1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911046713003321

Autore

Stalker Nancy K.

Titolo

Japan : history and culture from classical to cool / / Nancy K. Stalker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

9780520962835

0520962834

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (451 pages)

Classificazione

NK 5190

Disciplina

952

Soggetti

Popular culture - Japanese influences

HISTORY / Asia / Japan

Japan History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Early Japan -- 2. Forging a Centralized State (550-794) -- 3. The Rule of Taste: Lives of Heian Aristocrats (794-1185) -- 4. The Rise and Rule of the Warrior Class (12th-15th centuries) -- 5. Disintegration and Reunification (1460s-Early 1600s) -- 6. Maintaining Control: Tokugawa Official Culture (1603-1850s) -- 7. Edo Popular Culture: the Floating World and Beyond (Late 17th to Mid-19th Centuries) -- 8. Facing and Embracing the West (1850s-1900s) -- 9. Modernity and Its Discontents (1900s-1930s) -- 10. cultures of Empire and War (1900s-1940s) -- 11. Defeat and Reconstruction (1945-1970s) -- 12. "Cool" Japan as Cultural Superpower (1980s-2010s) -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool provides a historical account of Japan's elite and popular cultures from premodern to modern periods. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship across numerous disciplines, Nancy K. Stalker presents the key historical themes, cultural trends, and religious developments throughout Japanese history. Focusing on everyday life and ordinary consumption, this is the first textbook of its kind to explore both imperial and colonial culture and offer expanded content on issues pertaining to gender and sexuality. Organized into fourteen chronological and



thematic chapters, this text explores some of the most notable and engaging aspects of Japanese life and is well suited for undergraduate classroom use.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163096303321

Autore

Brézin E.

Titolo

Random matrix theory with an external source / / by Edouard Brézin, Shinobu Hikami

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

981-10-3316-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics, , 2197-1757 ; ; 19

Disciplina

512.9434

Soggetti

Mathematical physics

Statistical physics

Topological groups

Lie groups

Nuclear physics

Dynamics

Mathematical Physics

Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems

Topological Groups, Lie Groups

Particle and Nuclear Physics

Complex Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a first book to show that the theory of the Gaussian random matrix is essential to understand the universal correlations with random fluctuations and to demonstrate that it is useful to evaluate topological universal quantities. We consider Gaussian random matrix models in the presence of a deterministic matrix source. In such models the correlation functions are known exactly for an arbitrary



source and for any size of the matrices. The freedom given by the external source allows for various tunings to different classes of universality. The main interest is to use this freedom to compute various topological invariants for surfaces such as the intersection numbers for curves drawn on a surface of given genus with marked points, Euler characteristics, and the Gromov–Witten invariants. A remarkable duality for the average of characteristic polynomials is essential for obtaining such topological invariants. The analysis is extended to nonorientable surfaces and to surfaces with boundaries.