wyszukanych pozycji: 25
Japan's Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy
ISBN: 9781108748018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democracy. This crisis of democracy has stimulated searches for alternative ways of understanding and enacting politics. Against this background, Tessa Morris-Suzuki explores the long history of informal everyday political action in the Japanese context. Despite its seemingly inflexible and monolithic formal political system, Japan has been the site of many fascinating small-scale experiments in 'informal life politics': grassroots...
The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institution...
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153,95 zł |
East Asia Beyond the History Wars: Confronting the Ghosts of Violence
ISBN: 9780415637459 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. East Asia is now the world's economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan's military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no peace treaty has ever been signed to conclude the Korean War. For over a decade, the region's governments and non-government groups have sought to confront the ghosts of the past by developing... East Asia is now the world's economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, part... |
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779,55 zł |
Re-inventing Japan: Nation, Culture, Identity : Nation, Culture, Identity
ISBN: 9780765600820 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan.
This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Jap...
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285,78 zł |
The Korean War in Asia: A Hidden History
ISBN: 9781538111895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at the Korean War by considering the conflict from a Northeast Asian perspective. It highlights the connections of the war to earlier conflicts and examines its human impact on neighboring countries, It also considers the lasting consequences for the region's society and unsettled politics today.
This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at the Korean War by considering the conflict from a Northeast Asian perspective. It highlights the connec...
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432,17 zł |
Showa: An Inside History of Hirohito's Japan
ISBN: 9781780939667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Showa, Japanese for 'radiant peace', was the name given to Emperor Hirohito's reign at his accession in 1926. This was the beginning of a significant period of growth of militarism, the Pacific war and the phenomenal post-war economic expansion of Japan. The first book to present modern Japanese history through the eyes of individuals, Showa presents the experiences of three individuals born at the beginning of this age, giving a unique inside view of Japan's recent history. Their experiences include training as a suicide pilot, being a draft evader during the Pacific War, a leader... Showa, Japanese for 'radiant peace', was the name given to Emperor Hirohito's reign at his accession in 1926. This was the beginning of a significa... |
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929,99 zł |
Japanese Capitalism Since 1945: Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780873328340 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book introduces students of the Japanese economy to a broad range of critical contemporary Marxian analyses by Japanese economists. Each of the five essays - on economic policy, agriculture, big business, labour relations, and foreign trade and investment - is written by a specialist in the field. The introduction places the essays in the wider context of contrasting theories of Japanese economic development. While such writings constitute an important part of the economic literature in Japan, virtually none of the great body of Marxian writing on Japanese capitalism has heretofore been...
This book introduces students of the Japanese economy to a broad range of critical contemporary Marxian analyses by Japanese economists. Each of the f...
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218,22 zł |
Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War
ISBN: 9780742554412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the "return" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. Presented to the world as a humanitarian venture and conducted under the supervision of the International Red Cross, the scheme was actually the result of political intrigues involving the governments of Japan, North Korea, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The great majority of the Koreans who journeyed to North Korea in...
Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Co...
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612,70 zł |
On the Frontiers of History: Rethinking East Asian Borders
ISBN: 9781760463694 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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159,82 zł |
History of Japanese Economic Thought
ISBN: 9781138437067 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Economics, in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, Japanese thinkers had already developed, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a variety of interesting approaches to issues such as the causes of inflation, the value of trade, and the role of the state in economic activity. Tessa Morris-Suzuki provides the first comprehensive English language survey of the development of economic thought in Japan. She considers how the study of neo-classical and Keynesian economics was given new impetus by Japan's 'economic...
Economics, in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, Japanese thinkers had alr...
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935,46 zł |
Beyond Computopia
ISBN: 9781138863521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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249,41 zł |
Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era
ISBN: 9780521683104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This 2010 book shows how the Cold War played a decisive role in shaping Japan's migration controls, examining the origins of migration policy.
This 2010 book shows how the Cold War played a decisive role in shaping Japan's migration controls, examining the origins of migration policy.
