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Black eggs : poems
Kurihara Sadako was born in Hiroshima in 1913, and she was there on August 6, 1945. Already a poet before she experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she used her poetic talents to describe the blast and its aftermath. In 1946, despite the censorship of the American Occupation, she published Kuroi tamago (Black Eggs), poems from before, during, and immediately after the war. This volume in…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472127634
- Collation
- xx + 330 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 895.615 SAD b
The territory of Japan : its history and legal basis
This Open Access book carefully examines the legal and historical bases of the territory of Japan as a modern State from the Meiji period to 2002. A new preface summarizes key developments in the situation up through 2022. Japan’s current territory is stipulated by the Potsdam Declaration (1945) and the Treaty of Peace with Japan (1951); it includes the Northern Territories, the Senkaku Is…
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- 2
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- 9789819930135
- Collation
- xxi, 185p.; ill.
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- -
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- 341.420952 THE k
Woman between two kingdoms : Dara Rasami and the making of modern Thailand
"Woman Between Two Kingdoms explores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam in Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in a kingdom near Siam called Lan Na, Dara served as both hostage and diplomat for her family and nation. Thought of as a ""harem"" by the West, Siam's Inner Palace actually formed a nexus between the domestic an…
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- 9781501755507
- Collation
- xii + 180 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 305.309593 CAS w
Island fantasia : imagining subjects on the military frontline between China …
The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009023481
- Collation
- xviii; 310p; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 951.249 ISL W
Spatial histories of occupation : colonialism, conquest and foreign control i…
This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and was shaped by new interpretations and typologies of ‘space’. With case studies across South, Southeast and East Asia and through a variety of disciplinary perspecti…
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781350252622
- Collation
- xii, 264p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 950.4 SPA b
Revolutionary bodies: Chinese dance and the socialist legacy
This book examines the history of concert dance in China from 1935 to 2015, with a focus on Chinese dance and its relationship to revolutionary performance culture in PRC history. The book argues that Chinese dance, not revolutionary ballet, was the primary legacy of Maoist dance research and innovation. Showing the relationship between dance and politics, it discusses dance developments during…
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- edision 16
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- 9780520971905
- Collation
- xv, 305p.: ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 792.80951 WIL r
Negotiating Mughal law : a family of landlords across three Indian empires
Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the twentieth century. By exploring their daily interactions with imperial elites as well as villagers and marauders, Chatterjee offers a new histor…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108623391
- Collation
- xii, 233p. ; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 349.5430903
Island Fantasia
The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009023481
- Collation
- xvii, 330p, ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 951.249 WEI
Babad Tanah Jawi, the chronicle of Java: the revised prose version of C.F. Wi…
The revised prose version of the Babad Tanah Jawi was originally prepared by C.F. Winter Sr. (1799-1859), with the twofold aim of providing Javanese-language teaching material and of setting a standard for formal Javanese prose writing. At that time, Javanese was almost exclusively written in verse, which was not a medium suitable for the modern world that was dawning on Java. Although Winter a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789400604230
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- XXXVIII, 1045 p.
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- -
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- 091 BAB B
A global history of ideas in the language of law
This book argues that the narrowing focus of the global history of ideas on narratives in historical research, philosophy and political theory neglects the fact that the central concepts of the history of political ideas are articulated in the language of law. Key figures of the history of ideas, like Kant, Hegel and Weber, engaged deeply with the philosophy and sociology of law. This monograph…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783944773315
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- xi, 309 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Global Perspectives on Legal History volume 16
- Call Number
- 340.14 SCH a
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