Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.

Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.

布雷特·L. 沃克是蒙大拿城市大学（波兹曼）杰出教授，迈克尔·马隆历史学教授，主要研究领域为环境史，医学史，日本近现代史，以及比较全球史。除本书外，还著有《疾病的家族史》（2017）、《毒岛：日本工业病史》（2010）、《日本狼的灭绝》(2005)等多部英、日文专著。其主要作品被译为日文、中文、西班牙文和葡萄牙文等多种文字。

To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine. The...(展开全部)

Today over 12 million people are stateless and millions more are refugees or displaced persons. Mira Siegelberg shows how the much-contested legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of political and legal authority beyond the territorial state, before ultimately empowering the sovereign territorial state as the fundamental source of protection and rights. Two wor...(展开全部)

Hunger is as old as history itself. Indeed, it appears to be a timeless and inescapable biological condition. And yet perceptions of hunger and of the hungry have changed over time and differed from place to place. Hunger has a history, which can now be told.At the beginning of the 19th century, hunger was viewed as an unavoidable natural phenomenon or as the fault of its lazy ...(展开全部)

This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and economies of Iran against the background of dynastic ch...(展开全部)

This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and economies of Iran against the background of dynastic ch...(展开全部)

Looks at many contemporary concerns and issues in Japan - exploring its history, economy, politics, and culture Examines what it means to call Japan a 'modern' society, and what 'modern' has meant to the Japanese Debunks many myths, for example explaining how Japan was never completely isolated from the outside world: even during the long period of so-called sakoku (isolationis...(展开全部)

Looks at many contemporary concerns and issues in Japan - exploring its history, economy, politics, and culture Examines what it means to call Japan a 'modern' society, and what 'modern' has meant to the Japanese Debunks many myths, for example explaining how Japan was never completely isolated from the outside world: even during the long period of so-called sakoku (isolationis...(展开全部)