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Authors: Etsuko Takushi Crissey
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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The American military started building its massive base complex in Okinawa at the end of World War II. During the decade that followed, US forces seized vast ar
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Approximately 400 Okinawan women every year have married American servicemen and returned with them to live in the United States. Etsuko Takushi Crissey has tra
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The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed
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The Qing Empire and the Opium War
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A comprehensive study of the Opium War that presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists.