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Mini-set E: Sociology & Anthropology re-issues 10 volumes originally published between 1931 and 1995 and covers topics such as japanese whaling, marriage in japan, and the japanese health care system.

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This is the sixth part of the successful Edition Synapse series (available outside Japan from Routledge) which provides art historians and students with the primary-source materials related to the Western reception of Japanese arts from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

This collection brings together for the first time the works by Felix Regamey, a leading artist and book illustrator of the Japonism movement in France. Regamey first came to Japan with Emile Guimet in 1876 and together they travelled around Japan and published Promenades japonaises, with...

'In these decorative days the volumes bring calm counsel and kindly suggestions, with information for the ignorant and aid for the advancing, that ought to help many a feeble, if well-meaning pilgrim along the weary road, at the end whereof, far off, lies the House Beautiful ...'--Examiner, 1876.

• Launched by a successful editor and publisher W. J. Loftie in 1876, Art at Home was a series of small guidebooks or manuals for women in the upper-middle class striving for a more aesthetic and cultured life.
• The series gained great popularity among housewives...

Published by EPM in Japan and distributed outside of Japan by Routledge

- The first major reprint collection of African-American music, including negro spirituals, slave songs, and African-American folk songs: crucial cultural artefacts for those seeking to understand the development of African-American culture and its acceptance by mainstream American society.

- The collection brings together nine publications published from the Civil War to the early twentieth century when interest in African-American music started rapidly to develop outside its own milieu.

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The growing importance of Islam in the world coincides with the growing interest by scholars in understanding Islam as a religion and its political and social influences. The geographic scope of Islam goes far beyond the Middle East, ranging from the Far East to sub-Saharan Africa.There is a vast diversity of Islamic movements and every country has its own distinctive pattern. But of the main categories of Islamic groups, only the Islamist political groups, the best-known in the West such as the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaida, Hamas and Hizballah, have been thoroughly analyzed and...

This is the second series of a collection of caricatures and cartoons published in newspapers and journals worldwide during the period from the end of the nineteenth century to pre-second world war. Covering the years 1906-1920, this four-volume collection features more than 6,000 caricatures and cartoons from nearly 340 newspapers and journals of 34 countries, which includes China, India, Japan and other non-western regions as well as UK, US and Europe. Including around 6000 illustrations, Caricatures and Cartoons: A History of the World, series 2, 1906-1920 vividly describes the...

- Following the style of the most famous book of Renaissance art history, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, this is one of the most comprehensive books of British art history covering the early period to the early nineteenth century.

- Alain Cunningham compiled this monumental work with the support of his contemporaries, such as John Gibson Lockhart, the editor of Quarterly Review and Robert Southey. It took several years to complete.

- The book selected forty-seven British artists; not only famous painters and...

- This is the first collection of a new Eureka Press series which reprints in facsimile the local town handbooks published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on the occasion of the annual conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

- The first collection covers the northern part of England, including Newcastle-upon-Tyne, York, Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, and Southport.

- Edited by local historians and scientists, the handbooks provided objective data on each city or town, together with many maps: ideal contemporary...

• Facsimile reproductions of six collections of fairy tales by three female writers: Madame d'Aulnoy, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and Mary de Morgan published 18th- and 19th- century England, with many illustrations which are all faithfully reproduced.
• By tracing the English tradition of the literary fairy tales, this collection highlights the important role women played in changing conventional ideas, especially about gender, by telling their own stories.
• Useful resource for the study of both fairy tales and women's literature and art.

This new set from Edition Synapse represents a complete collection of Percival Lowell s writings on Asia (primarily on Japan and Korea) including fourteen journal and newspaper articles and transcribed letters to his sister and a leading imagist poet of the time Amy Lowell and Lafcadio Hearn.

Travelling widely in Japan and Korea in the 1880s and 1890s, he published the works collected here which influenced Lafcadio Hearn and his books on Japan. His books such as Choson, Noto and Occult Japan were read widely amongst the American intellectual community at the end of the nineteenth...

This 12-volume set of previously out-of-print tiles examines many aspects of conflict and security in the Middle East. Works on the first Gulf War (including one on its environmental impact) sit alongside books about the superpowers, nuclear rivalry and attempts at peacemaking.

This is the ninth part of the successful series supervised by Aiko Mabuchi, Director General, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, which provide art historians and students with the primary source materials related to the reception of Japanese arts from late nineteenth-century to early twentieth century in the Western societies. All materials are reproduced in facsimile reprint and include many plates and illustrations in colour.

This new collection includes writings by James Lord Bowes on Japanese arts. Bowes (1834 1899) was a wealthy Japanese art collector in...

This is the fourth part of a successful facsimile series which reprints The Modern Traveller, originally published in 30 volumes between 1825 and 1829. Edited by Josiah Conder, the editor of journals like The Eclectic Review or The Patriot, The Modern Traveller was a successful series of travel books published just prior to Britain s transport revolution which saw the development and rapid expansion of roads and railways. Reflecting Britain s imperial ambitions and the expansion of its Empire around the globe, the series had global range, including coverage of...

This is a facsimile reprint of ten titles bound in four volumes.

Much scholarly work on Lafcadio Hearn, the most important figure in the cultural relationship between the West and Japan, has already been published. However, how he was actually regarded and accepted by contemporary Western society is still an underexplored area. To answer the needs of researchers attempting to address this question, Early Biographical Sources on Lafcadio Hearn brings together eight biographies by his contemporaries, together with two pamphlets from conferences which were organized to commemorate his...