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Author | : Robert Thomas Tierney |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520265785 |
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"Robert Tierney's Tropics of Savagery presents a most incisive and provocative account of Japanese colonial discourse. Tierney pursues a deeper understanding of Japan's imperialism through rich and powerful narratives and analysis."—Leo Ching, author of Becoming 'Japanese': Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation "Tierney offers one of the first serious evaluations of how Japanese came to look upon their new colonial possessions and how this imperial impulse was displaced through a tropic mechanism that appealed to the figures of savagery and primitivism. He not only provides readings of important but unfamiliar Japanese writers; he positions them in such a way as to tell a narrative that simply hasn't been told. An outstanding work."—Harry Harootunian, author of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan
Author | : Lesley Wylie |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1846311950 |
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This volume offers a new reading of the Spanish-American novela de la selva genre, often interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. Arguing against the commonly held opinion of the genre’s derivative nature, Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks examines how novela de la selva fiction reimagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective and redefined tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perspectives. Analyzing four emblematic novels of the genre, this book considers the crucial place of the jungle as a locus for the contestation of national and literary identity by post-independence Latin American writers.
Author | : David R. Montgomery |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2007-05-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520933168 |
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Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.
Author | : Victoria Lee |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2021-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022681274X |
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"The Arts of the Microbial World explores how Japanese scientists and skilled workers sought to use the microbe's natural processes to create new products, from soy-sauce mold starters to MSG and from vitamins to statins. In traditional brewing houses as well as in the food, fine chemical, and pharmaceutical industries across Japan, they showcased their ability to deal with the enormous sensitivity and variety of the microbial world. Victoria Lee's careful study offers a lush historical example of a society where scientists asked microbes for what they termed "gifts." Lee's story ranges from the microbe's integration into Japan as an imported concept to its precise application in recombinant DNA biotechnology. By focusing on a conception of life as fermentation in Japan, she showcases the significance of cultural and technical continuities with the pre-modern period in sustaining non-Western technological breakthroughs in the global economy. At a moment when twenty-first-century developments in the fields of antibiotic resistance, the microbiome, and green chemistry strongly suggest that the traditional eradication-based approach to the microbial world is unsustainable, twentieth-century Japanese microbiology provides a new, broader vantage for understanding and managing microbial interactions with society"--
Author | : Napoleon A. Chagnon |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2014-02-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0684855119 |
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Author | : Hayden V. White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1985 |
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Author | : Peter Duus |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520268431 |
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“Rediscovering America makes available in English for the first time a varied sampling of writings about the United States by Japanese observers from many different walks of life.” – Robert Tierney, author of Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame “Rediscovering America is a splendid collection of Japanese writings on "the American century," covering the period from 1868 to 1989 (from the Meiji to the Showa eras in Japanese calendar). Many of the issues raised by the authors are still heard today,” – Akira Iriye, author of Across the Pacific: An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations
Author | : Robert Thomas Tierney |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520286340 |
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Includes the first English translation of Kotoku Shusui's Imperialism by Robert Thomas Tierney.
Author | : Maureen A. Donnelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 675 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780226156576 |
Download Ecology & Evolution in the Tropics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In these essays that survey the burgeoning field of tropical herpetology, former students and associates pay tribute to Jay Savage's four decades of mentoring. The result is a book unlike any other available in tropical herpetology. Covering a wide array of subjects, Ecology and Evolution in the Tropics is the first book in more than two decades to broadly review research on tropical amphibians and reptiles. A tribute to Savage and an invaluable addition to the herpetological literature, this work will be cited for years to come.
Author | : Allan Punzalan Isaac |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9781452909059 |
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