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“stefan tanaka”

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  • Across Cultural Borders

    Historiography in Global Perspective

    de Arif Dirlik, Andreas Eckert, Michael Gottlob, Wang Hui, Maghan Keita, Gabriele Lingelbach, Jochen Meissner, Matthias Middell, Jörn Rüsen, Stefan Tanaka, Q Edward Wang ...
    This innovative work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess, but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditional national focus of historiography, the book offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • New Times in Modern Japan

    de Stefan Tanaka ...
    New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock became standard timekeeping devices, and society adapted to the abstractions inherent in modern notions of time. ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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  • How To Be a Tudor

    A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

    de Ruth Goodman ...
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA New York Times Book Review Editors Choice SelectionAn erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, "Goodman's latest…is a revelation" (New York Times Book Review).On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Vietnam, Now

    A Reporter Returns

    de David Lamb ...
    When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau and in the midst of a country on the move, as it progresses toward a free-market economy and divorces itself from the restrictive, isolationist ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The New Koreans

    The Story of a Nation

    de Michael Breen ...
    Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture to global attention.Who are the Koreans? What are they like? The New Koreans examines how they have been ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Night Battles

    Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    de Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Traducido por John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi ...
    A remarkable tale of witchcraft, folk culture, and persuasion in early modern Europe.Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order to protect their ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Crisis of Global Modernity

    Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future

    de Prasenjit Duara ...
    Series series Asian Connections
    In this major new study, Prasenjit Duara expands his influential theoretical framework to present circulatory, transnational histories as an alternative to nationalist history. Duara argues that the present day is defined by the intersection of three global changes: the rise of non-western powers, the crisis of environmental sustainability and the loss of authoritative sources of what he terms ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Making of the "Rape of Nanking"

    History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States

    de Takashi Yoshida ...
    On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army attacked and captured the Chinese capital city of Nanjing, planting the rising-sun flag atop the city's outer walls. What occurred in the ensuing weeks and months has been the source of a tempestuous debate ever since. It is well known that the Japanese military committed wholesale atrocities after the fall of the city, massacring large numbers of Chinese ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Book of My Nights

    de Li-Young Lee ...
    Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity.Marketing Plans:o ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Snow Lion and the Dragon

    China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama

    de Melvyn C. Goldstein ...
    Tensions over the "Tibet Question"—the political status of Tibet—are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict? Can the two sides come to an acceptable compromise? In this thoughtful analysis, distinguished professor ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity

    The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Yuan Dynasty (907 - 1368)

    de Jing Liu ...
    Series Libro 3 - Understanding China Through Comics
    This fun, comic-style series that explores China's relationship with its barbarian neighbors. The Mongols!Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics series answers these questions and more.The third volume of the Understanding China Through Comics series, Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Moved by the Past

    Discontinuity and Historical Mutation

    de Eelco Runia ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what came before. Moved by the Past radically breaks with this tradition of predating the past, incites us to fully acknowledge the discontinuous nature of ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD