Amos ...
    Series series Handbooks on Japanese Studies
    This handbook explores the history, culture, and social challenges of Japan’s Burakumin through the multifaceted scholarship of current Buraku Studies. The handbook situates Buraku Studies by examining the origins of the Burakumin, from Japan’s medieval outcaste groups and their connections and continuities into the early modern social class system of Tokugawa Japan. The chapters also explore the ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Alternative Histories of Development in Japan and East Asia

    Unthinking Modernization, Recreating Lifeworlds

    Edited by Timothy D. Amos, Akiko Ishii, Samson Lim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book examines the history of development in East Asia in terms of material change and human-nature relations from the perspectives of people living in Asia in modern and pre-modern periods.By challenging the reader to “unthink” what modern development is, each chapter offers a case study which discovers and reconstructs indigenous forms of knowledge and local practice related to material ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart

    by John Amos Comenius, Timothy L. Price ...
    Narrated by Glenn Boychuk ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    The Labyrinth of the World is about a fellow named Pilgrim who treks through the world in order to find the best way to live, aided by two guides: Mr. Ubiquitous and Mr. Delusion. Pilgrim finds much to be concerned about in the world. Ultimately, he finds something he had not planned upon in his journey: The Paradise of the Heart. This original pilgrim allegory was penned 55 years before Pilgrim's ... Read more

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  • Modern Japan

    A Very Short Introduction

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
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    His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World

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