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UNINA9910463638303321 |
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Autore |
Kowner Rotem |
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From white to yellow : the Japanese in European racial thought, 1300-1735 / / Rotem Kowner |
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Montréal, Québec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxv, 678 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas ; ; 63 |
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Race - Social aspects - Europe - History |
Public opinion - Europe - History |
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Japan Foreign public opinion, European History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Phase One. Speculation : Pre-Encounter Knowledge of the Japanese (1300-1543). 1. The emergence of "Cipangu" and its precursory ethnography ; 2. The "Cipanguese" at the opening of the age of discovery -- |
Phase Two. Observation : A Burgeoning Discourse of Initial Encounters (1543-1640). 3. Initial observations of the Japanese ; 4. The Japanese position in contemporary hierarchies ; 5. Concrete mirrors of a new human order ; 6. "Race" and its cognitive limits during the phase of observation -- |
Phase Three. Reconsideration : Antecendents of a Mature Discourse (1640-1735). 7. Dutch reappraisal of the Japanese body and origins ; 8. Power, status, and the Japanese position in the global order ; 9. In search of a new taxonomy : botany, medicine, and the Japanese ; 10. "Race" and its perceptual limits during the phase of reconsideration -- Conclusion : The discourse of race in early modern Europe and the Japanese case. |
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When Europeans landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded |
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away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. This book traces racial roots of the modern clash between Japan and the West. |
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UNINA9910460166503321 |
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Autore |
Frug Gerald E. <1939-> |
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City bound [[electronic resource] ] : how states stifle urban innovation / / Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron |
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 |
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0-8014-7901-0 |
0-8014-6008-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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State-local relations - United States |
Municipal home rule - United States |
Municipal government - United States |
Municipal corporations - United States |
Urban policy - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. City Structures -- 1. City Structures and Urban Theory -- 2. City Structures and Local Autonomy -- Par t II. Seven Cities -- 3. Home Rule -- 4. Revenue and Expenditures -- 5. Land Use and Development -- 6. Education -- Part III. City Futures -- 7. The Global City -- 8. The Tourist City -- 9. The Middle Class City -- 10. The Regional City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index |
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Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. In City Bound, Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. Based on a study of the differing legal structures of Boston, New |
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York, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle, City Bound explores how state law determines what cities can and cannot do to raise revenue, control land use, and improve city schools.Frug and Barron show that state law can make it much easier for cities to pursue a global-city or a tourist-city agenda than to respond to the needs of middle-class residents or to pursue regional alliances. But they also explain that state law is often so outdated, and so rooted in an unjustified distrust of local decision making, that the legal process makes it hard for successful cities to develop and implement any coherent vision of their future. Their book calls not for local autonomy but for a new structure of state-local relations that would enable cities to take the lead in charting the future course of urban development. It should be of interest to everyone who cares about the future of American cities, whether political scientists, planners, architects, lawyers, or simply citizens. |
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