The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world / / by John F. Richards |
Autore | Richards John F |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (697 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Collana |
The California world history library
ACLS Humanities E-Book |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - History
Nature - Effect of human beings on - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
age of exploration
case studies china commercial hunting conquest deforestation early modern period england environmental change environmental history environmental impact frontier life fur trade global history global perspective historical processes human impact imperialism japan natural environment natural historians natural history natural world north america reshaping landscapes russia settlement frontiers wetland ecology |
ISBN |
0-520-90095-2
0-520-93935-2 1-59734-972-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. The Global Context -- Part II. Eurasia and Africa -- Part III. The Americas -- Part IV. The World Hunt -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809442303321 |
Richards John F
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The untold history of ramen : how political crisis in Japan spawned a global food craze / / George Solt |
Autore | Solt George <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 641.82/20952 |
Collana | California Studies in Food and Culture |
Soggetto topico | Ramen - Japan |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century global history
american government american wheat imports black market bowl of noodles cold war cultural studies economic changes economic stagnation food studies food geopolitics globalization government documents historical history industrialization international icon international symbol japan japanese cuisine japanese culture japanese food labor force national identity noodle soup occupied japan political changes ramen reindustrialization soup us occupation of japan working poor |
ISBN | 0-520-95837-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. National Food -- 1. Street Life: Chinese Noodles for Japanese Workers -- 2. Not an Easy Road: Black Market Ramen and the U.S. Occupation -- 3. Move On Up: Fuel for Rapid Growth -- 4. Like It Is, Like It Was: Rebranding Ramen -- 5. Flavor of the Month: American Ramen and "Cool Japan" -- Conclusion. Time Will Tell: A Food of Opposition -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789287003321 |
Solt George <1978->
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The untold history of ramen : how political crisis in Japan spawned a global food craze / / George Solt |
Autore | Solt George <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 641.82/20952 |
Collana | California Studies in Food and Culture |
Soggetto topico | Ramen - Japan |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century global history
american government american wheat imports black market bowl of noodles cold war cultural studies economic changes economic stagnation food studies food geopolitics globalization government documents historical history industrialization international icon international symbol japan japanese cuisine japanese culture japanese food labor force national identity noodle soup occupied japan political changes ramen reindustrialization soup us occupation of japan working poor |
ISBN | 0-520-95837-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. National Food -- 1. Street Life: Chinese Noodles for Japanese Workers -- 2. Not an Easy Road: Black Market Ramen and the U.S. Occupation -- 3. Move On Up: Fuel for Rapid Growth -- 4. Like It Is, Like It Was: Rebranding Ramen -- 5. Flavor of the Month: American Ramen and "Cool Japan" -- Conclusion. Time Will Tell: A Food of Opposition -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822299603321 |
Solt George <1978->
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The walking whales : from land to water in eight million years / / J. G. M. Thewissen ; with illustrations by Jacqueline Dillard |
Autore | Thewissen J. G. M. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 569/.5 |
Soggetto topico |
Whales, Fossil - Pakistan
Whales, Fossil - India Whales - Evolution Paleontology - Pakistan Paleontology - India |
Soggetto non controllato |
alaska
archaeology carnivorous discussion books evolution evolutionary theory extinction fossil collection fossil collectors fossil hunters fossil record herbivorous mammals india japan lakes and rivers life sciences millions of years modern whales natural history nonfiction pakistan paleontologists paleontology prehistory scientific researchers scientists sea mammal anatomy south asian culture tiny deer whale anatomy whale evolution wild dolphins zoologists zoology |
ISBN | 0-520-95941-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- 1. A Wasted Dig -- 2. Fish, Mammal, or Dinosaur? -- 3. A Whale with Legs -- 4. Learning to Swim -- 5. When the Mountains Grew -- 6. Passage to India -- 7. A Trip to the Beach -- 8. The Otter Whale -- 9. The Ocean Is a Desert -- 10. The Skeleton Puzzle -- 11. The River Whales -- 12. Whales Conquer the World -- 13. From Embryos to Evolution -- 14. Before Whales -- 15. The Way Forward -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786603303321 |
Thewissen J. G. M.
