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Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000
ISBN: 9780312239152 / Angielski / Miękka / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 explores, through a combination of narrative and analysis, the changes in the political process which lay behind Japan's transformation into a modern nation state; its successive turn toward militarism, fascism, and the Pacific War; and the imposition of a fully democratic constitution. Sims examines closely such central topics as the Meiji renovation, samurai modernisers, the rise of liberal political parties, the Meiji constitution, 'Taisho democracy', the wartime changes in the political system, postwar reforms and the...
Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 explores, through a combination of narrative and analysis, the changes in the politi...
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221,90 zł |
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Emperor and Nation in Japan: Political Thinkers of the Tokugawa Period
ISBN: 9780313231056 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study attempts to explain the development of Tokugawa-period political attitudes, as shown in the writings of the major thinkers of the time and as exemplified in the life of a nineteenth-century samurai. Emphasis is placed on attitudes toward emperor and nation, a subject that also involved the role of the Bakufu, or Tokugawa shogunate government.
This study attempts to explain the development of Tokugawa-period political attitudes, as shown in the writings of the major thinkers of the time a... |
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379,95 zł |
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Japan's Emergence as a Global Power
ISBN: 9780313299728 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Out of the ashes of its defeat in World War II, Japan arose to become the foremost economic power in the East Asia and a major player on the world economic stage. How did it do this? This work provides a concise summary and analysis of Japan's emergence as a global economic power. This guide discusses the growth of Japan as an unconventional global power based on the strength of its economy and the softening of its economy in the 1990s. Six topical essays are supported by a timeline of events in postwar Japan, biographical profiles of key players, the text of important primary documents, a... Out of the ashes of its defeat in World War II, Japan arose to become the foremost economic power in the East Asia and a major player on the world ... |
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231,05 zł |
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Daily Life in Early Modern Japan
ISBN: 9780313312014 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What did common people do in their normal lives in 18th century Japan? What kind of work did they do? What did they eat? What tools did they use? What was normal and natural for them? Use this engaging reference resource to find the answers to these and many other questions concerning the details of living in this culture during this time period. Visit Japan during a period many consider to have been the height of its uniqueness, when it was relatively free from foreign influence and was not yet as westernized as it is today, to find out what everyday living was like for its people.... What did common people do in their normal lives in 18th century Japan? What kind of work did they do? What did they eat? What tools did they use? W... |
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282,40 zł |
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The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
ISBN: 9780375754555 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to "Old Japan," with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern state, ultimately transforming itself, in the course of twenty-five years, from a feudal backwater to an international power. This great wave of historical and cultural reciprocity between the two young nations, which intensified during the late...
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moo...
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92,23 zł |
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Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military
ISBN: 9780393040852 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chronicles the Japanese military's transformation from honorable soldiers known for their chivalry and kindness towards their wounded and imprisoned enemies into men who massacred hundreds of thousands in the Pacific theater during World War II.
Chronicles the Japanese military's transformation from honorable soldiers known for their chivalry and kindness towards their wounded and imprisoned e...
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191,96 zł |
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Showa: The Japan of Hirohito
ISBN: 9780393310641 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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103,57 zł |
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Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
ISBN: 9780393316940 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful aspect of its wartime history. George Hicks's book is the only history in English regarding this terrible enslavement of women.
Over 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 th...
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92,04 zł |
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
ISBN: 9780393320275 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well as how the nation as a whole reacted to defeat and the end of a suicidal nationalism.
This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgenc...
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92,19 zł |
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Race and Migration in Imperial Japan
ISBN: 9780415062282 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan, with its political discourse and with the lexicon of post-war Japanese scholarship. This book examines underlying assumptions. The author provides an analysis of racial discourse in Japan, its articulation and re-articulation over the past century, against the background of labour migration from the colonial periphery. He deconstructs the myth of a Japanese race'.
Michael Weiner pursues a second major theme of colonial migration; its causes and consequences. Rather than merely identifying the push... A high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan, with its political discourse and with the lexicon of post-war Ja...
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731,67 zł |
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The Nature and Origins of Japanese Imperialism: A Re-Interpretation of the 1873 Crisis
ISBN: 9780415067102 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book, which many will regard as controversial, argues convincingly that the Japanese imperialism of the first half of the Twentieth Century was not a temporary aberration.
The author looks at the detail of the great crisis of 1873 and shows that the prospect of economic gain through overseas expansion was the central issue of that year's political struggles. He goes on to show that Japan had a long, earlier history of aiming for economic expansion overseas; and that Japan's Twentieth Century imperialism grew out of this. In addition, he argues convincingly that much of... This important book, which many will regard as controversial, argues convincingly that the Japanese imperialism of the first half of the Twentieth Cen...
