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The Mega-urban Regions of Southeast Asia - Google Books

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A distinguishing feature of recent urbanization in the ASEANcountries of Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, andIndonesia is the outward extension of their mega-cities (Bangkok,Jakarta, Manila, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur) beyond the…

Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods ... - John S. Brownlee - Google Books

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Ancient tales tell of Japan's creation in the Age of the Gods, and of Jinmu, a direct descendant of the Sun Goddess and first emperor of the imperial line. These founding myths went unchallenged until Confucian scholars in the Tokugawa period initiated a…

At the Far Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra - Freeman M. Tovell - Google Books

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Capitán de Navío Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was the most important Spanish naval officer on the Northwest Coast in the eighteenth century. Serving from 1774 to 1794, he participated in the search for the Northwest Passage and, with George…

Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change - Google Books

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The image of "backlash" is pervasive in contemporary debates about the impact of second-wave feminism on law and policy. But does it really explain the resistance to feminist initiatives for social change in contemporary culture? In this timely volume,…

A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End: The Norman Colbeck Collection of ... - Google Books

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The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection…

Early Human Occupation in British Columbia - Google Books

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This book represents the archeological evidence for the first 5,500 years of prehistory in British Columbia, from about 10,500 to 5,000 years ago. As this period is poorly known, even to specialists, Early Human Occupation in British Columbia is a vital…

The Six National Histories of Japan - Taro Sakamoto - Google Books

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The Six National Histories of Japan (Rikkokushi) was written in 1970 by one of Japan's foremost historical scholars. Sakamoto Taro. An authoritative study of Japan's first scholarly works and a modern classic, it is now translated into English for the…

British Columbia Place Names: Third Edition - G.P. (Philip) V. Akrigg, Helen Akrigg - Google Books

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Elephant Crossing. Houdini Needles. Miniskirt, Tickletoeteaser Tower, and Why Not Mountain. These are just some of the many names of places, rivers, mountains, and lakes that you will come across in the newest edition of British Columbia Place Names. This…

Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49 - Hsaio-ting Lin - Google Books

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In this ground-breaking study, Hsiao Ting Lin demonstrates that the Chinese frontier was the subject neither of concerted aggression on the part of a centralized and indoctrinated Chinese government nor of an ideologically driven nationalist ethnopolitics.…