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18 produkter
A Concise History of Japan
Häftad, 2015
374 kr
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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 …
Lost Wolves of Japan
Häftad, 2008
517 kr
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Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing …
Family History of Illness
Memory as Medicine
E-bok, 2018
610 kr
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While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, “Do you have a family history of illness?”—a standard and deceptively simple question that for Walker, a professional historian, took on additional meaning and spurred him to investigate his family’s medical past. In this …
Toxic Archipelago
A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
E-bok, 2011
524 kr
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Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan …
Lost Wolves of Japan
E-bok, 2009
520 kr
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Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing …
Toxic Archipelago
A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
Häftad, 2011
410 kr
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Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago.During the nineteenth century, Japan …
Conquest of Ainu Lands
Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800
Häftad, 2006
289 kr
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This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu - the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago - at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. …
Conquest of Ainu Lands
Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800
E-bok, 2001
482 kr
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This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu—the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago—at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. …
Japan at Nature's Edge
The Environmental Context of a Global Power
Av Ian Jared Miller, Ian Jared Miller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
761 kr
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Japan at Nature’s Edge is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan’s history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan’s role in global environmental transformation and how …
Oceanic Japan
The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History
Av David R. Armitage, Gregory Clancey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
869 kr
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Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains …
A Concise History of Japan
Inbunden, 2015
1559 kr
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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 …
Yukikaze's War
The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific
Inbunden, 2024
274 kr
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Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armaments, navigation, training, and even indoctrination, illustrating the daily realities of war for …
Concise History of Japan
E-bok, 2015
411 kr
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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 …
Concise History of Japan
E-bok, 2015
420 kr
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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 …
Historia de Japón
E-bok, 2017
147 kr
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La presente obra nos ofrece un recorrido por la historia de Japón desde la perspectiva que el nuevo periodo que en el que vivimos –lo que muchos geólogos han dado en llamar el Antropoceno– da al historiador de una nación sometida por igual a los cambios históricos y a los naturales. Desde la remota …
Family History of Illness
Memory as Medicine
Inbunden, 2018
625 kr
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While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, “Do you have a family history of illness?”—a standard and deceptively simple question that for Walker, a professional historian, took on additional meaning and spurred him to investigate his family’s medical past. In this …
Lost Wolves of Japan
Inbunden, 2005
1501 kr
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Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing …
Japan at Nature's Edge
The Environmental Context of a Global Power
Av Ian Jared Miller, Julia Adeney Thomas m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
328 kr
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Japan at Nature’s Edge is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan’s history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan’s role in global environmental transformation and how …
