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Hardcover. In Defensive Positions, Noell Wilson shows how control of coastal defense by regional domains exacerbated the shogunate's inability to respond to major military and political challenges as Japan transitioned from an early modern system of parcelized, local maritime defense to one of centralized, national security in the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 257 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBW; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 341 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504349
- ISBN
- 9780674504349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.32
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Paperback. In this richly illustrated book, Shih-shan Susan Huang investigates the visual culture of Daoism, China's primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to earlier and later times. Huang shows how Daoist image-making goes beyond the usual dichotomy of text and image to incorporate writings in image design. Num Pages: 526 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 254 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1252.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504288
- ISBN
- 9780674504288
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.24
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Paperback. The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. Kennedy follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBJM; HBTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674503861
- ISBN
- 9780674503861
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.99
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Hardcover. Using the new tools of GIS and social network analysis, Nicolas Tackett shows that the great Tang aristocratic families were more successful than previously believed in adapting to social and economic changes in the seventh and eighth centuries. Tang political influence waned only after many of them were killed during the three decades after 880. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 310 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: HBJF; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492059
- ISBN
- 9780674492059
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.60
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Hardcover. Wai-yee Li examines the discursive space of women in seventeenth-century China. Using texts written by women or by men writing in a feminine voice, as well as writings that turn women into signifiers of lamentation or nostalgia, Li probes the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition and subsequent moments of national trauma. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 625 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSB; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1342.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492042
- ISBN
- 9780674492042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.29€ 64.03
€ 69.29
€ 64.03
Hardcover. Hiraku Shimoda places the origin of modern Japanese regionalism in the tense relationship between region and nation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This study shows that "region," often seen as a hard, natural place that impedes national unity, is in fact a supple spatial category that can be made to reinforce nationalist sensibilities. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 180 pages, map. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492011
- ISBN
- 9780674492011
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.32
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Hardcover. Melek Ortabasi reassesses the influence of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), a folk scholar and elite bureaucrat, in shaping modern Japan's cultural identity. Only the second book-length English-language study of Yanagita, this book moves beyond his pioneering work in folk studies to reveal the full range of his contributions as a public intellectual. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; BGL; DSB; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492004
- ISBN
- 9780674492004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.73
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Hardcover. Rise of a Japanese Chinatown focuses on a Chinese immigrant community in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 to the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. It tells the story of how Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state during periods of war and peace. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 270 pages, Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674491984
- ISBN
- 9780674491984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.32
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Hardcover. The first full-length biography of a premodern Japanese nun, The Princess Nun is the story of Bunchi (1619-1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of Enshoji. The study incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi's ascetic practice to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; BGX; HBJF; HRE; JFSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 622.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674491977
- ISBN
- 9780674491977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.60
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Paperback. Averil Cameron refutes an argument by some scholars that Christians did not dialogue after a wall of silence came down in the fifth century AD. Cameron shows that in late antiquity and throughout Byzantium Christians debated and wrote philosophical, literary, and theological dialogues, and she makes a case for their centrality in Greek literature. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 140 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: AGR; DSBB; HBLA; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 6. Weight in Grams: 174.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674428355
- ISBN
- 9780674428355
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.71
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Paperback. Between Thucydides and Polybius focuses on the contribution of fourth-century authors such as Ephorus, Theopompus, and Xenophon to the development of Greek historiography. Essays examine the interface between historiography and rhetoric, while undermining the claim that historians after Thucydides allowed rhetoric to prevail over research. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBAH; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674428348
- ISBN
- 9780674428348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.85
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Paperback. Scholars of the literary aspect of Plato try to reconcile his dialogue form with the expository imperative of philosophical argument. Classicists and philosophers explain this form in terms of rhetorical devices serving didactic goals. David Schur brings literary and classical studies into debate, questioning modern views of Plato's dialogue form. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 246.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417212
- ISBN
- 9780674417212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.78
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Hardcover. Tamara T. Chin explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance ("Silk Road") markets. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 382 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSB; HBJF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 646.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417199
- ISBN
- 9780674417199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.73
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Hardcover. The Korean Economy provides an overview of Korean economic experience since the 1950s, with a focus on the period since democratization in 1987. Chapters analyze the Korean experience from a wide range of economic and social perspectives, as well as describing the country's economic challenges going forward and how they can best be met. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 30. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417182
- ISBN
- 9780674417182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.60
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Hardcover. From the 1910s to the 1940s, a wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist groups swept the Korean cultural scene with differing agendas but shared demands for equality and social justice. Sunyoung Park reconstructs the complex mosaic of colonial leftist culture, focusing on literature as its most fertile and enduring expression. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSB; HBJF; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 634.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417175
- ISBN
- 9780674417175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.60
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Hardcover. Sukhee Lee posits an alternative understanding of the relationship between the state and social elites during the Southern Song and Yuan dynasties. Challenging the assumption of a zero-sum competition between the powers of the state and of local elites, Lee shows that state power and local elite interests were mutually constitutive and reinforcing. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: HBJF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417144
- ISBN
- 9780674417144
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.60
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Hardcover. Investing Japan demonstrates that foreign investment is a vital and misunderstood aspect of Japan's modern economic development. This study investigates the role played by foreign companies in the Japanese experience of modernization, highlighting their identity as key agents in the processes of industrialization and technology transfer. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF; KCM; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 233 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417137
- ISBN
- 9780674417137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.32
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Hardcover. Natasha Heller offers a cultural history of Buddhism through a case study of the Chan master Zhongfeng Mingben. Monks of his stature developed a broad set of cultural competencies for navigating social and intellectual relationships. Heller shows the importance of situating monks as actors within wider sociocultural fields of practice and exchange. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HRAX; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 37. Weight in Grams: 802.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417113
- ISBN
- 9780674417113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.60
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Paperback. The Revolution s aspiration was summed up by the phrase life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet the American founding was also a bid for inclusion in the community of nations. According to Eliga Gould, America aspired to diplomatic recognition under international law and the authority to become an Atlantic colonizing power itself." Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; JPH; JPS; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416949
- ISBN
- 9780674416949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.06
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Paperback. This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War." Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416918
- ISBN
- 9780674416918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.85
€ 27.99
€ 24.85