The Perry Expedition and the "Opening of Japan to the West, " 18531873: A Short History with Documents, Paul Hendrix Clark
Автор: Goto-Jones, Christopher Название: Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0199235694 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199235698 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8440.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it remains an enigma to many, who see it as a confusing montage of the alien and the familiar, the ancient and modern. The aim of this Very Short Introduction is to explode the myths and explore the reality of modern Japan - by taking a concise look at its history, economy, politics, and culture.
Автор: Scharnhorst Gary Название: Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West ISBN: 0806153512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806153513 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 18350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Bret Harte was the best-known and highest-paid writer in America in the early 1870s, yet his vexed attempts to earn a living by his pen led to the failure of his marriage and, in 1878, his departure for Europe. Gary Scharnhorst's biography of Harte traces the growing commercial appeal of western fiction and drama on both sides of the Atlantic during the Gilded Age, a development in which Harte played a crucial role.
Harte's pioneering use of California local color in such stories as -The Outcasts of Poker Flat- challenged genteel assumptions about western writing and helped open eastern papers to contributions by Mark Twain and others. The popularity of Bret Harte's writings was driven largely by a literary market that his western stories helped create.
The first Harte biography in nearly seventy years to be written entirely from primary sources, this book documents Harte's personal relationships and, in addition, his negotiations with various publishers, agents, and theatrical producers as he exploited popular interest in the American West.
Автор: Samuel Perry Название: Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-Garde ISBN: 0824875192 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824875190 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Recasting Red Culture turns a critical eye on the influential proletarian cultural movement that flourished in 1920s and 1930s Japan. This was a diverse, cosmopolitan, and highly contested moment in Japanese history when notions of political egalitarianism were being translated into cultural practices specific to the Japanese experience. Both a political and historiographical intervention, the book offers a fascinating account of the passions —and antinomies— that animated one of the most admirable intellectual and cultural movements of Japan’s twentieth century, and argues that proletarian literature, cultural workers, and institutions fundamentally enrich our understanding of Japanese culture.What sustained the proletarian movement’s faith in the idea that art and literature were indispensable to the task of revolution? How did the movement manage to enlist artists, teachers, and scientist into its ranks, and what sorts of contradictions arose in the merging of working-class and bourgeois cultures? Recasting Red Culture asks these and other questions as it historicizes proletarian Japan at the intersection of bourgeois aesthetics, radical politics, and a flourishing modern print culture. Drawing parallels with the experiences of European revolutionaries, the book vividly details how cultural activists “recast” forms of modern culture into practices commensurate with the goals of revolution. Weaving over a dozen translated fairytales, poems, and short stories into his narrative, Samuel Perry offers a fundamentally new approach to studying revolutionary culture. By examining the margins of the proletarian cultural movement, Perry effectively redefines its center as he closely reads and historicizes proletarian children’s culture, avant-garde “wall fiction,” and a literature that bears witness to Japan’s fraught relationship with its Korean colony. Along the way, he shows how proletarian culture opened up new critical spaces in the intersections of class, popular culture, childhood, gender, and ethnicity.
Автор: Miller John H. Название: American Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan: From Perry to Obama ISBN: 1498532330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498532334 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 41580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: American Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan: From Perry to Obama presents a panoramic survey of American images and ideas about Japan-past, present, and future.
The Blue-Eyed Enemy is a comprehensive account of the interwoven histories of the three major archipelago-nations of the West Pacific during the years of the Second World War. Theodore Friend examines Japanese colonialism in Indonesia and the Philippines as an example of recurring patterns of domination and repression in that region. He depicts Japanese rule in Greater East Asia as expressive of the folly of the general who exhorted his troops to annihilate the blue-eyed enemy and their black slaves. At the same time he clearly shows where the return of Western power aimed at new links between conqueror and conquered, or lords and bondsmen. Throughout the work one encounters an infectious sympathy for those afflicted by imperialism and racism from whatever source, at whatever time.
The book is based on documentary research in Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, as well as in the United States and the Netherlands, and on over one hundred interviews with major actors and key observers of the era. The analysis balances an eclectic use of social science perspectives with a humanistic concreteness, and leads to new understanding of leaders like Sukarno and Hatta, Jose P. Laurel and Benigno Aquino, Sr., and Generals Yamashita and MacArthur. As comparative tropical history, it elucidates the contrasting cultural traditions and political psychologies of Indonesia and the Philippines and explains why 1945 was a year of dramatic contrast: reoccupation and revolution for the first country, and liberation and restoration for the latter.
Originally published in 1988.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Автор: Haruhiro Fukui; Peter H. Merkl; Hubertus Muller-Gr Название: The Politics of Economic Change in Postwar Japan and West Germany ISBN: 1349226165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349226160 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book begins with an editors` introduction that provides a conceptual setting for a comparative study of the role of policy in the development of the postwar Japanese and West German economies. It then offers detailed comparative analyses of developments in the two countries on seven substantive topics: an overview of macroeconomic change;
Автор: Friend Theodore Название: The Blue-Eyed Enemy: Japan Against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945 ISBN: 0691602778 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691602776 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 58080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Blue-Eyed Enemy is a comprehensive account of the interwoven histories of the three major archipelago-nations of the West Pacific during the years of the Second World War. Theodore Friend examines Japanese colonialism in Indonesia and the Philippines as an example of recurring patterns of domination and repression in that region. He depicts Jap
Автор: Paul Hendrix Clark Название: The Perry Expedition and the "Opening of Japan to the West, " 18531873: A Short History with Documents ISBN: 1624668860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781624668869 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 27150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perrys squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had already fended off similarly unwelcome intrusions by the French, the Russians, the Dutch, and the British. These Western imperialists had the power and the means to force Japan into the kinds of treaties that would effectively spell the end of Japans autonomy, maybe even its existence as an independent country. At the same moment, Japan was also grappling with a serious insurrection, the death of an emperor, and the death of a shogunas well as with a series of natural disasters and associated famines. The Japanese response to this incredible series of catastrophes would permanently alter the balance of geopolitical power around the world. Drawing on the best recent scholarship, this short introductory volume examines the motivations and maneuvers of the major participants in the conflict and sets the "opening" of Japan in the context of broader global history. Selections from twenty-nine primary sources provide firsthand accounts of the event from a variety of perspectives. Several illustrations are also included, along with a note on historiographic interpretation.
Автор: Gale John Название: The Missouri Expedition 1818-1820: The Journal of Surgeon John Gale and Related Documents ISBN: 0806151390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806151397 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 12500.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Repeated clashes between American fur traders and the Plains Indians following the War of 1812 lent urgency to demands that the United States government protect its territory in the West. To remedy the situation, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun planned a military occupation of the upper Mississippi and Missouri River valleys through a cordon of army posts stretching from Green Bay on the Great Lakes west to Montana. Calhoun projected a troop movement, called the Yellowstone Expedition, that grew from one expedition to three--the Missouri, the Mississippi, and the Scientific Expeditions. The Missouri Expedition, described in this volume, was the first venture to implement Calhoun's plan. During the summer of 1818 the expedition, under the command of Colonel Thomas A. Smith, traveled up the Missouri River in keelboats to Cow Island, near present-day Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where a winter camp was built. Defiant bands of American Indians robbed the soldiers of horses, guns, boats, and food, also attacking white traders and messengers along the river. In February 1819, Calhoun appointed Colonel Henry Atkinson, the most experienced officer of the Rifle Regiment, to the command. By summer the troops continued upriver to Council Bluffs, where they built Cantonment Missouri. Expedition surgeon John Gale's account of the Missouri Expedition captures the color and excitement of exploration while revealing the grinding effort and stark hardship of army life in the early nineteenth century. Editor Roger L. Nichols, who established the authorship of the journal, includes expedition letters and military orders to enhance Gale's authentic narrative.
Автор: J. Willett Spalding Название: The Japan Expedition: Japan and Around the World ISBN: 1536171549 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536171549 Издательство: Nova Science Рейтинг: Цена: 215410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book is a firsthand account of three visits to the Japanese empire with sketches of Madeira, St. Helena, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon, Singapore, China, and Loo-Choo by J.-?W. Spalding while he was aboard the U.-?S. Steam-Frigate Mississippi.
Автор: Michael A. Rutz Название: King Leopolds Congo and the "Scramble for Africa ": A Short History with Documents ISBN: 1624666574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781624666575 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 80070.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "King Leopold of Belgiums exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo Free State, Leopolds private colony, was a unique political construct that opened the door to the savage exploitation of the Congos natural and human resources by international corporations. The resulting red rubber scandal—which laid bare a fundamental contradiction between the European propagation of free labor and civilization and colonial governments acceptance of violence and coercion for productivitys sake—haunted all imperial powers in Africa. Featuring a clever introduction and judicious collection of documents, Michael Rutzs book neatly captures the drama of one kings quest to build an empire in Central Africa—a quest that began in the name of anti-slavery and free trade and ended in the brutal exploitation of human lives. This volume is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in the history of colonial rule in Africa ." —Jelmer Vos, University of Glasgow
Автор: Marshall David Weston Название: Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West ISBN: 1682684423 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682684429 Издательство: Wiley Цена: 13720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "If you seek vicarious adventure, these pages await the armchair explorer." --Providence Journal
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