Provides an account of the subject of vanished islands and hidden continents in the Pacific. This book addresses the persistent myths of a ""sunken... Læs mere
View of the Pinnacle is a richly illustrated catalogue featuring more than eighty suzuribako, dating from the fourteenth through the twentieth centuries, from the Edmund and Julia Lewis Collection.
Offers the first systematic analysis of writings on modern Chinese history by historians in China from the early... Læs mere
Revered and reviled, reptiles have slithered, glided, crawled, and climbed their way through the human imagination and into prominent places in many... Læs mere
On September 13, 1912, the day of Emperor Meiji's funeral, General Nogi Maresuke committed ritual suicide. The revered... Læs mere
Presents an historical analysis of the discourses of nostalgia in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan. Through... Læs mere