Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan 9780824861155

Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868 9780520928305

This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including ma

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Toward Restoration: The Growth of Political Consciousness in Tokugawa Japan [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520343085

H.D. Harootunian has provided a new preface for the paperback edition of his classic study Toward Restoration, the first

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Urban Networks in Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan 9781400870936

Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan were unusually urbanized premodern societies where about one half of the world'

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Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed 9780824863227

Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan was a best-seller from the moment it was published in London in 1727. Born in

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Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500-1650 [1 ed.] 0691053081, 9780691053080

These papers by leading specialists on sixteenth-century Japan explore Japan's transition from medieval (Chusei) to

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Urban Open Space+: Strategies in between Architecture and Open Space Planning 9783868599848, 9783868597035

Commonly used and designed open spaces are anchor points in the city and a possible response to the consequences of urba

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State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu 0691054010

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Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan 9780226524719

What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything—it is an abstract an

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Education in Tokugawa Japan 0203845404, 9780415564984, 9780203843178, 9780203845400, 9780415587594, 041558759X

1. Scholarship and education : a general survey of the period -- 2. The aims of samurai education in the Tokugawa -- 3.

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Japan in Transition: From Tokugawa to Meiji 0691054592, 0691102457

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