Lever of empire [[electronic resource] ] : the international gold standard and the crisis of liberalism in prewar Japan / / Mark Metzler |
Autore | Metzler Mark <1957-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2005] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 332.4/222/095209041 |
Collana | Twentieth-century Japan |
Soggetto topico |
Money - Japan - History
Currency question - Japan - History Gold standard - History Monetary policy - Japan - History Liberalism - Japan - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
asian history
business and finance deflation depression east asian history economic policy economics edo empire fascism financial history global politics gold and currency gold standard government policy history imperial japan imperial state imperialism japan japanese empire liberalism london modern japan money nonfiction political extremism politics us isolationism world war two ww2 |
ISBN |
9786612357664
0-520-93179-3 1-282-35766-2 1-59875-930-2 |
Classificazione | QK 100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on terms -- Prologue: London, 1898 -- 1. Japan and the British Gold Standard, ca. 1715-1885 -- 2. Gold and Empire, 1885-1903 -- 3. The Sinews of War, 1904-1914 -- 4. The "Positive" and "Negative" Policies -- 5. "Divine Providence," 1914-1918 -- 6. The Great Divide, 1918-1921 -- 7. "The Contractionary Tide," 1921-1926 -- 8. The Theory and Practice of Induced Depression -- 9. "The Two-Party Principle," 1927-1929 -- 10. The Liberal Triumph, 1929-1930 -- 11. Opening the Door to a Hurricane, 1930-1931 -- 12. Capitalist Recovery in One Country, 1932-1936 -- Epilogue: Money and Hegemony -- Appendix: Reference Information -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783670403321 |
Metzler Mark <1957-> | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2005] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The nature of the beasts : empire and exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo / / Ian Jared Miller ; foreword by Harriet Ritvo |
Autore | Miller Ian Jared <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations |
Disciplina | 590.52/135 |
Collana | Asia--local studies/global themes |
Soggetto topico |
Zoos - Social aspects - Japan - History
Philosophy of nature - Japan - History Nature and civilization - Japan - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
books about the environment
books for history lovers books for reluctant readers east asian history easy to read engaging gifts for friends global history historical novels history and politics humans and natural environment imperial zoological gardens japanese culture japanese empire japanese history japanese politics japanese zoos japans emergence into the world leisure reads modernization of japan natural environment rapid modernization shaping japan vacation books zoology |
ISBN |
9780520952102
9780520271869 9780520377523 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Japan's Ecological Modernity -- Part One. The Nature of Civilization -- Part Two. The Culture of Total War -- Part Three. After Empire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779756603321 |
Miller Ian Jared <1970-> | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing dynasty China : survival strategies and judicial interventions / / Matthew H. Sommer |
Autore | Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (493 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0951/09032 |
Soggetto topico |
Married women - China - Social conditions
Polyandry - China Rural poor - China |
Soggetto non controllato |
asian culture
asian studies chinese culture chinese law chinese wives east asian history gender studies history of wife selling imperial china late imperial china marital practices in imperial china marriage and family in china marriage and sex in china marriage in china multiple spouses in china polyandry polygamy in rural poor qing china qing dynasty history qing dynasty rural poor in china second husbands in china social history of china wife selling in china wife selling in qing china |
ISBN | 0-520-96219-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONVENTIONS IN THE TEXT -- MAP: Provinces of China Proper within the Qing Empire, circa 1800 -- Introduction -- 1. "Getting a Husband to Support a Husband" -- 2. Attitudes of Families, Communities, and Women toward Polyandry -- 3. The Intermediate Range of Practice -- 4. Anatomy of a Wife Sale -- 5. Analysis of the Prices in Wife Sales -- 6. Negotiations between Men over Wife Sales -- 7. Wives, Their Natal Families, and Children -- 8. Four Variations on a Theme -- 9. Formal Law and Central Court Interpretation from Ming through High Qing -- 10. Absolutism versus Pragmatism in Central Court Treatment of Wife Sales -- 11. Flexible Adjudication of Routine Cases in the Local Courts -- Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- CHARACTER LIST -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797496203321 |
Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961-> | ||
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing dynasty China : survival strategies and judicial interventions / / Matthew H. Sommer |
Autore | Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (493 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0951/09032 |
Soggetto topico |
Married women - China - Social conditions
Polyandry - China Rural poor - China |
Soggetto non controllato |
asian culture
asian studies chinese culture chinese law chinese wives east asian history gender studies history of wife selling imperial china late imperial china marital practices in imperial china marriage and family in china marriage and sex in china marriage in china multiple spouses in china polyandry polygamy in rural poor qing china qing dynasty history qing dynasty rural poor in china second husbands in china social history of china wife selling in china wife selling in qing china |
ISBN | 0-520-96219-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONVENTIONS IN THE TEXT -- MAP: Provinces of China Proper within the Qing Empire, circa 1800 -- Introduction -- 1. "Getting a Husband to Support a Husband" -- 2. Attitudes of Families, Communities, and Women toward Polyandry -- 3. The Intermediate Range of Practice -- 4. Anatomy of a Wife Sale -- 5. Analysis of the Prices in Wife Sales -- 6. Negotiations between Men over Wife Sales -- 7. Wives, Their Natal Families, and Children -- 8. Four Variations on a Theme -- 9. Formal Law and Central Court Interpretation from Ming through High Qing -- 10. Absolutism versus Pragmatism in Central Court Treatment of Wife Sales -- 11. Flexible Adjudication of Routine Cases in the Local Courts -- Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- CHARACTER LIST -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817454903321 |
Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961-> | ||
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Public passions [[electronic resource] ] : the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China / / Eugenia Lean |
Autore | Lean Eugenia <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina | 951.0/2 |
Soggetto topico | Trials (Assassination) - China |
Soggetto non controllato |
assassin
assassination buddhism china chinese history chinese women crime criminality east asia east asian history female murderer femininity feminism gender history gender sexuality gender studies gender history justice system legal history legal system legal trial media modern china modern law modernity murder nonfiction public sympathy revenge scandal sensation sensational media sentiment shi jianqiao sun chuanfang temple trial vengeance warlord |
ISBN |
1-282-35900-2
9786612359002 0-520-93267-6 1-4356-0193-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The assassin and her revenge: a tale of moral heroism and female self-fashioning in an age of mass communication -- Media sensation: public justice and the sympathy of an urban audience -- Highbrow ambivalence: fear of the masses and feminized sentiment -- The trial: courtroom spectacle and ethical sentiment in the rule of law -- A state pardon: sanctioned violence under Nationalist rule -- Beyond the 1930s: from wartime patriotism to counter-revolutionary sentiment. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778117603321 |
Lean Eugenia <1968-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Public passions : the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China / / Eugenia Lean |
Autore | Lean Eugenia <1968-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina | 951.0/2 |
Soggetto topico | Trials (Assassination) - China |
Soggetto non controllato |
assassin
assassination buddhism china chinese history chinese women crime criminality east asia east asian history female murderer femininity feminism gender history gender sexuality gender studies gender history justice system legal history legal system legal trial media modern china modern law modernity murder nonfiction public sympathy revenge scandal sensation sensational media sentiment shi jianqiao sun chuanfang temple trial vengeance warlord |
ISBN |
1-282-35900-2
9786612359002 0-520-93267-6 1-4356-0193-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The assassin and her revenge: a tale of moral heroism and female self-fashioning in an age of mass communication -- Media sensation: public justice and the sympathy of an urban audience -- Highbrow ambivalence: fear of the masses and feminized sentiment -- The trial: courtroom spectacle and ethical sentiment in the rule of law -- A state pardon: sanctioned violence under Nationalist rule -- Beyond the 1930s: from wartime patriotism to counter-revolutionary sentiment. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248101403316 |
Lean Eugenia <1968-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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An unfinished republic [[electronic resource] ] : leading by word and deed in modern China / / David Strand |
Autore | Strand David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (403 p.) |
Disciplina |
951.04092
B |
Collana | Philip E. Lilienthal book |
Soggetto topico |
Political activists - China
Political oratory - China - History - 20th century Political leadership - China - History - 20th century Elite (Social sciences) - China - History - 20th century Political culture - China - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
activism
chinese history chinese politics chinese revolution chinese women citizens class diplomacy diplomat east asian history feminism history inequality lu zhengxiang modernity national language nonfiction political culture political history political performance politics poverty rebellion republican china revolution revolutionary revolutions right to vote social change suffragist sun yatsen tang qunying womens rights |
ISBN |
1-283-27785-9
9786613277855 0-520-94874-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Republican China -- Slapping Song Jiaoren -- Speaking parts in Chinese history -- A woman's Republic -- Seeing like a citizen -- Losing a speech -- Sun Yat-sen's last words -- Conclusion: Leading and being led. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790046403321 |
Strand David | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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An unfinished republic [[electronic resource] ] : leading by word and deed in modern China / / David Strand |
Autore | Strand David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (403 p.) |
Disciplina |
951.04092
B |
Collana | Philip E. Lilienthal book |
Soggetto topico |
Political activists - China
Political oratory - China - History - 20th century Political leadership - China - History - 20th century Elite (Social sciences) - China - History - 20th century Political culture - China - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
activism
chinese history chinese politics chinese revolution chinese women citizens class diplomacy diplomat east asian history feminism history inequality lu zhengxiang modernity national language nonfiction political culture political history political performance politics poverty rebellion republican china revolution revolutionary revolutions right to vote social change suffragist sun yatsen tang qunying womens rights |
ISBN |
1-283-27785-9
9786613277855 0-520-94874-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Republican China -- Slapping Song Jiaoren -- Speaking parts in Chinese history -- A woman's Republic -- Seeing like a citizen -- Losing a speech -- Sun Yat-sen's last words -- Conclusion: Leading and being led. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824013403321 |
Strand David | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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