Автор: Amy Stanley

This book traces the social history of early modern Japan’s sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal code …

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo – now known as Tokyo – and a portrait of a great city on the brink of …

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A ‘;captivating’ (The Washington …

Ein faszinierendes Panorama der japanischen Kultur und Historie – basierend auf den Briefen einer unbeugsamen Frau. Edo, 1830: Die Stadt, die wir als Tokio kennen, ist das größte urbane Zentrum der W …

We live at a time in history where information is literally at our fingertips and social media gives us instant access to anyone and anything. How do we sort out the facts? How can we recognize truth …