1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789090203321

Titolo

Living Japan [[electronic resource] ] : essays on everyday life in contemporary society / / edited by Harumi Kimura ; translated by Haruko Miyazaki, Yuriko Takahashi and others

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Folkestone, Kent, U.K., : Global Oriental, 2009

ISBN

1-282-08897-1

9786612088971

90-04-21305-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Brill eBook titles 2010

Altri autori (Persone)

KimuraHarumi

MiyazakiHaruko

TakahashiYuriko

Disciplina

306.0952

952

Soggetti

Japan Civilization 21st century

Japan Social life and customs 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. At the foot of Mount Fuji -- pt. 2. New Year's cards -- pt. 3. Please answer in Japanese -- pt. 4. Call me mummy -- pt. 5. As if I were in paradise -- pt. 6. Those days in Britain -- pt. 7. From the kitchen window -- pt. 8. Living alone rehearsal.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume forms a unique and remarkable enterprise in the context of contemporary Japanese literature, social studies and the nature of Japanese society. It comprises 70 essays by private individuals living in Japan today (members of a writing club) who have chosen a subject to write about with a view to projecting a genuine insight into the events, issues and aspirations that make them who they are – from life in a condominium to dealing with in-laws, early retirement and life after children. Edited and introduced by the distinguished best-selling author Harumi Kimura (winner of the Ohya non-fiction prize for her book ‘Letters from Twilight London’), the book’s objective is to make ‘Japan’more accessible to the nonspecialist general reader and provide a counter-balance to Western media images and reporting as well as



conventional academic theory and observation about modern Japanese society. By definition, it also offers an invaluable primary source for scholarly reference.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781929003321

Autore

Jordan Ryan P. <1977->

Titolo

Slavery and the meetinghouse [[electronic resource] ] : the Quakers and the abolitionist dilemma, 1820-1865 / / Ryan P. Jordan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-07853-4

9786612078538

0-253-11709-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

326.089/96073

Soggetti

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

Abolitionists - United States - History - 19th century

Slavery and the church - Society of Friends - History - 19th century

Slavery and the church - United States - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States

Quakers - United States - Political activity - History - 19th century

Quaker abolitionists - United States - History - 19th century

Pacifism - United States - History - 19th century

Society of Friends - United States - History - 19th century

United States Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-161) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Quakers, slavery, and the "peaceable kingdom" -- Quaker gradualists and the challenge of abolitionism -- Slavery, religious liberty, and the "political" abolitionism of the Indiana Anti-Slavery Friends -- Friends and the "children of Africa" : Quaker abolitionists confront the Negro pew -- "Progressive" Friends and the government of God -- Quaker pacifism and civil disobedience in the antebellum period



-- Conclusion: "Fighting Quakers," abolitionists, and the Civil War.

Sommario/riassunto

Ryan P. Jordan explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery. In the years before the Civil War, the Society of Friends opposed the                abolitionist campaign for an immediate end to slavery and considered abolitionists within the church as heterodox radicals seeking to destroy civil and religious  liberty. In response, many Quaker abolitionists began to build ""come outer""                institutions where social and

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792557603321

Autore

Barbosa Rosana

Titolo

Brazil and Canada : economic, political and migratory ties, 1820s to 1970s / / Rosana Barbosa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4985-4549-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 pages)

Disciplina

327.81

Soggetti

Brazil Foreign relations Canada

Canada Foreign relations Brazil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.