Tropics of Savagery : The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame [1 ed.] 9780520947665, 9780520265783

Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire 9781785331336

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were.

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The Empire of Signs. Semiotic Essays on Japanese Culture. Foundations of Semiotics 9027232784, 9789027232786

Like Roland Barthes' well-known book,L'Empire des signes, from which the title of the present collection is ta

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Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia [1 ed.] 9789004253605, 9789067183680

Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscap

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Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline 9781501729089

In making its arguments, Empire of Hope challenges how we read the relations between emotion and politics by arguing—unl

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The Japanese Mind: Essentials of Japanese Philosophy and Culture 9780824843052

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Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire 9780812207118

Rebellion and Savagery examines the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and its aftermath on an imperial scale. The event marked a t

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The Culture of Japanese Fascism 9780822390701

Focusing on Japan, scholars of history, literature, film, art history, and anthropology demonstrate the necessity of und

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The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion 9781134168743, 1134168748

The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection t

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Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy 9781501707360

The Liberal Democratic Party, which dominated postwar Japan, lost power in the early 1990s. During that same period, Jap

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The tropics of empire, why Columbus sailed south to the Indies 9780262232647, 2007020947

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