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  • Public Interest and State Legitimation

    Early Modern England, Japan, and China

    de Wenkai He ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology
    How were state formation and early modern politics shaped by the state's proclaimed obligation to domestic welfare? Drawing on a wide range of historical scholarship and primary sources, this book demonstrates that a public interest-based discourse of state legitimation was common to early modern England, Japan, and China. This normative platform served as a shared basis on which state and society ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State

    England, Japan, and China

    de Wenkai He ...
    The rise of modern public finance revolutionized political economy. As governments learned to invest tax revenue in the long-term financial resources of the market, they vastly increased their administrative power and gained the ability to use fiscal, monetary, and financial policy to manage their economies. But why did the modern fiscal state emerge in some places and not in others? In ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • A Short History of Japan

    From samurai to Sony

    de Curtis Andressen ...
    New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a comprehensive, readable history of the land of the Rising Sun, from its ancient origins to its fascinating present.Japan is a country of contradictions and extremes. It is a country of age-old practices and cutting edge technology, strong martial traditions and refined artistic accomplishments. Few countries have been the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Modern Japan

    A Very Short Introduction

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • To Stand with the Nations of the World

    Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History

    de Mark Ravina ...
    The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied best practices from around the world, building a powerful and modern Japanese nation with the help of European and American advisors. While ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

  • A History of Japan

    From Stone Age to Superpower

    de K. Henshall ...
    In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japan's progress through its entire history to its current status as an economic, technological, and cultural superpower. A key factor is a pragmatic determination to succeed. Little-known facts are also brought to light, and the latest findings used. ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

  • Sources of Japanese Tradition

    1600 to 2000

    Edición de Carol Gluck, Arthur Tiedemann, Wm. Theodore De Bary ...
    Series series Introduction to Asian Civilizations
    Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from the eighteenth century to the post-World War II period. Now greatly expanded to include the entire twentieth century, and beginning in 1600, Sources of Japanese Tradition presents writings from modern ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • The Economic History of China

    From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

    de Richard von Glahn ...
    China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared some of the features, ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • East Asia Before the West

    Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute

    de David Kang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown more powerful, the atmosphere around them has ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Peasants and Workers in Nepal

    100% Pure Adrenaline

    de D.Snddon ...
    Series Libro 1 - Surf Rangers
    The fieldwork on which this collection of essays on peasants and workers in Nepal is based was undertaken in the mid-1970s, by an international team associated with the Overseas Development Group at the University of East Anglia. The fieldwork also gave rise to several other publications, including Nepal in Crisis and The Struggle for Basic Needs in Nepal (both now re-published by Adroit ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Small Town Capitalism in Western India

    Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960

    de Douglas E. Haynes ...
    Series Libro 20 - Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
    This book charts the history of artisan production and marketing in the Bombay Presidency from 1870 to 1960. While the textile mills of western India's biggest cities have been the subject of many rich studies, the role of artisan producers located in the region's small towns have been virtually ignored. Based upon extensive archival research as well as numerous interviews with participants in the ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Protest with Chinese Characteristics

    Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty

    de Ho-fung Hung ...
    The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung Hung charts an evolution of Chinese dissent that stands apart from Western trends.Hung samples from mid ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD