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  • Peace in the East

    An Chunggun's Vision for Asia in the Age of Japanese Imperialism

    by Yi Tae-Jin, Eugene Y. Park, Kirk W. Larsen, Frederick R. Dickinson, Makino Eiji, Franklin D. Rausch, Sasagawa Norikatsu, Suh Young-Hee0, Totsuka Etsuro1, Wang Yuanzhou2, Xu Yong3, Yamamuro Shin'ichi4 ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    On October 26, 1909, the Korean patriot An Chunggun assassinated the Japanese statesman Ito Hirobumi in Harbin, China. More than a century later, the ramifications of An’s daring act continue to reverberate across East Asia and beyond. This volume explores the abiding significance of An, his life, and his written work, most notably On Peace in the East (Tongyang p’yonghwaron), from a variety of ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930

    by Frederick R. Dickinson ...
    Series Book 39 - Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    Frederick R. Dickinson illuminates a new, integrative history of interwar Japan that highlights the transformative effects of the Great War far from the Western Front. World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930 reveals how Japan embarked upon a decade of national reconstruction following the Paris Peace Conference, rivalling the monumental rebuilding efforts in post-Versailles Europe. ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Beyond Versailles

    The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East Asia

    by Evan Dawley, G. Clinton Godart, Tze-ki Hon, Noriko Kawamura, Junghoon Lee, Tatiana Linkhoeva, Tadashi Nakatani, Chunling Peng, Torsten Weber, Tosh Minohara1, Frederick R. Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania2 ...
    This edited collection examines the effects of the Great War and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in East Asia. Contributors to this collection highlight how Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian groups and individuals actively sought to envision a global order in which the center of gravity lay in the Western Pacific, not the Northern Atlantic. ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

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  • Inside Central Asia

    A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran

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  • A Concise History of Japan

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    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine. The book begins by ... Read more

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  • Political Change in Southeast Asia

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    Southeast Asia is a vast and complex region, comprising countries with remarkably diverse histories and cultures. Jacques Bertrand provides a fresh and highly original survey of politics and political change in this area of the world. Against the backdrop of rapid economic development and social transformation in several countries, he explores why some countries have adopted democratic ... Read more

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  • Russia

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

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  • Deception in War

    The Art of the Bluff, the Value of Deceit, and the Most Thrilling Episodes of Cunning in Military History from the Trojan Horse to the Gulf War

    by Jon Latimer ...
    From the Trojan Horse to Gulf War subterfuge, this far-reaching military history examines the importance and ingenuity of wartime deception campaigns.The art of military deception is as old as the art of war. This fascinating account of the practice draws on conflicts from around the world and across millennia. The examples stretch from the very beginnings of recorded military history—Pharaoh ... Read more

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  • Techno-Orientalism

    Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

    by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Kenneth Hough, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Seo-Young Chu0, Abigail De Kosnik1, Jinny Huh2, Steve Choe3, Se Young Kim4, Dylan Yeats5, Julie Ha Tran6, Kathryn Allan7, Aimee Bahng8, Douglas S. Ishii9, Tzarina T. Prater0, Catherine Fung1, Charles Park2 ...
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  • The Emperor and the Spy

    The Secret Alliance to Prevent World War II

    by Katz S Stan ...
    Welcome to the intriguing world of an adventurous American Intelligence Agent, **Colonel Sidney Forrester Mashbir (**1891–1973), who spent the 1920s and 1930s in alliance with the Japanese Royal Family and other top leaders of Japan. Together, they delayed and made a valiant effort to prevent war between their nations.The Emperor and the Spy, is based on and inspired by the author's acquisition of ... Read more

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