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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307957594
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China. The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure. This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.

Collected Writings of Gordon Daniels

Author : Gordon Daniels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135311862
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Collected Writings of Gordon Daniels written by Gordon Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally a student of Meiji Japan, Gordon Daniels is widely known for his work on the Pacific War and the Occupation of Japan, with particular regard to the world of communications in film and propaganda as well as Japanese sport. He has also been closely involved with the post-war era of international relations and Japan, as well as studies in Japanese history and historiography. In the 1980s he made significant contributions in reporting on the scope and development of Japanese Studies in Britain. His most recent work has been as joint editor (and contributor) with Chushichi Tsuzuki of Social and Cultural Perspectives - the fifth of the five-volume series on the history of Anglo-Japanese Relations (Palgrave, 2002).

America: The New Imperialism

Author : Victor G. Kiernan
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789609992
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book America: The New Imperialism written by Victor G. Kiernan and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invasion and occupation of Iraq have sparked considerable discussion about the nature of American imperialism, but most of it is focused on the short term. The classical historical approach of this book provides a convincing and compelling analysis of the different phases of American imperialism, which have now led to America becoming a global hegemon without any serious rivals. Victor Kiernan, one of the world's most respected historians, has used his nuanced knowledge of history, literature and politics to trace the evolution of the American Empire: he includes accounts of relations between Indians and white settlers, readings of the work of Melville and Whitman, and an analysis of the way that money and politics became so closely intertwined. Eric Hobsbawm's preface provides an insight into his own thoughts on American imperialism, and a valuable introduction to Victor Kiernan's work. Together, they shed useful light on today's urgent debates about the uses and misuses of seemingly unlimited military power, a lack of respect for international agreements, and the right to 'pre-emptive defense'.

America

Author : Victor Kiernan
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783606002
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book America written by Victor Kiernan and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there have been many analyses of American imperialism, few have equalled the breadth or insight of this seminal text, one of the first to provide a historical perspective on the origins of the American empire. Victor Kiernan, one of the world's most respected historians, employs a nuanced knowledge of history, literature, and politics in tracing the evolution of American power. Far reaching and ambitious in scope, the book combines accounts of the changing relationship between Native Americans and the white population with readings of the works of key cultural figures, such as Melville and Whitman, as well as an analysis of the way in which money and politics became so closely intertwined in American democracy. Also included is a preface by Eric Hobsbawm providing insight into his own views on American imperialism as well as a valuable introduction to Victor Kiernan's work. Together, they shed useful light on such issues as the uses and misuses of American military might, its lack of respect for international agreements, and the right to pre-emptive defence – issues which remain just as urgent today.

Hugh Cortazzi - Collected Writings

Author : Hugh Cortazzi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134251742
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Hugh Cortazzi - Collected Writings written by Hugh Cortazzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special areas: biographies, history, cultural exchange, arts, business and foreign affairs.

The Athenaeum

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Japan

Author : Francis Ottiwell Adams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385229847
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The History of Japan written by Francis Ottiwell Adams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Decolonising Imperial Heroes

Author : Max Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317270126
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Decolonising Imperial Heroes written by Max Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroes of the British and French empires stood at the vanguard of the vibrant cultures of imperialism that emerged in Europe in the second-half of the nineteenth century. Their stories are well known. Scholars have tended to assume that figures such as Livingstone and Gordon, or Marchand and Brazza, vanished rapidly at the end of empire. Yet imperial heroes did not disappear after 1945, as British and French flags were lowered around the world. On the contrary, their reputations underwent a variety of metamorphoses in both the former metropoles and the former colonies. This book develops a framework to understand the complex legacies of decolonisation, both political and cultural, through the case study of imperial heroes. We demonstrate that the ‘decolonisation’ of imperial heroes was a much more complex and protracted process than the political retreat from empire, and that it is still an ongoing phenomenon, even half a century after the world has ceased to be ‘painted in red’. Whilst Decolonising Imperial Heroes explores the appeal of the explorers, humanitarians and missionaries whose stories could be told without reference to violence against colonized peoples, it also analyses the persistence of imperial heroes as sites of political dispute in the former metropoles. Demonstrating that the work of remembrance was increasingly carried out by diverse, fragmented groups of non-state actors, in a process we call ‘the privatisation of heroes’, the book reveals the surprising rejuvenation of imperial heroes in former colonies, both in nation-building narratives and as heritage sites. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Britain and Japan

Author : Hugh Cortazzi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136641408
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Britain and Japan written by Hugh Cortazzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuing success of this series, highly regarded by scholars and the general reader alike, has prompted The Japan Society to commission this fourth volume, devoted as before to the lives of key people, both British and Japanese, who have made significant contributions to the development of Anglo-Japanese relations. The appearance of this volume brings the number of portraits published to over one hundred. The portraits cover diplomats (from Mori Arinori to Sir Francis Lindley), businessmen (from William Keswick to Lasenby Liberty), engineers and teachers (from W. E. Ayrton to Henry Spencer Palmer), scholars and writers (from Sir Edwin Arnold to Ivan Morris), as well as journalists, judo masters and the aviator Lord Semphill. In all, there are a total of 34 contributions.

Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913

Author : Ann Marie L. Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498542158
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913 written by Ann Marie L. Davis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1913, a small crowd gathered on the streets of a famous red-light district on the outskirts of Tokyo. Curious patrons, journalists, and onlookers formed a steady procession to see the prostitute, Wada Yoshiko, and celebrate the release of her new book. A Prostitute’s Tale divulged inner secrets about her co-workers, patrons, and difficult confinement in a government-run syphilis hospital. According to the press, the author was a literary prostitute, a new expert, and a compelling version of Japan’s new woman. Soon widely acclaimed, her literary work heralded a growing public desire for inside knowledge about the lived experiences of pleasure workers. Wada’s success was the product of more than half-a-century of high-stakes conversations about the future of Japan. Her fame as an author simultaneously challenged and complemented previous discussions about the role of the female prostitute in the modern nation-state. However, while her perspective was new, the information she shared invoked key themes that had proliferated about her in prior decades. Since the 1850s, when Japan was forced to sign the “unequal” commercial treaties with the Western imperial powers, wide-ranging debates had taken place that linked the prostitute to national security and international prestige in imperative new ways. Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan traces the symbol of the prostitute as a project of nation- and empire-building from the 1850s to 1913, ending one year after the death of the Meiji emperor, and coincidentally, the year of Wada’s publication. It untangles how ideas about pleasure work intersected with Japan’s transformation into a modern nation according to Western models. It asserts that the figure of the prostitute was a powerful symbolic resource that wide-ranging interest groups deployed, variously, to negotiate and define shifting distinctions of status, identity, and power. Each of the debates about the prostitute was in turn central to and mutually constitutive of the emergent social order in Meiji Japan.

The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000

Author : I. Nish
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598951
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000 written by I. Nish and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-02-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1600-1930, consists of parallel essays by Japanese and British academic specialists covering comprehensively the history of relations between Japan and Britain from the first contacts in the seventeenth century to the present. This study, and its companion, Volume 2, demonstrates that, in the political-diplomatic sphere, while there have been periods of serious disagreement, there has been on the whole a relationship of harmony and mutual understanding.

Titles of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston

Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Titles of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

L. Richard's ...

Author : Louis Richard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book L. Richard's ... written by Louis Richard and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire and Dependencies

Author : L. Richard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire and Dependencies written by L. Richard and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2

Author : Finkelstein David Finkelstein
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474424910
Total Pages : 1258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2 written by Finkelstein David Finkelstein and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough account of newspaper and periodical press history in Britain and Ireland from 1800-1900Provides a comprehensive history of the British and Irish Press from 1800-1900, reflected upon in 60 substantive chapters and focused case studiesSets out to capture the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in nineteenth-century Britain and IrelandOffers unique and important reassessments of nineteenth-century British and Irish press and periodical media within social, cultural, technological, economic and historical contextsThis is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history during a key period of change and development. It covers an important point of expansion in periodical and press history across the four nations of Great Britain (England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales), concentrating on cross-border and transnational comparisons and contrasts in nineteenth-century print communication. Designed to provide readers with a clear understanding of the current state of research in the field, in addition to an extensive introduction, it includes forty newly commissioned chapters and case studies exploring a full range of press activity and press genres during this intense period of change. Along with keystone chapters on the economics of the press and periodicals, production processes, readership and distribution networks, and legal frameworks under which the press operated, the book examines a wide range of areas from religious, literary, political and medical press genres to analyses of overseas and migr press and emerging developments in children's and women's press.

The Lords of Human Kind

Author : Victor Kiernan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783604301
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Lords of Human Kind written by Victor Kiernan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous. Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries' memoirs, the letters of diplomats' wives, explorers' diaries and the work of writers as diverse as Voltaire, Thackeray, Oliver Goldsmith and, of course, Kipling - Victor Kiernan teases out the full range of European attitudes to other peoples. Erudite, ironic and global in its scope, The Lords of Human Kind has been a major influence on a generation of historians and cultural critics and is a landmark in the history of Eurocentrism.

Demarcating Japan

Author : Takahiro Yamamoto
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176719
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Demarcating Japan written by Takahiro Yamamoto and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of remote islands around Japan are usually told through the prism of territorial disputes. In contrast, Takahiro Yamamoto contends that the transformation of the islands from ambiguous border zones to a territorialized space emerged out of multilateral power relations. Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Tsushima, the Bonin Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands became the subject of inter-imperial negotiations during the formative years of modern Japan as empires nudged each other to secure their status with minimal costs rather than fighting a territorial scramble. Based on multiarchival, multilingual research, Demarcating Japan argues that the transformation of border islands should be understood as an interconnected process, where inter-local referencing played a key role in the outcome: Japan’s geographical expansion in the face of domineering Extra-Asian empires.