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Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society: Public Properties : Museums in Imperial Japan (Paperback)

Public Properties is a historical account of how museums in Japan and its empire contributed to the reimagining of state and society during Japan s imperial era from 1868 until 1945. more

Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society: Bad Water : Nature Pollution and Politics in Japan 1870-1950 (Hardcover)

Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan s social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. The need to incorporate... more

Routledge Library Editions: Japan Japan Under Taisho Tenno: 1912-1926 (Paperback)

A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years this volume examines the history economy politics and society of Japan from just before the First World War until 1926. Japan s relations with the West as well as with Russia and China are also... more

Pre-Owned Before the Nation: Kokugaku and Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Hardcover 9780822331834) by Susan L Burns

9780822331834. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 296. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 296 p. Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society. Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to... more

Japan Anthropology Workshop Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito (Hardcover)

Presenting a study of politics at grassroots level among young Japanese this book examines the alliance between the religious movement Soka Gakkai (the Value-creation Society ) and Komeito (the Clean Government Party ) which shared power with the... more

Key Issues in Asian Studies: Japan Since 1945 (Paperback)

Concisely rendered engagingly written and thoughtful in its judgments this short book is a most valuable interpretation of Japan s remarkable history since the end of World War II. It surveys the dramatic changes in Japan s society politics economy... more

Harvard East Asian Monographs: Public Law Private Practice: Politics Profit and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Hardcover)

Long ignored by historians and repudiated in their time practitioners of private law opened the way toward Japan s legal modernity. From the seventeenth to the turn of the twentieth century lawyers and their predecessors changed society in ways that... more

Ideas Society and Politics in NE Asia and N Europe : Worlds Apart Learning from Each Other (Paperback)

This intriguing volume explains why after centuries of Western scholars studying Asia Asian scholars are beginning to study Western societies in return. Responding to the rise of Nordic studies in China Japan and Korea the authors explore how... more

Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society: Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (Paperback)

Max Ward explores the Japanese state s efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s through the enforcement of what it called thought crime providing a window into understanding how modern states develop ideological apparatuses to... more

Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society: Money Trains and Guillotines : Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan (Paperback)

During the 1960s a group of artists challenged the status quo in Japan through interventionist art. William Mariotti situates the artists in relation to postwar Japan and the international activism of the 1960s. more

Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society: Money Trains and Guillotines : Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan (Hardcover)

During the 1960s a group of artists challenged the status quo in Japan through interventionist art. William Mariotti situates the artists in relation to postwar Japan and the international activism of the 1960s. more

Pre-Owned Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society: Public Properties : Museums in Imperial Japan (Hardcover)

Public Properties is a historical account of how museums in Japan and its empire contributed to the reimagining of state and society during Japan s imperial era from 1868 until 1945. more

Pre-Owned Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Introduction to Asian Civilizations Sources of Japanese Tradition Abridged: 1600 to 2000; Part 2: 1868 to 2000 Book 2 (Paperback)

For almost fifty years Sources of Japanese Tradition has been the single most valuable collection of English-language readings on Japan. Unrivalled in its wide selection of source materials on history society politics education philosophy and... more

Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society: Kingdom of Beauty : Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan (Paperback)

A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University Kingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a... more

Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society: Civilization and Monsters : Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Paperback)

Monsters ghosts the supernatural the fantastic the mysterious. These are not usually considered the stuff of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern or at best seen as representative of traditional... more

Becoming Japanese : Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation (Edition 1) (Paperback)

In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. In... more

Japan in the Modern World S War Nationalism and Peasants: Java Under the Japanese Occupation 1942-45: Java Under the Japanese Occupation 1942-45 (Hardcover)

A comprehensive analysis of the Japanese occupation of Java. The book explores the human drama that cannot be simply explained in terms of nationalism and fascism. The totality of Indonesian society is addressed including the politics and daily... more

Japan Anthropology Workshop Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito (Paperback)

