This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told a...(展开全部)

This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told a...(展开全部)

Historians have long been aware of the richness and complexity of the intellectual history of modern Japanese politics. Najita's study, however, is the first in a Western language to present a consistent and broad synthesis of this subject. Najita elucidates the political dynamics of the past two hundred years of Japanese history by focusing on the interplay of restorationism a...(展开全部)

"This book is intended to annoy and provoke..." A distinguished economist, and a seasoned heretic, Meghnad Desai has spent most of his like as an advocate of the Left. This book is the culmination of a period of reassessment, initiated by the challenge of Thatcherism, the collapse of the Soviet system, and the British Labour Party's Embrace of market-driven politics, which has ...(展开全部)

In this provocative and enthusiastically revisionist book, the distinguished economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism’s recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed would, in a certain sense, have welcomed. Capitalism, as Marx understood it, would only reach its limits when it was no longer capable of progress. Desai argues that globalization, in bri...(展开全部)

Introduction This book examines the history of a military expedition the Japanese government sent to southern Taiwan in 1874, in the context of Japan’s subordination to Western powers in the unequal treaty system in East Asia. It argues that events on the ground in Taiwan show the Japanese government intended to establish colonies in southern and eastern Taiwan, and justified i...(展开全部)

A full-scale examination of the inner workings of Japan's political and industrial system.

荷兰记者、政治评论家。他曾任荷兰《新鹿特丹商报》派驻日本的东亚记者，30年来一直在东京工作生活，写下大量对日本政治、社会、文化与外交关系进行深刻剖析的文章。现为阿姆斯特丹大学比较政治经济系终身荣誉教授。 他曾撰写包括《日本：权力结构之谜》在内的20余本著作，影响西方国家对日政策的制订。著作被译为12种语言，其中日文版影响超过百万的日本读者，被日本学者称赞具有“革命性”的观点，在日本政治界中激起巨大反响。

Analyzes the factors including inflation, unequal development, environmental damage, and unfair resource distribution that characterize America's technostructure and suggests ways of reforming our marketing and planning systems.