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Sharing the Contested Ground
Beth Meriam
KEY FEATURE(S) This pioneering ethnographic analysis provides a far-reaching critique of ‘ethnic’ China’s changing cultural topography. The study offers a timely reexamination of the complex and subtle processes of identification and belonging in a ‘Tibetan’ autonomous area (Trindu). This work highlights how policies and social categories are anything but self-evident or monolithic: instead, local people are actively engaged in reinterpreting and modifying official policies in practice.
The 1980s social and economic ‘reform and opening up’ in China has involved limited devolution of power, the localization of fiscal responsibilities and a relaxation of many ‘cultural’ and some ‘relig... |
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From the First Alliance to Post 9/11
Edited by Alessio Patalano
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON
KEY FEATURE(S) This thought-provoking volume explores how, across more than a century, sea power empowered both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and an enabling tool in expeditionary missions to implement courses of actions to preserve national economic and security interests worldwide.
Furthermore, it expands the boundaries of the literature beyond the alliance period by exploring the strategic rationale underpinning the countries’ military policies since the end of the nineteenth c... |
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Faith, Race and Strategy
James Boyd
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
KEY FEATURE(S) This book offers the first in-depth examination of Japanese-Mongolian relations from the late nineteenth century through to the middle of the twentieth century and in the process repositions Mongolia in Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese relations.
Beginning in 1873, with the intrepid journey to Mongolia by a group of Buddhist monks from one of Kyoto’s largest orders, the relationship later included groups and individuals from across Japanese so... |
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From Wenneker to Sasakawa
John Chapman
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This important new study focusing on the ultranationalist regimes in Germany and Japan during the 1930s and 1940s examines in biographical format the roles played by individuals significantly involved in the drive for global hegemony.
Employing a considerable range of new source materials and eyewitness testimony on the German side, it highlights the roles of the Nazi Party ‘enforcer’ and Gestapo representative in East Asia, Josef ... |
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(Hardback)
Brian Burke-Gaffney
NAGASAKI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE
KEY FEATURE(S) Long overdue, this important first full-length account in English of the history of Japan’s first foreign settlement, which for centuries was the country’s only ‘front door’ to the outside world, will be widely welcomed. Following the opening of Japan’s ports in 1859, Nagasaki rapidly became one of Japan’s leading industrial centres, which including shipbuilding, but, other than the history surrounding the atomic bombing of August 1945, in the post-war period, it has been largely overshadowed by interest in the Meiji settlements of Kobe and Yokohama.
The value of the work is reinforced by a 32-page colour plate section which includes some rarely-seen images, as well as an 8-page Bibliography. The author is a full-time professor in the Institute of... |
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(Paperback)
Brian Burke-Gaffney
NAGASAKI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE
KEY FEATURE(S) Long overdue, this important first full-length account in English of the history of Japan’s first foreign settlement, which for centuries was the country’s only ‘front door’ to the outside world, will be widely welcomed. Following the opening of Japan’s ports in 1859, Nagasaki rapidly became one of Japan’s leading industrial centres, which including shipbuilding, but, other than the history surrounding the atomic bombing of August 1945, in the post-war period, it has been largely overshadowed by interest in the Meiji settlements of Kobe and Yokohama.
The value of the work is reinforced by a 32-page colour plate section which includes some rarely-seen images, as well as an 8-page Bibliography. The author is a full-time professor in the Institute of... |
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Michael Dillon
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
By the early twentieth century, decades of conflict and underinvestment had ruined the Chinese economy and attempts by the Guomindang Nationalists to develop industry and trade had hardly begun when J... |
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Two Latecomers on the World Stage, 1890-1945
EDITED by Akira Kudo, Nobuo Tajima, Erich Pauer
KEY FEATURE(S) Now available in English, this three-volume work focusing on the wide-ranging political, military, economic, technological and social interconnections and interconnectedness between the two ‘new powers’ in the first half of the twentieth century was originally published by University of Tokyo Press in 2006 and marks an important milestone in collaboration at the highest level on this subject matter between German and Japanese scholars.
Vol. I: German Weltpolitik and the Emergence of Japan as a Power: 1890-1931
Vol. II: Japanese-German Rapprochement Policy and its Reality: 1931-45
Vol. III: Technology, Thought and Culture – Indi... |
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F. H. King
KEY FEATURE(S) First published in 1926, this classic survey examines the traditional farming methods of the densely populated lands of China, Korea and Japan and shows how fertility can be maintained over many centuries through conserving and utilising natural resources.
Markets: Conservation, East Asian History.
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The Writings of Peter N. Davies
Peter Davies
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
KEY FEATURE(S) Britain’s foremost scholar of the international shipping industry, based at the Centre for Port and Maritime History, University of Liverpool, here examines the growth and development of Japan’s modern shipping and shipbuilding industries across a wide range of topics, through the pre-war, Pacific War and post-war periods, to the transfer of shipping technology, the role of bulk carriers and world trade and the organization and structure of the Japanese merchant navy.
Britain’s foremost scholar of the international shipping industry, based at the Centre for Port and Maritime History, University of Liverpool, here examines the growth and development of Japan’s moder... |