Presenting a study of politics at grassroots level among young Japanese this book examines the alliance between the religious movement Soka Gakkai (the Value-creation Society ) and Komeito (the Clean Government Party ) which shared power with the... more

Pre-Owned Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (Asia-Pacific Series) (Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in good condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help. ISBN-10: 0822325187 ISBN-13:... more

Pre-Owned The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan (Paperback 9780822344179) by Ken C Kawashima

9780822344179. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 312. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 312 p. Contains: Unspecified Tables black & white. Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society. Koreans constituted the... more

Sources of Japanese Tradition Abridged: 1600 to 2000; Part 2: 1868 to 2000 (Paperback)

For almost fifty years Sources of Japanese Tradition has been the single most valuable collection of English-language readings on Japan. Unrivalled in its wide selection of source materials on history society politics education philosophy and... more

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Stud Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan (Hardcover)

Although local neighborhood associations are found in many countries Japan s are distinguished by their ubiquity scope of activities and very high participation rates making them important for the study of society and politics. Most Japanese belong... more

Hill and Wang Critical Issues: The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice (Paperback)

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise affordable works on pivotal topics in American history society and politics. The men who made up the Supreme Court when Earl Warren was Chief Justice (1953-69) changed America forever and their... more

American Business Politics and Society: The People s Network (Hardcover)

The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900 ordinary citizens--farmers doctors small-town entrepreneurs--established... more

Politics Culture and Society in Early M Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London C. 1500- C.1750 (Paperback)

Events such as the fire of London and the Plague and locations like the Globe are part of our national heritage however until recently the history of London between 1500 and 1750 has been little studied. As a city London underwent exceptional... more

Routledge Studies in the Growth Economie Risk Management and Innovation in Japan Britain and the USA (Paperback)

Assessing and managing risk is vitally important and is increasingly studied in a range of areas including politics and international relations finance and insurance and innovation and the valuing of intangible assets such as patents and... more

Bringing Sociology to International Relations: World Politics as Differentiation Theory (Hardcover)

Functional differentiation has long been at the heart of sociological thought and as such has become a defining feature in the evolution of modern society; one which distinguishes it from pre-modern societies which have instead typically... more

Endless Empire: Spain s Retreat Europe s Eclipse America s Decline (Paperback)

This concise comparative history looks at politics in the nations collectively known as the Group of Seven the United States Canada Britain France Germany Japan and Italy from the end of the Second World War to the end of the Cold War. Emphasizing... more

The American reader from Columbus to today; being a compilation or collection of the personal narratives relations and journals concerning the society economy politics life an

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The American reader from Columbus to today; being a compilation or collection of the personal narratives relations and journals concerning the society economy politics life an

Select Your Preferred Color at No Additional Cost! Explore More Options by Clicking on More Images and Notify Us of Your Choice via Email. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition expertly crafted by the prestigious organization “Rare... more

Proximal Politics: Why Friendship Matters (Paperback)

Politics is the authoritative allocation of values in a society. So who determines these values that will later be enforced by the end of a police officer s weapon? We the people decide. The daily interactions of millions of citizens pool together... more

After Liberalism?: A Christian Confrontation on Politics and Economics (Paperback)

The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic the unrest in the US following the unlawful death of George Floyd and other sources of social unrest and insecurity have brought to a head something that has been brewing in Western societies... more

Politics in Asia Japanese Democracy and Lessons for the United States: Eight Counterintuitive Lessons (Paperback)

This book presents a collection of lessons on how best to run elections and politics using examples from the Japanese experience and showing how elections operate in a non-Western democracy. Featuring extensive data and evidence from both Japan and... more

Pre-Owned An Introduction to Political Communication (Paperback) 0415596440 9780415596442

An Introduction to Political Communication introduces students to the complex relationship between politics the media and democracy in the United Kingdom United States and other contemporary societies. Brian McNair examines how politicians trade... more

Pre-Owned The Koreans : Contemporary Politics and Society 9780813305158

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan. Volume 16 (1892) (1892) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1892 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more