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Provides Instructions For Thirteen Projects With Accompanying Essays Detailing Life On The Farm, Including Spinning And Dying Wool, Sheep Sheering, And Knit...

“This lively, provocative study challenges the widely held belief that the Japanese did not intend to invade the Hawaiian Islands.” ―Choice“A disqui...

gregory Kasza Examines State-society Relations In Interwar Japan Through A Case Study Of Public Policy Toward Radio, Film, Newspapers, And Magazines. Cate...

This book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. ...

A dramatic retelling of our nation's past by today's preeminent multiculturalism scholar, Ronald Takaki, this book examines America's history in "a differen...

"In this collection of seventeen essays, leading scholars address the question of what kind and what degree of change accompanied the political events known...

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which...

The Russo-japanese War And The Peace Conference That Followed It At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Marked A Turning Point In The History Of Both Participants An...

In A Decade Of Constant Crises, Perhaps The Most Formidable Challenge That Americans Faced In The 1970s Was The Energy Shortage. An Era Of Inexpensive And S...

Walter McDougall offers an original analysis of Versailles diplomacy from the standpoint of the power that had the most direct interest and took the first i...

How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of th...

Repeatedly In The Twentieth Century, The United States Has Been Involved In Confrontations With Other Countries, Each With The Potential For Widespread Inte...

The anti-Vietnam War movement marked the first time in American history that record numbers marched and protested to an antiwar tune-on college campuses, i...

No single event since World War II has marked this country’s foreign policy and national image as deeply as did the war in Vietnam. Vietnam and America is...

During World War II, 110,000 citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry were banished from their homes and confined behind barbed wire for two and a ...

China in DisintegrationCategories: History AsiaChina

For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Ja...

This definitive and thorough exploration of the causes and course of the Vietnamese Revolution of August 1945 provides new insights from hitherto unexploit...

This Book Presents A Global Narrative Of The Origins Of The Modern World From 1400 To The Present. Unlike Most Studies, Which Assume That The Rise Of The We...

Presents A New Approach To Capitalism, Revealing How It's Fully Consistent With Jesus's Teachings And The Christian Tradition, While Also Showing Why This S...

As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, s...

Edited By John W. Hall And Jeffrey P. Mass ; Contributors, David L. Davis ... [et Al.]. Originally Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1974. Inclu...

This Work Analyzes Events Surrounding The Yokohama Incident (1942-1945), Which Led To The Arrest Of Dozens Of Journalists And Researchers In Japan During Th...

The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart t...

Book by Minear, Richard H.Categories: History AsiaJapan

this Is A Fascinating Analysis Of The Meaning Of Rice As A Symbol Of Personal And Particularly Of Social Identity In Japanese Culture.--robert N. Bellah o...

Book by Minear, Richard H.Categories: History AsiaJapan

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that d...

Since Operation Desert Storm Against Iraq, Few Have Questioned The Notion That Countries Sometimes Go To War For Control Of Natural Resources. However, This...

Roger Dingman. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 287-310.Categories: History Europe Great BritainEngland

Between them, husband and wife authors Beevor and Cooper have written a number of nonfiction works; both were appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et de...

Drawing on his diplomatic experience and expertise, George F. Kennan offers an informed, plain-spoken appraisal of United States foreign policy. His evalua...

Battle Of Gettysburg Maps -- Union Brigades -- Corps (reynolds, Doubleday, Newton) -- 1st Division (wadsworth) -- 1st Brigade (meredith) -- 2nd Brigade (cut...

Only now can the full scope of the war in the Pacific be fully understood. Historian Ronald Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an ...

Draws On Recently Declassified Documents To Chronicle One Of The Most Disastrous Presidencies In U.s. History, Presenting A Portrait Of A Brilliant Man Over...

A documented survey of the customs and social conditions of the four traditional classes of Japanese society from 1600 to 1850Categories: History AsiaJapan ...

"Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew’s flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground.” —USA T...

Two Noted Professors Offer Easily Remembered Rules For Using History Effectively In Day-to-day Management Of Governmental And Corporate Affairs To Avoid Cos...

Ezra F. Vogel. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 259-265.Categories: History AsiaJapan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * USA TODAY! BESTSELLER In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chr...

It Has Been Fifty Years Since Japan Admitted Defeat And Accepted The Terms Of The Potsdam Declaration Following World War Ii. At The Time, Japan Was In Sham...

A contributing source for the Warner Bros.’ film Richard Jewell starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde and Paul Walter Hauser! "Metic...

The Famous Mather Byles, the Noted Boston Tory Preacher, Poet, and WitCategories: History United StatesGeneral

Seb Hunter wasn't just a heavy metal fan. He was a blind devotee who threw away his education and future prospects to become a rock star. In Hell Bent for ...

Douglas H. Erwin. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [275]-292) And Index.Categories: Science & Math Earth SciencesGeology

The Highly Anticipated Memoir From Hip-hop Icon Ross Chronicles His Coming Of Age Amid Miami's Crack Epidemic, His Star-studded Controversies, And His Unsto...

Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to fami...

Did you ever wonder what life might be like in a Native American village? What would you eat, and how would you pass the long winter nights? In this book, ...