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Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan - Historical Perspectives and New Horizons (Hardcover): Patrick W. Galbraith, Thiam Huat... Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan - Historical Perspectives and New Horizons (Hardcover)
Patrick W. Galbraith, Thiam Huat Kam, Bjoern-Ole Kamm
R4,580 Discovery Miles 45 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With the spread of manga (Japanese comics) and anime (Japanese cartoons) around the world, many have adopted the Japanese term 'otaku' to identify fans of such media. The connection to manga and anime may seem straightforward, but, when taken for granted, often serves to obscure the debates within and around media fandom in Japan since the term 'otaku' appeared in the niche publication Manga Burikko in 1983. Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan disrupts the naturalization and trivialization of 'otaku' by examining the historical contingency of the term as a way to identify and contain problematic youth, consumers and fan cultures in Japan. Its chapters, many translated from Japanese and available in English for the first time - and with a foreword by Otsuka Eiji, former editor of Manga Burikko - explore key moments in the evolving discourse of 'otaku' in Japan. Rather than presenting a smooth, triumphant narrative of the transition of a subculture to the mainstream, the edited volume repositions 'otaku' in specific historical, social and economic contexts, providing new insights into the significance of the 'otaku' phenomenon in Japan and the world. By going back to original Japanese documents, translating key contributions by Japanese scholars and offering sustained analysis of these documents and scholars, Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan provides alternative histories of and approaches to 'otaku'. For all students and scholars of contemporary Japan and the history of Japanese fan and consumer cultures, this volume will be a foundation for understanding how 'otaku', at different places and times and to different people, is meaningful.

The Work and Wealth of Austria-Hungary - a Series of Articles Surveying Economic, Financial and Industrial Conditions in the... The Work and Wealth of Austria-Hungary - a Series of Articles Surveying Economic, Financial and Industrial Conditions in the Dual Monarchy During the War (Hardcover)
Herman George 1878-1927 Scheffauer
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jane's Fighting Ships 1904. (Naval Encyclopedia and Year Book) - Facsimile Edition. Volume 1 of 2. England, France,... Jane's Fighting Ships 1904. (Naval Encyclopedia and Year Book) - Facsimile Edition. Volume 1 of 2. England, France, Germany, Russia. (Hardcover)
Fred T. Jane
R2,506 Discovery Miles 25 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports (Hardcover): Sheldon Anderson The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports (Hardcover)
Sheldon Anderson
R3,328 Discovery Miles 33 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and the way leaders have exploited sports to achieve domestic and foreign policy goals. The book focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, the particular processes by which the rest of Europe and the world adopted or rejected their games, and the impact of sports on domestic politics and foreign affairs. Teams competing in international sporting events provide people a shared national experience and a means to differentiate "us" from "them." Particular attention is paid to the transnational influences on the construction of sporting communities, and why some areas resisted dominant sporting cultures while others adopted them and changed them to fit their particular political or societal needs. A recurrent theme of the book is that as much as they try, politicians have been frustrated in their attempts to achieve political ends through sport. The book provides a basis for understanding the political, economic, social, and diplomatic contexts in which these games were played, and to present issues that spur further discussion and research.

Coming Full Circle - The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848-1934 (Hardcover, First Edition, New ed.): Laurence M. Hauptman Coming Full Circle - The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848-1934 (Hardcover, First Edition, New ed.)
Laurence M. Hauptman
R1,163 Discovery Miles 11 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas' removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians, which today occupies three reservations in western New York, sought to rebound. Beginning with events leading to the Seneca Revolution in 1848, which transformed the nation's government from a council of chiefs to an elected system, Laurence M. Hauptman traces Seneca history through the New Deal. Based on the author's nearly fifty years of archival research, interviews, and applied work, Coming Full Circle shows that Seneca leaders in these years learned valuable lessons and adapted to change, thereby preparing the nation to meet the challenges it would face in the post-World War II era, including major land loss and threats of termination. Instead of emphasizing American Indian decline, Hauptman stresses that the Senecas were actors in their own history and demonstrated cultural and political resilience. Both Native belief, in the form of the Good Message of Handsome Lake, and Christianity were major forces in Seneca life; women continued to play important social and economic roles despite the demise of clan matrons' right to nominate the chiefs; and Senecas became involved in national and international competition in long-distance running and in lacrosse. The Seneca Nation also achieved noteworthy political successes in this period. The Senecas resisted allotment, and thus saved their reservations from breakup and sale. They recruited powerful allies, including attorneys, congressmen, journalists, and religious leaders. They saved their Oil Spring Reservation, winning a U.S. Supreme Court case against New York State on the issue of taxation and won remuneration in their Kansas Claims case. These efforts laid the groundwork for the Senecas' postwar endeavor to seek compensation before the Indian Claims Commission and pursuit of a series of land claims and tax lawsuits against New York State.

