Andrew Gordon is Professor of History at Duke University. His latest book, Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (California, 1990), won the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association.
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Andrew Gordon: Postwar Japan as History
Japan’s catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this boo …
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Andrew Gordon: Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan’s prewar politi …
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€35.99
Andrew Gordon: Fabricating Consumers
Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine’s remarkable journe …
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James Daybell & Andrew Gordon: Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain
The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate tho …
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€89.99
Lee Trepanier & Gloria L. Cronin: A Political Companion to Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century’s most influential, respected, and honored writers. His novels The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler’s Planet won the National Book Award, …
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€21.99
Andrew Gordon: Rules of the Game
Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social …
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€31.99
Mark Chambers & Stephen Gordon: Bovine Tuberculosis
This book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine t …
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Andrew Gordon & Brent Coleman: Temperate Agroforestry Systems
Agroforestry is a land use system that allows for the concurrent production of trees and agricultural crops and/or animals from the same piece of land. It has a rich history of development and has be …
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€69.99
Andrew Gordon & Mikiso Hane: Portraits Of The Japanese Workplace
In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan”s most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?light and shadow? of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood a …
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€56.31
Andrew Gordon & Mikiso Hane: Portraits Of The Japanese Workplace
In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan”s most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?light and shadow? of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood a …
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€56.60
Gloria L. Cronin & Lee Trepanier: Political Companion to Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century’s most influential, respected, and honored writers. His novels The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler’s Planet won the National Book Award, …
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€346.65
James Daybell & Andrew Gordon: Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1690
Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century …
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€51.25
James Daybell & Andrew Gordon: Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1690
Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century …
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€51.24
Andrew Gordon & Thomas Rist: Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England
The early modern period inherited a deeply-ingrained culture of Christian remembrance that proved a platform for creativity in a remarkable variety of forms. From the literature of church ritual to t …
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€64.44
Andrew Gordon & Thomas Rist: Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England
The early modern period inherited a deeply-ingrained culture of Christian remembrance that proved a platform for creativity in a remarkable variety of forms. From the literature of church ritual to t …
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€64.09
Andrew Gordon: Rules of the Game
Winner of the Longman’s History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation afte …
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€11.99
Michael T. Cox & Anita Raja: Metareasoning
Experts report on the latest artificial intelligence research concerning reasoning about reasoning itself. The capacity to think about our own thinking may lie at the heart of what it means to be bot …
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€101.65
Andrew Gordon: Wages of Affluence
Andrew Gordon goes to the core of the Japanese enterprise system, the workplace, and reveals a complex history of contest and confrontation. The Japanese model produced a dynamic economy which owed a …
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€104.70
Merle Goldman & Andrew Gordon: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asiaaddresses provocative themes concerning the experience of particular nations and of East Asia as a whole. It explores the turbulent process of integra …
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Ann Farnsworth-Alvear: Dulcinea in the Factory
Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellin was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a &q …
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S. A. Smith: Like Cattle and Horses
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up f …
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€39.84
Nancy L. Green: Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work
Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. T …
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€40.88
Dirk Hoerder: Cultures in Contact
A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the scop …
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€57.31
Eva Fodor: Working Difference
Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women’s professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Eva Fodor examines women’s …
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