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707,28 zł |
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Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan
ISBN: 9780415132282 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once thought of as a 'vanishing people', the Ainu are now reasserting both their culture and their claims to be the 'indigenous' people of Japan. Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan is the first major study to trace the outlines of Ainu history. It explores the ways in which competing versions of Ainu identity have been constructed and articulated, shedding light on the way modern relations between the Ainu and the Japanese have been shaped.
Once thought of as a 'vanishing people', the Ainu are now reasserting both their culture and their claims to be the 'indigenous' people of Japan. ...
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731,67 zł |
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Japan: The Childless Society? : The Crisis of Motherhood
ISBN: 9780415146463 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on interviews with Japanese women, this study examines the implications behind the declining birth rate in Japan and looks towards the future of a country that is in danger of becoming a childless society. It considers the reasons why Japanese women are finding it increasingly difficult to accept the terms and conditions of motherhood and explores the major factors contributing to maternal malaise in Japan including: the Ten Commandments of the Good Mother; the changing role of the father; education and careers; and nostalgia from older generations.
Drawing on interviews with Japanese women, this study examines the implications behind the declining birth rate in Japan and looks towards the future ...
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731,67 zł |
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Japan: The Childless Society?: The Crisis of Motherhood
ISBN: 9780415146470 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on interviews with Japanese women, this study examines the implications behind the declining birth rate in Japan and looks towards the future of a country that is in danger of becoming a childless society. It considers the reasons why Japanese women are finding it increasingly difficult to accept the terms and conditions of motherhood and explores the major factors contributing to maternal malaise in Japan including: the Ten Commandments of the Good Mother; the changing role of the father; education and careers; and nostalgia from older generations.
Drawing on interviews with Japanese women, this study examines the implications behind the declining birth rate in Japan and looks towards the future ...
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243,84 zł |
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The Governance of Cyberspace
ISBN: 9780415147231 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Issues of surveillance, control and privacy in relation to the internet are coming to the fore as a result of state concern with security, crime and economic advantage. Through an exploration of emerging debates regarding the possible desirability, form and agencies responsible for the regulation of the internet and an analysis of issues of surveillance, control, rights and privacy, The Governance of Cyberspace develops contemporary theories and considers issues of access, equity and economic advancement.
The Governance of Cyberspace encourages a more informed discussion... Issues of surveillance, control and privacy in relation to the internet are coming to the fore as a result of state concern with security, crime and e...
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780,44 zł |
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Japanese Business Management: Restructuring for Low Growth and Globalisation
ISBN: 9780415172561 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study the views of Japan's leading experts on the globalization of Japanese business, management and industrial relations explain how traditional Japanese-style management is responding to the changes following the collapse of the bubble economy. The areas covered include the changes made in management itself inside Japan and also how it is adapting itself when transferred overseas. The book demonstrates how management is moving towards a hybrid type in overseas operations and towards a western-style in Japan, where contractual principles are beginning to be given greater weight.
In this study the views of Japan's leading experts on the globalization of Japanese business, management and industrial relations explain how traditio...
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731,67 zł |
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Japan and South East Asia: International Relations
ISBN: 9780415182072 / Angielski / Twarda / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japan's relations with Southeast Asia differ in quantity and quality from relations with its immediate neighbours in Northeast Asia. The region includes the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Since the opening of the country in the mid-19th century, Japan's interest in this area, which is both geographically and psychologically remote from itself, has varied over time. In the early years of the 20th century, Japan's interest was limited to trade and investment in some of the European colonies which could support its industry and export market. During the...
Japan's relations with Southeast Asia differ in quantity and quality from relations with its immediate neighbours in Northeast Asia. The region includ...
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2560,83 zł |
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The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa : Literature and Memory
ISBN: 9780415191944 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration through literature, of Japan's experience of American military occupation. The text provides textual analysis and discussions of post-war history, and juxtaposes literature from men and women writers from mainland Japan and Okinawa. The author examines: whether Japanese womens' writing provides a counter-history to predominantly male narratives of the occupation; how Okinawan writers represented their region's distinct experience of American military occupation; and what Okinawan literature teaches us about historical memory in Japan today. American forces remain in Okinawa in...
An exploration through literature, of Japan's experience of American military occupation. The text provides textual analysis and discussions of post-w...
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731,67 zł |
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Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin
ISBN: 9780415219990 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyzes these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society. * the legal and social status of Koreans in Japan * the history of Korean colonial displacement and postcolonial division during the Cold War * ethnic education * women's self-expression. These studies serve to reveal the highly resilient and diverse... Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyzes these relations in ... |
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707,28 zł |
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The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century
ISBN: 9780415226516 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 21st century Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into the world's largest industrial power and one of the most highly urbanized countries in the world. Interestingly, whilst Japanese governments and planners borrowed from western planning ideas and methods - for instance, industrial processes and technologies - Japanese urban planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently from those of other developed countries.
During the 21st century Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into the world's largest industrial power and one of the most highl...
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731,67 zł |
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