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The Writings of Louis Allen
Louis Allen
KEY FEATURE(S) It was Louis Allen’s work on Japan which dominated his prodigious output as a scholar, researcher and writer and which received greatest attention internationally. This collection of his writings focuses entirely on his principal fields of research, viz, Japan and the Pacific War, the post-war conflicts in Burma, Malaya and Indochina, and the immediate post-war years in the context of Japan, security and reconciliation.
Importantly, in addition to the 24 essays brought together here from both known and unknown sources, we are pleased to publish for the first time Louis Allen’s own undated autobiographical paper entit... |
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The Writings of Selcuk Esenbel
Selcuk Esenbel
BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL
KEY FEATURE(S) Widely known for her writings on Islam with a particular focus on Turkey and Japan, this volume brings together twenty of the author’s key essays thematically structured as Japan and Islam, Japanese-Ottoman Relations and Japanese-Turkish Interaction, and Reflections on Tokugawa Japan from Turkey.
Awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize for Japanese Studies in 2007, Selçuk Esenbel’s volume will provide an invaluable reference resource for current and future research in an increasingly import... |
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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... |
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The Writings of Lawrence W. Beer
Lawrence W. Beer
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER
KEY FEATURE(S) As one of America’s foremost constitutional scholars on Asia, this collection of Lawrence W.Beer’s writings over the last twenty-five years relating to the key issues of human rights constitutionalism in Asia, with particular reference to Japan and East Asia, will be widely welcomed by students and researchers alike.
The book opens with a review of constitutionalism in Asia and the United States and concludes with a recent examination of Japan’s rejection of war: ‘Japan’s Constitutional Discourse and Performance’.... |
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