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Book Collected Works of Ernest Mason Satow  Collected papers  1864 1927  5 v

Download or read book Collected Works of Ernest Mason Satow Collected papers 1864 1927 5 v written by Sir Ernest Mason Satow and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collected Works of Ernest Mason Satow  Collected papers  1864 1927  5 v

Download or read book Collected Works of Ernest Mason Satow Collected papers 1864 1927 5 v written by Sir Ernest Mason Satow and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books on Japan in Western Languages Recently Acquired by the National Diet Library

Download or read book Books on Japan in Western Languages Recently Acquired by the National Diet Library written by Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Reprints

Download or read book Guide to Reprints written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British National Bibliography

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 2492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Reprints 2002

Download or read book Guide to Reprints 2002 written by Irene Izod and published by K. G. Saur. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Japan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Henshall
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2012-04-17
  • ISBN : 0230346626
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book A History of Japan written by Kenneth Henshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's impact on the modern world has been enormous. It occupies just one 300th of the planet's land area, yet came to wield one sixth of the world's economic power. Just 150 years ago it was an obscure land of paddy fields and feudal despots. Within 50 years it became a major imperial power – it's so-called 'First Miracle'. After defeat in the Second World War, when Japan came close to annihilation, within 25 years it recovered remarkably to become the world's third biggest economy – it's 'Second Miracle'. It is now not only an economic superpower, but also a technological and cultural superpower. True miracles have no explanation: Japan's 'miracles' do. The nation's success lies in deeply ingrained historical values, such as a pragmatic determination to succeed. The world can learn much from Japan, and its story is told in these pages. Covering the full sweep of Japanese history, from ancient to contemporary, this book explores Japan's enormous impact on the modern world, and how vital it is to examine the past and culture of the country in order to full understand its achievements and responses. Now in its third edition, this book is usefully updated and revised.

Book The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War  Revolution  and Peace  Stanford University

Download or read book The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace Stanford University written by Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diplomatic Theory from Machiavelli to Kissinger

Download or read book Diplomatic Theory from Machiavelli to Kissinger written by G. Berridge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-03-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introductory guide for students to four centuries of diplomatic thought. Since diplomacy as we know it was created during the Renaissance in Italy, a number of major figures have reflected on the place of diplomacy in foreign affairs and the problems associated with its pursuit. These include statesmen, international lawyers and historians, most of whom had experience as diplomats of the first or second rank. This book examines the thought of some of the most important of them, from Niccolò Machiavelli in the early sixteenth century to Henry Kissinger in the late twentieth century.

Book Jokichi Takamine  1854 1922  and Caroline Hitch Takamine  1866 1954

Download or read book Jokichi Takamine 1854 1922 and Caroline Hitch Takamine 1866 1954 written by William Shurtleff and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2012 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essentials of Shinto

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  • Author : Stuart Picken
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1994-11-22
  • ISBN : 0313369798
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Essentials of Shinto written by Stuart Picken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-11-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shinto is finally receiving the attention it deserves as a fundamental component of Japanese culture. Nevertheless, it remains a remarkably complex and elusive phenomenon to which Western categories of religion do not readily apply. A knowledge of Shinto can only proceed from a basic understanding of Japanese shrines and civilization, for it is closely intermingled with the Japanese way of life and continues to be a vital natural religion. This book is a convenient guide to Shinto thought. As a reference work, the volume does not offer a detailed critical study of all aspects of Shinto. Instead, it overviews the essential teachings of Shinto and provides the necessary cultural and historical context for understanding Shinto as a dynamic force in Japanese civilization. The book begins with an historical overview of Shinto, followed by a discussion of Japanese myths. The volume then discusses the role of shrines, which are central to Shinto rituals. Other portions of the book discuss the various Shinto sects and the evolution of Shinto from the Heian period to the present. Because Japanese terms are central to Shinto, the work includes a glossary.

Book Liberal Barbarism

Download or read book Liberal Barbarism written by E. Ringmar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Liberal Barbarism, Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace north-west of Beijing - at the hands of British and French armies. Yuanmingyuan was the emperor's own theme-park, a perfect world, a vision of paradise, which housed one of the greatest collections of works of art ever assembled. The intellectual puzzle which the book addresses concerns why the Europeans, bent on "civilizing" the Chinese, engaged in this act of barbarism. The answer is provided through an analysis of the performative aspect of the confrontation between Europe and China, focusing on the differences in the way their respective international systems were conceptualized. Ringmar reveals that the destruction of Yuanmingyuan represented the Europeans' campaign to "shock and awe" the Chinese, thereby forcing them to give up their way of organizing international relations. The contradictions which the events of 1860 exemplify - the contradiction between civilization and barbarism - is a theme running through all European (and North American) relations with the rest of the world since, including, most recently, the US war in Iraq.

Book The Practice of Diplomacy

Download or read book The Practice of Diplomacy written by Keith Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the unstable international conditions of the post Cold War world, the role of diplomacy has taken on increasing importance with the greater complexity of relationships between international power centres. The Practice of Diplomacy tracks the historical development of diplomatic relations and methods from the earliest period up to their current transformations in the late twentieth century, showing how they have changed to encompass new technological advances and the needs of modern international environments. This coherent and accessible text brings the history of diplomacy fully up to date, exploring altered perspectives and newly emerging practices resulting from United Nations diplomacy and recent political developments in Eastern and central Europe, including the former Yugoslavia.

Book Tobacco in History and Culture

Download or read book Tobacco in History and Culture written by Jordan Goodman and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, presenting entries from "Native Americans" to "Zimbabwe," is a social and cultural history of tobacco that charts its story from pre-Columbian America to the present global economy.

Book The High Commissioners

Download or read book The High Commissioners written by Carl Bridge and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marks the centenary of the posting of the first Australian High Commissioner in London, so beginning what is today Australia's oldest diplomatic mission. In 1910, when Sir George Reid was appointed its first High Commissioner in London, Australia was a self-governing but not yet sovereign state and the Australian Governor-General remained the most important channel of communication between the Australian and United Kingdom governments until the late 1920s. The book traces the history of the office and in doing so illuminates the larger story of Australian-United Kingdom relations in the twentieth century, the evolution of Australia from British colony to sovereign state and the gradual transition of the United Kingdom from head of an empire to member of the European Union.

Book Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era  1868 1912

Download or read book Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era 1868 1912 written by Noboru Koyama and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Paperback). CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 800th ANNIVERSARY EDITION. This well-researched history, first written by Noboru Koyama and published in 1999 in Tokyo, has been translated by Ian Ruxton. This fascinating case study is centred on the first Japanese graduate of Cambridge University, mathematician and academic Kikuchi Dairoku (1855-1917). Others who went on to distinguished careers include the scholar and statesman Suematsu Kencho (1855-1920) and the scholar-diplomat Inagaki Manjiro (1861-1908). This story, told for the first time in English, should interest all students of the Meiji era. The book includes nine black & white images, an introduction, a preface, seven appendices, an expanded bibliography and an improved index. Hardcover and download are also available on lulu.com. (KINDLE EDITION NOW ON AMAZON.COM)"...[T]his is of interest to historians and Cambridge graduates alike." (Kansai Time Out, June 2006, p. 24)

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    Book Details:
  • Author : Basil Hall Chamberlain
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book written by Basil Hall Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: