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Author : James L. McClain
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801481833
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Edo and Paris written by James L. McClain and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frances Chambers
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Paris written by Frances Chambers and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive bibliography of the French capital. Includes sections on geography, guidebooks, history, economy, literature and intellectual life, politics, the arts, architecture and urban planning, and mass media. The history, arts, and literature sections take up the bulk of the text. Most cited works were published after 1970. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173035
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Breaking Barriers written by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Travel in Tokugawa Japan was officially controlled by bakufu and domainal authorities via an elaborate system of barriers, or sekisho, and travel permits; commoners, however, found ways to circumvent these barriers, frequently ignoring the laws designed to control their mobility, in this study, Constantine Vaporis challenges the notion that this system of travel regulations prevented widespread travel, maintaining instead that a “culture of movement” in Japan developed in the Tokugawa era. Using a combination of governmental documentation and travel literature, diaries, and wood-block prints, Vaporis examines the development of travel as recreation; he discusses the impact of pilgrimage and the institutionalization of alms-giving on the freedom of movement commoners enjoyed. By the end of the Tokugawa era, the popular nature of travel and a sophisticated system of roads were well established: Vaporis explores the reluctance of the bakufu to enforce its travel laws, and in doing so, beautifully evokes the character of the journey through Tokugawa Japan."
Author : Amy Stanley
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501188526
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Stranger in the Shogun's City written by Amy Stanley and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Nominated for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award * Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography * A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. Immersive and fascinating, Stranger in the Shogun’s City is a revelatory work of history, layered with rich detail and delivered with beautiful prose, about the life of a woman, a city, and a culture.
Author : Daniel J. Weeks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611462800
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Gateways to Empire written by Daniel J. Weeks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664, historian Daniel Weeks has provided the first comprehensive comparative study of the North-American fur-trading colonies New France and New Netherland. While neither colony profited very much, if at all, from the fur trade (though many individuals fortunes were undoubtedly made), Weeks finds that New France, which far outpaced New Netherland in this trade, grew more slowly and had greater difficulty sustaining itself. As he demonstrates in Gateways to Empire, other factors, including New Netherland’s openness to religious and ethnic diversity and wider connections to the Atlantic World, allowed it to become more economically secure than its rival north of the St. Lawrence. And yet, in both cases, the principal towns of these European colonies—Quebec and New Amsterdam—moved beyond their initial purposes as hubs for trade with the indigenous peoples to become gateways to European settlement. In this, New Amsterdam, by the late 1640s, was singularly successful, so that it rapidly fostered the production of new European towns in its hinterlands, organizing the landscape for settlement and also for trade within the European-dominated Atlantic-World system.
Author : Robert Maitland
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845935462
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book City Tourism written by Robert Maitland and published by CABI. This book was released on 2009 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capital city status attracts and drives tourism by enhancing a city's appeal to the tourist and its international standing. With a focus on city tourism themes, this book examines subjects including the identity of a city in a tourism context and practical matters such as promoting the city as a product. By examining tourist activities in national capitals, the book addresses issues in capital city development as tourist destinations with a broad, international approach and case studies on major tourist cities.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004279725
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Listen, Copy, Read written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and women of all social strata became involved in acquiring knowledge and skills during the Tokugawa period. It offers an overview of the communication media and tools that teachers, booksellers, and authors elaborated to make such knowledge more accessible to a large audience. Schools, public lectures, private academies or hand-copied or printed manuals devoted to a great variety of topics, from epistolary etiquette or personal ethics to calculation, divination or painting, are here invoked to illustrate the vitality of Tokugawa Japan’s ‘knowledge market’, and to show how popular learning relied on three types of activities: listening, copying and reading. With contributions by: W.J. Boot, Matthias Hayek, Annick Horiuchi, Michael Kinski, Koizumi Yoshinaga, Peter Kornicki, Machi Senjūrō, Christophe Marquet, Markus Rüttermann, Tsujimoto Masashi, and Wakao Masaki.
