wyszukanych pozycji: 6
The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration
ISBN: 9780226872377 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1862, fifty-one-year-old Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind by traveling to Kyoto, the old imperial capital. Peasant, poet, and local political activist, Taseko had come to Kyoto to support the nativist campaign to restore the Japanese emperor and expel Western "barbarians." Although she played a minor role in the events that led to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, her actions were nonetheless astonishing for a woman of her day. Honored as a hero even before her death, Taseko has since been adopted as a patron saint by rightist nationalists.
In telling Taseko's story, Anne Walthall... In 1862, fifty-one-year-old Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind by traveling to Kyoto, the old imperial capital. Peasant, poet, and local political...
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182,26 zł |
Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World Historyvolume 7
ISBN: 9780520254442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how...
Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked...
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165,69 zł |
Peasant Uprisings in Japan: A Critical Anthology of Peasant Histories
ISBN: 9780226872346 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Combining translations of five peasant narratives with critical commentary on their provenance and implications for historical study, this book illuminates the life of the peasantry in Tokugawa Japan. Combining translations of five peasant narratives with critical commentary on their provenance and implications for historical study, this book i...
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154,64 zł |
The Human Tradition in Modern Japan
ISBN: 9780842029124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and locality, whose lives collectively span the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Their stories present a counter-weight to the prevailing stereotypes, providing readers with depictions of real people through the records they have left - records that detail experiences and aspirations. The Human Tradition in Modern Japan offers a human-scale perspective that focuses on individuals, reconstitutes the meaning of people's experiences as...
The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family...
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198,83 zł |
Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan
ISBN: 9780520296275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the "child crisis." Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them. Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history of emotions,...
Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the "child crisis." Various media teem with intense debates about...
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187,78 zł |
Pre-Modern East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, Volume I: To 1800
ISBN: 9781133606512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Written by top scholars in the field, PRE-MODERN EAST ASIA: A CULTURAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL HISTORY, VOLUME I: To 1800, 3E delivers a comprehensive cultural, political, economic, and intellectual history of East Asia, while focusing on the narratives and histories of China, Japan, and Korea in a larger, global context. Full color inserts on such topics as food, clothing, and art objects illustrate the rich artistic heritage of East Asia. A range of primary source documents is included throughout, while intriguing biographical sketches highlight the lives of popular figures as well as...
Written by top scholars in the field, PRE-MODERN EAST ASIA: A CULTURAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL HISTORY, VOLUME I: To 1800, 3E delivers a comprehensive ...
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1457,88 zł |