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9 produkter
Merchant's Tale
Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan
Inbunden, 2017
1152 kr
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In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chuemon left his old life behind. Chuemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan's 1853 "opening" …
Merchant's Tale
Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan
Häftad, 2020
289 kr
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In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan’s 1853 “opening” …
Koume’s World
The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration
Inbunden, 2023
1385 kr
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Winner, 2026 Modern Japan History Association Book PrizeKawai Koume (1804–1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in the provincial castle town of Wakayama. She was an eyewitness to many of the key events leading up to the …
Koume’s World
The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration
Häftad, 2023
352 kr
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Winner, 2026 Modern Japan History Association Book PrizeKawai Koume (1804–1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in the provincial castle town of Wakayama. She was an eyewitness to many of the key events leading up to the …
Assembled in Japan
Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer
Häftad, 2000
428 kr
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"Assembled in Japan" investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. Contrary to mainstream interpretation, Simon Partner discovers that behind the meteoric rise of Sony, Matsushita, Toshiba, and other electrical goods companies …
Toshie
A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan
Häftad, 2004
315 kr
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Sakaue Toshie was born on August 14, 1925, into a family of tenant farmers and day laborers in the hamlet of Kosugi. The world she entered was one of hard labor, poverty, dirt, disease, and frequent early death. By the 1970s, that rural world had changed almost beyond recognition. "Toshie" is the …
Mayor of Aihara
A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925
Häftad, 2009
271 kr
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Aizawa Kikutaro (1866-1963) was born into the wealthiest family in Hashimoto, a small agricultural village specializing in wheat and silk. By 1925, the village was undergoing rapid commercial development, residents were commuting to factory and office jobs in cities, and, after serving as mayor for …
Assembled in Japan
Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer
E-bok, 2000
503 kr
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Assembled in Japan investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. Contrary to mainstream interpretation, Simon Partner discovers that behind the meteoric rise of Sony, Matsushita, Toshiba, and other electrical goods companies …
Bull City Survivor
Standing Up to a Hard Life in a Southern City
Av Simon Partner, Emma Johnston
Häftad, 2013
259 kr
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Emma Johnston (a pseudonym) is an African American resident of Durham, North Carolina, whose son was brutally murdered in 2007. Combining the voices of Emma and her coauthor Simon Partner, a professor at Duke University, the book recounts the postwar history of one of the South's fastest-growing …