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217,74 zł |
Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation
ISBN: 9780765600813 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan.
This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Jap...
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909,47 zł |
To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred-Year Journey Through China and Korea
ISBN: 9780810896215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Following in the footsteps of a writer, artist, and feminist who traveled the route a century ago, To the Diamond Mountains takes readers on a unique journey through China and North and South Korea. By probing the deep past of Northeast Asia at a present moment of profound change, this book offers a fresh perspective on the region's future.
Following in the footsteps of a writer, artist, and feminist who traveled the route a century ago, To the Diamond Mountains takes readers on a unique ...
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164,12 zł |
Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era
ISBN: 9780521864602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text offers a radical reinterpretation of postwar Japan's policies towards immigrants and foreign residents. Drawing on a wealth of historical material, it shows how the Cold War played a decisive role in shaping Japan's migration controls, shedding new light on the origins and dilemmas of migration policy in Japan.
This text offers a radical reinterpretation of postwar Japan's policies towards immigrants and foreign residents. Drawing on a wealth of historical ma...
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449,36 zł |
Japanese Capitalism Since 1945: Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780873325516 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book introduces students of the Japanese economy to a broad range of critical contemporary Marxian analyses by Japanese economists. Each of the five essays - on economic policy, agriculture, big business, labour relations, and foreign trade and investment - is written by a specialist in the field. The introduction places the essays in the wider context of contrasting theories of Japanese economic development. While such writings constitute an important part of the economic literature in Japan, virtually none of the great body of Marxian writing on Japanese capitalism has heretofore been...
This book introduces students of the Japanese economy to a broad range of critical contemporary Marxian analyses by Japanese economists. Each of the f...
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701,59 zł |
The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780521424929 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For decades, Japan has been at the cutting edge of much technology, becoming an industrial superpower along the way. However, it is not widely acknowledged that Japan's status as technological leader is the result of historical processes over centuries. This landmark book is the first general English-language history of technology in modern Japan. Impressive for its scope and insight, the book also considers the social costs of rapid technological change.
For decades, Japan has been at the cutting edge of much technology, becoming an industrial superpower along the way. However, it is not widely acknowl...
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173,65 zł |
The Korean War in Asia: A Hidden History
ISBN: 9781538111901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at the Korean War by considering the conflict from a Northeast Asian perspective. It highlights the connections of the war to earlier conflicts and examines its human impact on neighboring countries, It also considers the lasting consequences for the region's society and unsettled politics today.
This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at the Korean War by considering the conflict from a Northeast Asian perspective. It highlights the connec...
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196,94 zł |
History of Japanese Economic Thought
ISBN: 9780415071680 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Economics, in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Japan in the second half of the 19th century. However, Japanese thinkers had already developed, during the 17th and 18th centuries, a variety of approaches to issues such as the causes of inflation, the value of trade, and the role of the state in economic activity.
Economics, in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Japan in the second half of the 19th century. However, Japanese thinkers had already d...
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545,69 zł |
Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War
ISBN: 9780742554429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the "return" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. Presented to the world as a humanitarian venture and conducted under the supervision of the International Red Cross, the scheme was actually the result of political intrigues involving the governments of Japan, North Korea, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The great majority of the Koreans who journeyed to North Korea in...
Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Co...
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240,70 zł |
The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History
ISBN: 9781786637260 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Despite predictions of the "death of the past" and the "end of history," the past refuses to go away. In fact, the start of the twenty-first century has seen an upsurge of interest in popular representations of history on the large and small screen, and of impassioned political conflicts over rival understandings of the past. Historical responsibility and apology have become contentious topics of domestic politics and of international diplomatic relations, and memory a profitable commodity for sale to mass markets. Against this background, how do historians deal with the problems of the...
Despite predictions of the "death of the past" and the "end of history," the past refuses to go away. In fact, the start of the twenty-first century h...
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109,36 zł |