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  • The Meiji Restoration

    Japan as a Global Nation

    Edited by Harald Fuess, Robert Hellyer ...
    In world history, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ranks as a revolutionary watershed, on a par with the American and French Revolutions. In this volume, leading historians from North America, Europe, and Japan employ global history in novel ways to offer fresh economic, social, political, cultural, and military perspectives on the Meiji Restoration and the subsequent creation of the modern Japanese ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Green with Milk and Sugar

    When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups

    by Robert Hellyer ...
    Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply entwined. Tracing the transpacific tea trade from the eighteenth century onward, Green with Milk and Sugar shows how interconnections between Japan and the United States have influenced the daily habits of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Green with Milk and Sugar

    When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups

    by Robert Hellyer ...
    Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply entwined. Tracing the transpacific tea trade from the eighteenth century onward, Green with Milk and Sugar shows how interconnections between Japan and the United States have influenced the daily habits of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Egyptian Revolution of 1919

    Legacies and Consequences of the Fight for Independence

    Edited by Robert Springborg, Dr H.A. Hellyer ...
    The 1919 Egyptian revolution was the founding event for modern Egypt's nation state. So far there has been no text that looks at the causes, consequences and legacies of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution. This book addresses that gap, with Egyptian and non-Egyptian scholars discussing a range of topics that link back to that crucial event in Egyptian history. Across nine chapters, the book analyzes the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia

    Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections

    Edited by Professor Robert S.G. Fletcher, Associate Professor Robert Hellyer ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
    This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, during the 19th century. It does so by examining how Westerners 'chronicled' their overseas lives in personal letters, diplomatic dispatches, business records, and academic papers. By ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Asia Inside Out

    Changing Times

    by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Heidi Walcher, Victor Lieberman, Nancy Um, Charles J. Wheeler, Kerry Ward0, Robert I. Hellyer1, Anand A. Yang2, Andrew Willford3, Naomi Hosoda4 ...
    Series Book 1 - Asia Inside Out
    The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brings into focus the diverse networks and dynamic developments that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries.Each author examines an unnoticed moment—a single year or decade—that redefined Asia in some important way. Heidi ... Read more

    $53.89 CAD

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  • Asia Inside Out

    Connected Places

    Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue ...
    Series Book 2 - Asia Inside Out
    Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world’s largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries—sea ... Read more

    $53.89 CAD

  • Finding Japan

    Early Canadian Encounters with Asia

    by Anne Shannon ...
    In contrast to the widely known experiences of Asian immigrants who came to Canada, this book looks at movement in the opposite direction. Using text and images, it is a collection of stories about how Canadians “found Japan,” the first place they reached when travelling westward across the Pacific.These connections began as early as 1848, when the adventurous son of a Hudson’s Bay Company trader ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • A History of Japan

    From Stone Age to Superpower

    by K. Henshall ...
    In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japan's progress through its entire history to its current status as an economic, technological, and cultural superpower. A key factor is a pragmatic determination to succeed. Little-known facts are also brought to light, and the latest findings used. ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Opening a Window to the West

    The Foreign Concession at Kobe, Japan, 1868-1899

    by Peter Ennals ...
    After more than two centuries of self-seclusion, Japan finally opened itself to Western traders and influences in the 1850s. However, Westerners were restricted to a handful of Foreign Concessions set adjacent to selected Japanese cities, where they could fashion a working urban space suited to their own cultural patterns, and which provided the Japanese with a microscopic lens on Western ways of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Stranger in the Shogun's City

    A Japanese Woman and Her World

    by Amy Stanley ...
    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyA “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of narrative history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in 19th-century Edo-period Japan—and portrays the city that would become Tokyo on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.The ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

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  • Imperial Twilight

    The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

    by Stephen R. Platt ...
    As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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