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Author : Richard J. Pearson
Release : 1986
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Windows on the Japanese Past by : Richard J. Pearson
Download or read book Windows on the Japanese Past written by Richard J. Pearson. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard J. Pearson (Ed)
Release : 1986
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Book Synopsis Windows on the Japanese Past by : Richard J. Pearson (Ed)
Download or read book Windows on the Japanese Past written by Richard J. Pearson (Ed). This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William M. Tsutsui
Release : 2009-07-20
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Companion to Japanese History by : William M. Tsutsui
Download or read book A Companion to Japanese History written by William M. Tsutsui. This book was released on 2009-07-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies
Author : Conrad Totman
Release : 2014-09-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A History of Japan by : Conrad Totman
Download or read book A History of Japan written by Conrad Totman. This book was released on 2014-09-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, government and politics, culture, literature, media, foreign relations, imperialism, and industrialism. Updated to include an epilogue on Japan today and tomorrow. Now includes more on women in history and more on international relations. Bibliographical listings have been updated and enlarged. Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.
Author : Ann Kumar
Release : 2008-11-24
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Globalizing the Prehistory of Japan by : Ann Kumar
Download or read book Globalizing the Prehistory of Japan written by Ann Kumar. This book was released on 2008-11-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This iconoclastic work on the prehistory of Japan and of South East Asia challenges entrenched views on the origins of Japanese society and identity. The social changes that took place in Japan in the time-period when the Jomon culture was replaced by the Yayoi culture were of exceptional magnitude, going far beyond those of the so-called Neolithic Revolution in other parts of the world. They included not only a new way of life based on wet-rice agriculture but also the introduction of metalworking in both bronze and iron, and furthermore a new architecture functionally and ritually linked to rice cultivation, a new religion, and a hierarchical society characterized by a belief in the divinity of the ruler. Because of its immense and enduring impact the Yayoi period has generally been seen as the very foundation of Japanese civilization and identity. In contrast to the common assumption that all the Yayoi innovations came from China and Korea, this work combines exciting new scientific evidence from such different fields as rice genetics, DNA and historical linguistics to show that the major elements of Yayoi civilization actually came, not from the north, but from the south.