Author : Meron Medzini
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684171725
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book French Policy in Japan During the Closing Years of the Tokugawa Regime written by Meron Medzini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of French policy in Japan and the bakufu during the bakamatsu period. Includes chapters on the mission of Baron Gros, Franco-Japanese commercial relations 1859-1863, the Ikeda mission, Leon Roches and the new French policy, anglo-french differences, the Yokosuka arsenal, military assistance, Roches and Tokugawa Keiki, and the Meiji Restoration and the failure of the Roches policy.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Metal Buildings and Components written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James W. White
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813930790
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Mirrors of Memory written by James W. White and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As society becomes more global, many see the world’s great cities as becoming increasingly similar. But while contemporary cultures do depend on and resemble each other in previously unimagined ways, homogenization is sometimes overestimated. In his compelling new book, James W. White considers how two of the world’s great cities, Paris and Tokyo, may appear to be growing more alike--both are vast, modern, dominating, capitalist cities--but in fact remain profoundly different places. Tokyo’s growth appears particularly organic, with a pronounced austerity and boundaries far less clear than those of Paris, which has been planned and manipulated constantly. Paris has a thriving center and a noticeably more contentious relationship with its nation, and its own suburbs, than Tokyo does. White explores how the roles of cities and urbanism in each society, and the balance between nature and artifice, account for some of these differences. He also examines the role of authority in each location and considers the way catastrophes, such as war, alter a city--as well as the role fear plays in a city’s construction. While the author acknowledges that Tokyo is more physically fluid and superficially chaotic than Paris, he also demonstrates that it has an invisible order of its own (including a center that, contrary to most assumptions, is not empty at all). White depicts a Tokyo that relies less on the monumental, and is less influenced by government, than most cities in the West. Where the culture of Paris emphasizes clarity, exclusion, and marginality, the public spaces of Tokyo express ambiguity, inclusiveness, and impermanence. In the end, White makes us reconsider which city better deserves the name "City of Light." Nonetheless, he warns, several factors may combine to discourage Tokyo’s international ascendance and even to threaten the future of provincial Japan. Thus it may be Paris, paradoxically, that is better poised to improve both its own position and its country’s in the years ahead.
Author : Kumazawa Banzan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108624219
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Kumazawa Banzan: Governing the Realm and Bringing Peace to All below Heaven written by Kumazawa Banzan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kumazawa Banzan's (1619-1691) Responding to the Great Learning (Daigaku wakumon) stands as the first major writing on political economy in early modern Japanese history. John A. Tucker's translation is the first English rendition of this controversial text to be published in eighty years. The introduction offers an accessible and incisive commentary, including detailed analyses of Banzan's text within the context of his life, as well as broader historical and intellectual developments in East Asian Confucian thought. Emphasizing parallels between Banzan's life events, such as his relief efforts in the Okayama domain following devastating flooding, and his later writings advocating compassionate government, environmental initiatives, and projects for growing wealth, Tucker sheds light on Banzan's main objective of 'governing the realm and bringing peace and prosperity to all below heaven'. In Responding to the Great Learning, Banzan was doing more than writing a philosophical commentary, he was advising the Tokugawa shogunate to undertake a major reorganization of the polity - or face the consequences.
Author : David Stonfer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Storage Battery Market written by David Stonfer and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cynthia Brokaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135188834X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The History of the Book in East Asia written by Cynthia Brokaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the book in East Asia is closely linked to problems of language and script, problems which have also had a profound impact on the technology of printing and on the social and intellectual impact of print in this area. This volume contains key readings on the history of printed books and manuscripts in China, Korea and Japan and includes an introduction which provides an overview of the history of the book in East Asia and sets the readings in their context.
Author : Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110959356
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book 1994 written by Massimo Mastrogregori and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
Author : Robert Bud
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815315612
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Instruments of Science written by Robert Bud and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 300 entries from the ancient abacus to X-ray diffraction, as represented by a ca. 1900 photo of an X- ray machine as well as the latest research into filmless x- ray systems, this tour of the history of scientific instruments in multiple disciplines provides context and a bibliography for each entry. Newer conceptions of "instrument" include organisms widely used in research: e.g. the mouse, drosophila, and E. coli. Bandw photographs and diagrams showcase more traditional instruments from The Science Museum, London, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Mara Patessio
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901605
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan written by Mara Patessio and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan focuses on women’s activities in the new public spaces of Meiji Japan. With chapters on public, private, and missionary schools for girls, their students, and teachers, on social and political groups women created, on female employment, and on women’s participation in print media, this book offers a new perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese history. Women’s founding of and participation in conflicting discourses over the value of women in Meiji public life demonstrate that during this period active and vocal women were everywhere, that they did not meekly submit to the dictates of the government and intellectuals over what women could or should do, and that they were fully integrated in the production of Meiji culture. Mara Patessio shows that the study of women is fundamental not only in order to understand fully the transformations of the Meiji period, but also to understand how later generations of women could successfully move the battle forward. Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan is essential reading for all students and teachers of 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese history and is of interest to scholars of women’s history more generally.
Author : Atsuyoshi Fujiwara
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 163087647X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context written by Atsuyoshi Fujiwara and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian faith has always stood in a place of tension between its transcendent nature and the surrounding culture. On the one hand, Christian faith claims to originate in the revelation of God, which transforms culture itself. On the other hand, all such revelation is inevitably received and interpreted by humans in concrete situations. It is no exaggeration to say that two millennia of church history have continually demonstrated the struggle between Christian faith and culture. In an effort to address this struggle, this book explores relevant issues pertinent to the relationship between faith and culture in the particular context of Japan. In this unique work, the context of Japan, well known as a desolate swamp for Christian missions, provides the setting for a re-exploration of issues pertaining to theology of culture. As such, Japan provides both a concrete and challenging context to work out a theology of culture. This book also helpfully illuminates for Western readers some key problems that may not have appeared fully in their contexts yet but will do so as the post-Christendom era continues.
