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49 produkter
Rules of the Game
Jutland and British Naval Command
Häftad, 2015
214 kr
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Winner of the Longman's History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation after generation of British naval captains had been dreaming ever since of a 'new' Trafalgar - a …
Temperate Agroforestry Systems
Av Andrew Gordon, Steven M Newman m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
752 kr
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Agroforestry is a land use system that allows for the concurrent production of trees and agricultural crops and/or animals from the same piece of land. It has a rich history of development and has been practised in some parts of the world for more than 6,000 years. In 1997, CABI published the …
Admiral of the Narrow Seas
The Life of Bertram Ramsay
Inbunden, 2028
344 kr
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Bertram Ramsay has acquired almost mythical status in the history of the Second World War, firstly as the principal organizer of the Dunkirk evacuation and then as naval commander of the Allied invasion of Normandy - in the eyes of many, 'the organizer of victory'. But because Ramsay was killed in …
Rules of the Game
Jutland and British Naval Command
E-bok, 2015
133 kr
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Winner of the Longman's History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation after generation of British naval captains had been dreaming ever since of a 'new' Trafalgar - a …
Portraits Of The Japanese Workplace
Labor Movements, Workers, And Managers
Av Andrew Gordon, Mikiso Hane m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2510 kr
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In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan's most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?light and shadow? of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries. Kumazawa brings to life the intense combination …
Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690
Av James Daybell, Andrew Gordon
Häftad, 2019
811 kr
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Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century through to the Restoration. The essays collected here represent an important body of new work by a …
Portraits Of The Japanese Workplace
Labor Movements, Workers, And Managers
Av Kumazawa Makoto, Mark Selden m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
864 kr
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In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan''s most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?light and shadow? of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries. Kumazawa brings to life the intense combination …
Portraits Of The Japanese Workplace
Labor Movements, Workers, And Managers
Av Kumazawa Makoto, Mark Selden m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
883 kr
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In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan''s most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?light and shadow? of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries. Kumazawa brings to life the intense combination …
Postwar Japan as History
Häftad, 1993
331 kr
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Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors …
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan
Häftad, 1992
471 kr
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"Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan" examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can …
Fabricating Consumers
The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2011
729 kr
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Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change …
Postwar Japan as History
E-bok, 1993
553 kr
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Japan''s catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors …
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan
E-bok, 1991
553 kr
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Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan''s prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can …
Fabricating Consumers
The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan
E-bok, 2011
1266 kr
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Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine’s remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change …
Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain
Av Andrew Gordon, Bernhard Klein
Häftad, 2010
842 kr
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Mapping has become a key term in current critical discourse, describing a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the world, of synthesising cultural and geographical information, and of successfully navigating both physical and mental space. In this 2001 collection, an international team …
Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain
Av Andrew Gordon, Bernhard Klein
Inbunden, 2001
1872 kr
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Mapping has become a key term in current critical discourse, describing a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the world, of synthesising cultural and geographical information, and of successfully navigating both physical and mental space. In this 2001 collection, an international team …
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia
Av Merle Goldman, Andrew Gordon
Häftad, 2000
628 kr
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Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asiaaddresses provocative themes concerning the experience of particular nations and of East Asia as a whole. It explores the turbulent process of integrating Asian societies and political systems into a global order dominated by the West over the past …
Wages of Affluence
Labor and Management in Postwar Japan
Häftad, 2001
405 kr
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Andrew Gordon goes to the core of the Japanese enterprise system, the workplace, and reveals a complex history of contest and confrontation. The Japanese model produced a dynamic economy which owed as much to coercion as to happy consensus. Managerial hegemony was achieved only after a bitter …
Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan
Heavy Industry, 1853–1955
Häftad, 1988
208 kr
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The century-long process by which a distinct pattern of Japanese labor relations evolved is traced through the often turbulent interactions of workers, managers, and, at times, government bureaucrats and politicians. The author argues that, although by the 1920s labor relations had reached a stage …
Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain
Av James Daybell, Andrew Gordon
Inbunden, 2016
1169 kr
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The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures …
Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain
Av James Daybell, Andrew Gordon
E-bok, 2016
1357 kr
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The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures …
Portraits Of The Japanese Workplace
Labor Movements, Workers, And Managers
Av Andrew Gordon, Mikiso Hane m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
751 kr
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In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan's most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?light and shadow? of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries. Kumazawa brings to life the intense combination …
Ashio Riot of 1907
A Social History of Mining in Japan
Av Kazuo Nimura, Andrew Gordon
Häftad, 1998
295 kr
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In The Ashio Riot of 1907, Nimura Kazuo explains why the workers at the Ashio copper mine-Japan’s largest mining concern and one of the largest such operations in the world-joined together for three days of rioting against the Furukawa Company in February 1907. Exploring an event in labor history …
Our India Missions
A Thirty Year's History of the India Mission of the United Presbyterian Church
Av Andrew Gordon, Andrew Gordon
Inbunden, 2022
514 kr
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Our India Missions
A Thirty Year's History of the India Mission of the United Presbyterian Church
Av Andrew Gordon, Andrew Gordon
Häftad, 2022
393 kr
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Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1690
Av Andrew Gordon, James Daybell
E-bok, 2016
935 kr
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Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century through to the Restoration. The essays collected here represent an important body of new work by …
Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1690
Av Andrew Gordon, James Daybell
E-bok, 2016
956 kr
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Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century through to the Restoration. The essays collected here represent an important body of new work by …
Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England
Memorial Cultures of the Post Reformation
Häftad, 2016
997 kr
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The early modern period inherited a deeply-ingrained culture of Christian remembrance that proved a platform for creativity in a remarkable variety of forms. From the literature of church ritual to the construction of monuments; from portraiture to the arrangement of domestic interiors; from the …
