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Coral And Concrete - Remembering Kwajalein Atoll Between Japan, America, And The Marshall Islands

by Greg Dvorak

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 Explores intersections of environment, identity, empire, and memory in Kwajalein Atoll. Approaching the multiple ""atollscapes"" of Kwajalein's past and present as ancestral land, colonial outpost, battlefield, weapons-testing base, and home, Dvorak delves into personal narratives and collective mythologies from contradictory vantage points.
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Chinese Colonial Entanglements - Commodities And Traders In The Southern Asia Pacific, 1880-1950

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 Takes a new geographical approach to understanding the Chinese diaspora, shining a light on Chinese engagement in labour, trade, and industry in the British colonies of the southern Asia Pacific.
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A Year In Seventeenth-Century Kyoto - Edo-Period Writings On Annual Ceremonies, Festivals, And Customs

by Gerald Groemer

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 Explains Japanese conceptions of time and space within which annual celebrations took place and outlines how these were chronicled, described, and interpreted up to the seventeenth century. The book also offers translations of writings from the seventeenth century that describe the dates, sites, meanings, and histories of many annual events.
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Across Species And Cultures - Whales, Humans, And Pacific Worlds

by Akamine Jun, Bathsheba Demuth, Billie Jane Lythberg, Jakobina Arch, Jason Colby, Jonathan Clapperton, Ryan Tucker Jones e Susan A. Lebo

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 Offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The contributors, from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies.
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Mirroring The Past - The Writing And Use Of History In Imperial China

by On-Cho Ng e Q. Edward Wang

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 Far more than a record of the past, history to the Chinese is the magister vitae (teacher of life): the storehouse of moral lessons and bureaucratic precedents. Mirroring the Past presents a comprehensive history of traditional Chinese historiography from antiquity to the mid-Qing period.
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Food Safety After Fukushima - Scientific Citizenship And The Politics Of Risk

by Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna

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 Examines the process by which notions about what is safe to eat were formulated after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. The book's central argument is that as citizens informed themselves about potential risks, they also became savvier in their assessment of the government's handling of the crisis.
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Invincible And Righteous Outlaw - The Korean Hero Hong Gildong In Literature, History, And Culture

by Minsoo Kang

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 One of the most important and popular premodern Korean novels, The Story of Hong Gildong is a fast-paced adventure story about the illegitimate son of a nobleman who becomes the leader of a band of honest outlaws. Invincible and Righteous Outlaw is the first book-length study of the novel in English.
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Across Species And Cultures - New Histories Of Pacific Whaling

by Jakobina Arch, Jason Colby, Jonathan Clapperton, Joshua L. Reid, Noell Wilson, Rhonda Foster e Wayne James Ngata

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 Offers a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies.

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