Distant Allies - Canada and the Anglo - Japanese Alliance, 1900 - 1923 (Hardcover): Peter W Noonan Distant Allies - Canada and the Anglo - Japanese Alliance, 1900 - 1923 (Hardcover)
Peter W Noonan
R924 R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Save R117 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Federal Theatre Project in the American South - The Carolina Playmakers and the Quest for American Drama (Hardcover):... The Federal Theatre Project in the American South - The Carolina Playmakers and the Quest for American Drama (Hardcover)
Cecelia Moore
R3,597 R2,536 Discovery Miles 25 360 Save R1,061 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Federal Theatre Project in the American South introduces the people and projects that shaped the regional identity of the Federal Theatre Project. When college theatre director Hallie Flanagan became head of this New Deal era jobs program in 1935, she envisioned a national theatre comprised of a network of theatres across the country. A regional approach was more than organizational; it was a conceptual model for a national art. Flanagan was part of the little theatre movement that had already developed a new American drama drawn from the distinctive heritage of each region and which they believed would, collectively, illustrate a national identity. The Federal Theatre plan relied on a successful regional model - the folk drama program at the University of North Carolina, led by Frederick Koch and Paul Green. Through a unique partnership of public university, private philanthropy and community participation, Koch had developed a successful playwriting program and extension service that built community theatres throughout the state. North Carolina, along with the rest of the Southern region, seemed an unpromising place for government theatre. Racial segregation and conservative politics limited the Federal Theatre's ability to experiment with new ideas in the region. Yet in North Carolina, the Project thrived. Amateur drama units became vibrant community theatres where whites and African Americans worked together. Project personnel launched The Lost Colony, one of the first so-called outdoor historical dramas that would become its own movement. The Federal Theatre sent unemployed dramatists, including future novelist Betty Smith, to the university to work with Koch and Green. They joined other playwrights, including African American writer Zora Neale Hurston, who came to North Carolina because of their own interest in folk drama. Their experience, told in this book, is a backdrop for each successive generation's debates over government, cultural expression, art and identity in the American nation.

