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Navigating The Spanish Lake - The Pacific In The Iberian World, 1521-1898

by Edward R. Slack, James B. Tueller e Rainer F. Buschmann

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 Examines Spainâ€™s long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this book investigates the historiographical â€˜Spanish Lakeâ€™ as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim and Basin with the Iberian Atlantic.
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Imperial Islands - Art, Architecture, And Visual Experience In The Us Insular Empire After 1898

by Alejandro T. Acierto, Bonnie M. Miller, Chris Balaschak, Erica Morawski, Ian Morley, Joseph R. Hartman, Paul B. Niell, Stacy L. Kamehiro e Sylvia C. Frain

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 Reimagines the history and cultural politics of art, architecture, and visual experience in the US insular context. The authors propose a new direction of visual culture and spatial experience through nuanced terrains for writing, envisioning, and revising US-American, Caribbean, and Pacific histories.
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Sudden Appearances - The Mongol Turn In Commerce, Belief, And Art

by Roxann Prazniak

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 Exploring art's relationship to the unique commercial and political circumstances of Mongol Eurasia, Sudden Appearances rethinks many art historical puzzles, including the mystery of the Siyah Kalem paintings, the female cup-bearer in the Royal Drinking Scene at Alchi, and the Mongol figures who appear in a Sienese mural.
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Land Of Plants In Motion - Japanese Botany And The World

by Thomas R. H. Havens

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 The first book in any language to examine two companion stories: the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japanese islands evolved an astonishing wealth of plant species, and the growth of Japanese botanical sciences.
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Picturing The Floating World - Ukiyo-E In Context

by Julie Nelson Davis

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 Today we think of ukiyo-e - â€˜the pictures of the floating worldâ€™ - as masterpieces of Japanese art. Yet it is often said that ukiyo-e were little appreciated in their own time. Julie Nelson Davis debunks this myth and demonstrates that ukiyo-e was thoroughly appreciated as a field of artistic production, worthy of connoisseurship by contemporaries.
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Liminality Of The Japanese Empire - Border Crossings From Okinawa To Colonial Taiwan

by Hiroko Matsuda

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 Through archival research and first-hand oral histories, Hiroko Matsuda uncovers the stories of common people's move from Okinawa to colonial Taiwan and describes experiences of Okinawans who had made their careers in colonial Taiwan.
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Iconographies Of Occupation - Visual Cultures In Wang Jingwei'S China, 1939-1945

by Jeremy E. Taylor

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 The first book to address how the ""collaborationist"" Reorganized National Government in Japanese-occupied China sought to visualize its leader, Wang Jingwei; the Chinese people; and China itself. It explores the ways in which this administration sought to present itself to the people over which it ruled at different points between 1939 and 1945.
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Nomads As Agents Of Cultural Change - The Mongols And Their Eurasian Predecessors

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 Brings together a distinguished group of scholars from different disciplines and cultural specializations to explore how nomads played the role of ""agents of cultural change"". The comparative approach of this study, encompassing both a lengthy time span and a vast region, enables a clearer understanding of the key role that Eurasian pastoral nomads played in the history of the Old World.
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Playboy Laughs - The Comedy, Comedians, And Cartoons Of Playboy

by Patty Farmer

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Network Of Knowledge - Western Science And The Tokugawa Information Revolution

by Terrence Jackson

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The Arts Of Governance - Sinitic Political Advice Literature From Medieval Times To The Present

by Hilde De Weerdt

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Unlikely Converts - Improbable Stories Of Faith And What They Teach Us About Evangelism

by Randy Newman

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China Mysteries - Crime Novels From China'S Others

by Jeffrey C. Kinkley

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 Examines more than a hundred China mysteries - many describing and analysing social and economic changes at the centre of modern life in China - to provide a brief history of the genre and analyse the formulaic and original elements of the mysteries.
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Migrant Ecologies - Environmental Histories Of The Pacific World

by Hannah Cutting-Jones, Holger Droessler, James Beattie, Katsuya Hirano, Kieko Matteson e William Matt Cavert