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The walking whales : from land to water in eight million years / / J. G. M. Thewissen ; with illustrations by Jacqueline Dillard |
Autore | Thewissen J. G. M. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 569/.5 |
Soggetto topico |
Whales, Fossil - Pakistan
Whales, Fossil - India Whales - Evolution Paleontology - Pakistan Paleontology - India |
Soggetto non controllato |
alaska
archaeology carnivorous discussion books evolution evolutionary theory extinction fossil collection fossil collectors fossil hunters fossil record herbivorous mammals india japan lakes and rivers life sciences millions of years modern whales natural history nonfiction pakistan paleontologists paleontology prehistory scientific researchers scientists sea mammal anatomy south asian culture tiny deer whale anatomy whale evolution wild dolphins zoologists zoology |
ISBN | 0-520-95941-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- 1. A Wasted Dig -- 2. Fish, Mammal, or Dinosaur? -- 3. A Whale with Legs -- 4. Learning to Swim -- 5. When the Mountains Grew -- 6. Passage to India -- 7. A Trip to the Beach -- 8. The Otter Whale -- 9. The Ocean Is a Desert -- 10. The Skeleton Puzzle -- 11. The River Whales -- 12. Whales Conquer the World -- 13. From Embryos to Evolution -- 14. Before Whales -- 15. The Way Forward -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807805103321 |
Thewissen J. G. M.
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What Is a Family? : Answers from Early Modern Japan / / Marcia Yonemoto, Mary Elizabeth Berry |
Autore | Berry Mary Elizabeth |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, : University of California Press, 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : illustrations, charts; PDF, digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 306.850952 |
Soggetto topico | Families - Japan - History - Edo period, 1600-1868 |
Soggetto non controllato |
adoption
archives class early modern japan family order family structure family gender heirs history household infidelity japan japanese history kimono legal system literature merchant murder nonfiction outcast parenting peasant privilege relationships samurai social hierarchy social history social order tokugawa trial true crime |
ISBN | 0-520-31608-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Lists of Illustrations and Tables -- A Note to Readers -- Introduction -- 1. The Language and Contours of Familial Obligation in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Japan -- 2. Adoption and the Maintenance of the Early Modern Elite: Japan in the East Asian Context -- 3. Imagined Communities of the Living and the Dead: The Spread of the Ancestor-Venerating Stem Family in Tokugawa Japan -- 4. Name and Fame: Material Objects as Authority, Security, and Legacy -- 5. Outcastes and Ie : The Case of Two Beggar Boss Associations -- 6. Governing the Samurai Family in the Late Edo Period -- 7. Fashioning the Family: A Temple, a Daughter, and a Wardrobe -- 8. Social Norms versus Individual Desire: Conventions and Unconventionality in the History of Hirata Atsutane's Family -- 9. Family Trouble: Views from the Stage and a Merchant Archive -- 10. Ideal Families in Crisis: Official and Fictional Archetypes at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century -- Appendix Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910341146503321 |
Berry Mary Elizabeth
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What Is a Family? : Answers from Early Modern Japan / / Marcia Yonemoto, Mary Elizabeth Berry |
Autore | Berry Mary Elizabeth |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, : University of California Press, 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : illustrations, charts; PDF, digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 306.850952 |
Soggetto topico | Families - Japan - History - Edo period, 1600-1868 |
Soggetto non controllato |
adoption
archives class early modern japan family order family structure family gender heirs history household infidelity japan japanese history kimono legal system literature merchant murder nonfiction outcast parenting peasant privilege relationships samurai social hierarchy social history social order tokugawa trial true crime |
