1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451330003321

Titolo

Japan--change and continuity / / edited by Javed Maswood, Jeffrey Graham, and Hideaki Miyajima

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2002

ISBN

1-135-78906-1

1-280-05686-X

0-203-22047-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MaswoodJaved

GrahamJeffrey

MiyajimaHideaki

Disciplina

320/.6/095209049

Soggetti

Political planning - Japan

Electronic books.

Japan Politics and government 1989-

Japan Economic policy 1989-

Japan Social policy

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Japan - Change and Continuity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Much ado about nothing? The limited scope of political reform in Japan; 3 Regulatory reforms in Japan: issues and prospects; 4 Reforming Japanese banks and the financial system; 5 Changes in the J-type firm: from bank-centred governance to internal governance; 6 Continuity and change in Japanese human capital formation; 7 Changing environmental policy agendas: Japan's approach to international environmental problems

8 Crusaders of the lost archipelago: the changing relationships between environmental NGOs and government in Japan9 Immigration and citizenship in contemporary Japan; 10 The reformatting of Japan for the people: science, technology and the new economy; 11 Japanese 'Education Reform': the plan for the twenty-first century; 12 Conclusion; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Japan is currently undergoing many interesting changes, which the Japanese government trumpets as fundamental reform, but which some observers suspect will turn out to be superficial, part of a long sequence of changes which have been much less far-reaching than at first anticipated. This book provides a survey of the many changes currently in progress in Japan, including political reform, economic deregulation and liberalisation, and reforms to environmental policy, science and technology, education, and immigration policy. The essays in this volume explore the reform process in Japan overall

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790788803321

Autore

Calkin Siobhain Bly <1973-, >

Titolo

Saracens and the making of English identity : the Auchinleck manuscript / / Siobhain Bly Calkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-47171-1

0-415-80309-8

0-203-95852-7

1-135-47164-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Studies in medieval history and culture

Disciplina

820.9/38297

Soggetti

English literature - Islamic influences

Islam and literature - England - History - To 1500

National characteristics, English, in literature

Romances, English - History and criticism

Romances, English - Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval - England

Manuscripts, English (Middle)

Saracens in literature

Crusades in literature

Islamic Empire Foreign public opinion, English

Islamic Empire In literature

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 (pages 275-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The perils of proximity: Saracen knights, sameness, and differentiation -- Saracens and she-wolves: foreign consorts and group identity -- Monstrous intermingling and miraculous conversion: negotiating cultural borders in the King of Tars -- Saracens and English Christian identity in Seynt Katerine and Seynt Mergrete -- Saracens, Englishness, and productive violence in Of Arthour and Of Merlin.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various Eng