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 The Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their long-distance migrations, and their influences on other parts of the world. This book creates an understanding of the past, present, and futures of the lands, seas, peoples, practices, microbes, animals, plants, and other natural forces that shape the Pacific.
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Making Our Own Destiny - Single Women, Opportunity, And Family In Shanghai, Hong Kong, And Tokyo

by Lynne Y. Nakano

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 Based on ethnographic research and interviews with more than a hundred single women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, this is the first study to compare the views and experiences of single women living in these three great cities - cities that stand at the forefront of the regionâ€™s movement toward later marriage and rising singlehood.
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Migrant Ecologies - Environmental Histories Of The Pacific World

by Hannah Cutting-Jones

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 Ceates an understanding of the past, present, and futures of the lands, seas, peoples, practices, microbes, animals, plants, and other natural forces that shape the Pacific. The book effectively argues for the existence of an interconnected Pacific World environmental history.
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The Mad Mad Murders Of Marigold Way - A Novel

by Raymond Benson

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English-Tahitian, Tahitian-English Dictionary

by Sven Wahlroos

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 The most useful and comprehensive English-Tahitian, Tahitian-English dictionary available. The author, who was a devoted student of Tahitian for more than three decades, provides an extensive introduction to the language with detailed notes on grammar, usage, and pronunciation.
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Bringing Zen Home - The Healing Heart Of Japanese Women'S Rituals

by Paula Arai

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 Healing lies at the heart of Zen in the home, as Paula Arai discovered in her pioneering research on the ritual lives of Zen Buddhist laywomen. She reveals a vital stream of religious practice that flourishes outside the bounds of formal institutions through sacred rites that women develop and transmit to one another.
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Seismic Japan - The Long History And Continuing Legacy Of The Ansei Edo Earthquake

by Gregory Smits

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 The Ansei Edo earthquake shook the shogunâ€™s capital during a year of special religious significance and at a time of particularly vigorous seismic activity. In his investigation of the science, politics, and lore of seismic events in Japan, Gregory Smits examines this earthquake in a broad historical context.
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Spreading Protestant Modernity - Global Perspectives On The Social Work Of The Ymca And Ywca, 1889-1970

by Doina Anca Cretu, Harald Fischer-Tine, Katrin Bromber, Lance Cummings, Lou Antolihao, Paul Hillmer e Ryan Bean

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 Explores the influence of the YMCAâ€™s and YWCAâ€™s work on highly diverse societies in South, Southeast, and East Asia; North America; Africa; and Eastern Europe. The book provides new insights into the evolution of global civil society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its multifarious, seemingly secular, legacies for todayâ€™s world.
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Shipped But Not Sold - Material Culture And The Social Protocols Of Trade During Yemenâ€™S Age Of Coffee

by Nancy Um

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 In the early decades of the eighteenth century, Yemen hosted a bustling community of merchants who sailed to the southern Arabian Peninsula from the east and the west. In Shipped but Not Sold, Nancy Um opens the chests these merchants transported to and from Yemen and examines the cargo holds of their boats to reveal the goods held within.
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Faith In Mount Fuji - The Rise Of Independent Religion In Early Modern Japan

by Janine Anderson Sawada

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 Argues that the rise of the Fuji movement epitomizes a broad transformation in popular religion that took place in early modern Japan. Janine Sawada highlights the importance of independent thinking in these grassroots phenomena, making a compelling case that the new Fuji devotees carved out enclaves for subtle opposition to the status quo.
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Buddhist Law In Burma - A History Of Dhammasattha Texts And Jurisprudence, 1250-1850

by D. Christian Lammerts

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 Provides a history of the dynamic jurisprudence of the dhammasattha legal genre between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries. Based on a study of hundreds of little-known surviving dhammasattha and related manuscripts, the book demonstrates the centrality of law as a crucial discipline of Buddhist knowledge in precolonial Southeast Asia.
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