ISBN | 0-520-31608-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Lists of Illustrations and Tables -- A Note to Readers -- Introduction -- 1. The Language and Contours of Familial Obligation in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Japan -- 2. Adoption and the Maintenance of the Early Modern Elite: Japan in the East Asian Context -- 3. Imagined Communities of the Living and the Dead: The Spread of the Ancestor-Venerating Stem Family in Tokugawa Japan -- 4. Name and Fame: Material Objects as Authority, Security, and Legacy -- 5. Outcastes and Ie : The Case of Two Beggar Boss Associations -- 6. Governing the Samurai Family in the Late Edo Period -- 7. Fashioning the Family: A Temple, a Daughter, and a Wardrobe -- 8. Social Norms versus Individual Desire: Conventions and Unconventionality in the History of Hirata Atsutane's Family -- 9. Family Trouble: Views from the Stage and a Merchant Archive -- 10. Ideal Families in Crisis: Official and Fictional Archetypes at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century -- Appendix Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996328037503316 |
Berry Mary Elizabeth
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Working skin : making leather, making a multicultural Japan / / Joseph D. Hankins |
Autore | Hankins Joseph D. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/680952 |
Collana | Asia Pacific Modern |
Soggetto topico |
Buraku people - Social conditions
Buraku people - Government policy Multiculturalism - Japan Labor - Japan Working class - Japan |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
asia pacific modern series buraka rights activists buraku people cultural studies ethnographic research global politics historical history of japan history international advocates japan japanese culture japanese politics japanese labor of multiculturalism labor leather production liberalized markets managing difference meat production minority groups multicultural japan national homogeneity political prejudice social movements south asia stigmatized groups tanners united nations |
ISBN | 0-520-95916-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface: Hailing from Texas -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Recognizing Buraku Difference -- Part Two. Choice and Obligation in Contemporary Buraku Politics -- Part Three. International Standards and the Possibilities of Solidarity -- Conclusion: The Disciplines of Multiculturalism -- Epilogue: Texas to Japan, and Back -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786617003321 |
Hankins Joseph D.
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Working skin : making leather, making a multicultural Japan / / Joseph D. Hankins |
Autore | Hankins Joseph D. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/680952 |
Collana | Asia Pacific Modern |
Soggetto topico |
Buraku people - Social conditions
Buraku people - Government policy Multiculturalism - Japan Labor - Japan Working class - Japan |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
asia pacific modern series buraka rights activists buraku people cultural studies ethnographic research global politics historical history of japan history international advocates japan japanese culture japanese politics japanese labor of multiculturalism labor leather production liberalized markets managing difference meat production minority groups multicultural japan national homogeneity political prejudice social movements south asia stigmatized groups tanners united nations |
ISBN | 0-520-95916-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface: Hailing from Texas -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Recognizing Buraku Difference -- Part Two. Choice and Obligation in Contemporary Buraku Politics -- Part Three. International Standards and the Possibilities of Solidarity -- Conclusion: The Disciplines of Multiculturalism -- Epilogue: Texas to Japan, and Back -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807676803321 |
Hankins Joseph D.
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Yakuza [[electronic resource] ] : Japan's criminal underworld / / David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro |
Autore | Kaplan David E |
Edizione | [25th anniversary ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.1060952 |
Altri autori (Persone) | DubroAlec |
Soggetto topico |
Yakuza - Japan - History
Yakuza - History Organized crime - Japan - History Crime - Japan - History Gangs - Japan - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
asia scholars asian history asian studies controversial crime historians crime history crime syndicates crime criminal class criminal culture criminal organizations criminology cultural historians gangsters japan japanese culture japanese history japanese society japans underworld modern impact organized crime outlaws retrospective sociologists sociology western perspective yakuza culture yakuza society yakuza |
ISBN |
1-282-13417-5
9786613806758 0-520-95381-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Early history -- pt. 2. The Kodama years -- pt. 3. The modern Yakuza -- pt. 4. The move abroad. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779223003321 |
Kaplan David E
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