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Masters Of The World Hidden behind many of today’s major news stories, the Bilderberg Group is an elite clique of the most powerful names in politics, media, business, and finance, who want to impose …

This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self …

This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the ‘Wa …

Poland in the Modern World presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present, incorporating new perspectives from social and cultural history and positioning it in a b …

Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this t …

Taiwan’s modern legal system–quite different from those of both traditional China and the People’s Republic–has evolved since the advent of Japanese rule in 1895. Japan has gradually adopted Wester …

The Essential Asian Folklore Collection of classic folk tales and short stories from Asia:Chinese Folklore Tales Japanese Fairy-Tales Philippine Folk Tales Philippine Folklore Stories A Chinese Wonde …

Pioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies. While current scholarship on Tokugawa Japan (1603–1868) t …

A Companion to Reconstruction Presidents presents a series of original essays that explore a variety of important issues, themes, and debates associated with the presidencies of Andrew Johnson, Ulyss …

A concise history of labor and work in America from the birth of the Republic to the Industrial Age and beyond From the days of Thomas Jefferson, Americans believed that they could sustain a capitali …