The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphereーthe region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relati……続きを見る
"A stimulating paper." -The Nation
"The most important general paper that has been communicated to us." -Geographical Journal
"A notable paper ... makes a bold generalisation as to the geographical ……続きを見る
著者:S. C. M. Paine
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2017年03月31日
The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and be……続きを見る
著者:Nanditha Krishna
出版社: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
発売日: 2017年12月26日
The basis of Hinduism is dharma or righteousness, incorporating duty, cosmic law and justice. Five thousand years ago, the Vedas showed a clear appreciation of the natural world and its ecology, the……続きを見る
After riding then those ten days from the city of Juju, you find yourself in a kingdom called Taianfu, and the city at which you arrive, which is the capital, is also called Taianfu, a very great an……続きを見る
著者:Jie-Hyun Lim
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2025年03月30日
Nationalism today depends on the perception of victimhood. The historical memory of past suffering endows nationalist movements with political legitimacy and a sense of moral superiority. Koreans re……続きを見る
"The History of Antiquity" in 6 volumes is one of the best-known works by historian Max Duncker. The author's object in regard to the ancient East was not to retrace the beginning of human civilizat……続きを見る
著者:Cécile Asanuma-Brice
出版社: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme
発売日: 2021年04月07日
Le 11 mars 2011, au large des côtes de l’île japonaise de Honshu, un séisme de magnitude 9,1, doublé d’un tsunami, provoque plusieurs explosions et la fonte de trois des six réacteurs de la centrale……続きを見る
History of Japan: From early history to the present day
Introduction to Japan's history
Are you interested in the history of Japan?
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This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia ……続きを見る
In 1639, while the Géluk School of the Fifth Dalai Lama and Qing emperors vied for supreme authority in Inner Asia, Zanabazar (1635–1723), a young descendent of Chinggis Khaan, was proclaimed the ne……続きを見る
著者:Donald F. Lach
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2010年01月15日
This is the second volume in a series that traces, century by century, the role of Asia in the making of Europe.
The rise to world dominance of the Western nations in modern times and the rapid indu……続きを見る
著者:Kerry Ward
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively ……続きを見る
Recounts the Light Dragoons’ four arduous tours in Helmand during Operation Herrick, highlighting strategy, combat, and courage.
On Afghanistan’s Plains tells the story of four gruelling tours of du……続きを見る
In the early 1950s fisherfolk and other villagers around Minamata Bay on the western coast of Kyushu, Japan, began to suffer from mysterious and often fatal symptoms of what came to be known as Mina……続きを見る
With all the intrinsic interest of Marco Polo’s Book it may perhaps be doubted if it would have continued to exercise such .fascination on many minds through successive generations were it not for t……続きを見る
Michael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021.
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著者:Jeremy Black
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2017年01月05日
The modern age of naval warfare began with the combination of steam power, iron warships, and modern artillery, which launched an intense period of international competition. Tracing naval warfare f……続きを見る
In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people.
Instant New York Times Bestseller
The Dalai Lama has had to con……続きを見る
"A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed." ーBill Gates, "Top 5 Books of the Year"
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