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Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon
ISBN: 9780822345190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously tracking specific words in specific settings frequently leads in unexpected directions and alters conventional depictions of global modernity.
Such words as security in Brazil,... On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Schola...
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462,54 zł |
Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon
ISBN: 9780822345367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously tracking specific words in specific settings frequently leads in unexpected directions and alters conventional depictions of global modernity.
Such words as security in Brazil,... On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Schola...
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124,68 zł |
Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period
ISBN: 9780691008127 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the talk and thought of the late... Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people... |
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246,17 zł |
Showa: The Japan of Hirohito
ISBN: 9780393310641 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The death of Emperor Hirohito marked the end of Japan's Showa era. This collection of original essays on Japan's history and culture in the 20th century provides a mix of American and Japanese perspectives on Showa. It explores the strengths of the Japanese economy, the issue of democracy and Japan's political culture, Japan's achievements in technology and the arts and its relationship with other nations and the United States.
The death of Emperor Hirohito marked the end of Japan's Showa era. This collection of original essays on Japan's history and culture in the 20th centu...
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117,43 zł |