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Language: en
Pages: 1130
Authors: Louis-Frédéric
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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"Knowing Japan and the Japanese better," Louis Frédéric states in the introduction to this encyclopedia, "is one of the necessities of modern life." The Japan
The Taming of the Samurai
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Eiko Ikegami
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-03-25 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping inves
Hired Swords
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Karl F. Friday
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-03-01 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Tracing the evolution of state military institutions from the seventh through the twelfth centuries, this book challenges much of the received wisdom of Western
The World Turned Upside Down
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Pierre Souyri
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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This unique synthetic history of Japan's "middle ages" is a remarkable portrait of a complex period in the evolution of Japan. Using a wide variety of sources--
Laughter in the Shadows
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Stuart E Methven
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-15 - Publisher: Naval Institute Press

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This memoir of a CIA operations officer captures the spirit of the early years of the Agency, a period sometimes described as its "finest hours." Using the name