Poudre Canyon (Hardcover): Barbara Fleming, Malcolm Mcneill Poudre Canyon (Hardcover)
Barbara Fleming, Malcolm Mcneill
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Our World War II Experience - As Told by Betty Arrington (Hardcover): Betty Arrington Our World War II Experience - As Told by Betty Arrington (Hardcover)
Betty Arrington; Contributions by Brett Byrum, Karla Byrum
R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
World War One in Global History 1914 to 1924 - A Brief Calendar of State Practice (Hardcover): Peter Macalister-Smith, Joachim... World War One in Global History 1914 to 1924 - A Brief Calendar of State Practice (Hardcover)
Peter Macalister-Smith, Joachim Schwietzke
R2,494 Discovery Miles 24 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Outwitting the Hun - My Escape From a German Prison Camp (Hardcover): Pat O'Brien Outwitting the Hun - My Escape From a German Prison Camp (Hardcover)
Pat O'Brien
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Destiny's Spear - From Hitler's Obsession to Patton's Possession (Hardcover): Rodney E. Walker Destiny's Spear - From Hitler's Obsession to Patton's Possession (Hardcover)
Rodney E. Walker
R619 R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Save R46 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
No Peace with Hitler - Why Churchill Chose to Fight WWII Alone Rather than Negotiate with Germany (Hardcover): Alan I Saltman No Peace with Hitler - Why Churchill Chose to Fight WWII Alone Rather than Negotiate with Germany (Hardcover)
Alan I Saltman
R1,323 Discovery Miles 13 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Religion as Resistance - Negotiating Authority in Italian Libya (Hardcover): Eileen Ryan Religion as Resistance - Negotiating Authority in Italian Libya (Hardcover)
Eileen Ryan
R2,899 Discovery Miles 28 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When Italian forces landed on the shores of Libya in 1911, many in Italy hailed it as an opportunity to embrace a Catholic national identity through imperial expansion. After decades of acrimony between an intransigent Church and the Italian state, enthusiasm for the imperial adventure helped incorporate Catholic interests in a new era of mass politics. Others among Italian imperialists - military officers and civil administrators - were more concerned with the challenges of governing a Muslim society, one in which the Sufi brotherhood of the Sanusiyya seemed dominant. Eileen Ryan illustrates what Italian imperialists thought would be the best methods to govern in Muslim North Africa and in turn highlights the contentious connection between religious and political authority in Italy. Telling this story requires an unraveling of the history of the Sanusiyya. During the fall of Qaddafi, Libyan protestors took up the flag of the Libyan Kingdom of Idris al-Sanusi, signaling an opportunity to reexamine Libya's colonial past. After decades of historiography discounting the influence of Sanusi elites in Libyan nationalism, the end of this regime opened up the possibility of reinterpreting the importance of religion, resistance, and Sanusi elites in Libya's colonial history. Religion as Resistance provides new perspectives on the history of collaboration between the Italian state and Idris al-Sanusi and questions the dichotomy between resistance and collaboration in the colonial world.

The Rough Road [microform] (Hardcover): William J 1863-1930 Locke The Rough Road [microform] (Hardcover)
William J 1863-1930 Locke
R943 Discovery Miles 9 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Long Island's Gold Coast Elite and the Great War (Paperback): Richard F. Welch Long Island's Gold Coast Elite and the Great War (Paperback)
Richard F. Welch
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Canada in Flanders, Volume III (Hardcover): Charles G.D. Roberts Canada in Flanders, Volume III (Hardcover)
Charles G.D. Roberts
R745 R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Save R57 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era - U.S. Protest and Central American Revolution (Hardcover): Nick Witham The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era - U.S. Protest and Central American Revolution (Hardcover)
Nick Witham
R4,575 Discovery Miles 45 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Reagan era is usually seen as an era of unheralded prosperity, and as a high-watermark of Republican success. President Ronald Reagan's belief in "Reaganomics", his media-friendly sound-bites and "can do" personality have come to define the era. However, this was also a time of domestic protest and unrest. Under Reagan the US was directly involved in the revolutions which were sweeping the Central Americas- El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala -and in Nicaragua Reagan armed the Contras who fought the Sandinistas. This book seeks to show how the left within the US reacted and protested against these events. The Nation, Verso Books and the Guardian exploded in popularity, riding high on the back of popular anti-interventionist sentiment in America, while the film-maker Oliver Stone led a group of directors making films with a radical left-wing message. The author shows how the1980s in America were a formative cultural period for the anti-Reaganites as well as the Reaganites, and in doing so charts a new history.

Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21 - Protest, Revolution and Commemoration (Hardcover): Ingrid Sharp, Matthew Stibbe,... Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21 - Protest, Revolution and Commemoration (Hardcover)
Ingrid Sharp, Matthew Stibbe, Corinne Painter
R3,032 Discovery Miles 30 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Socialist Women and the Great War: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, an open access book, is the first transnational study of left-wing women and socialist revolution during the First World War and its aftermath. Through a discussion of the key themes related to women and revolution, such as anti-militarism and violence, democracy and citizenship, and experience and life-writing, this book sheds new and necessary light on the everyday lives of socialist women in the early 20th century. The participants of the 1918-1919 revolutions in Europe, and the accompanying outbreaks of social unrest elsewhere in the world, have typically been portrayed as war-weary soldiers and suited committee delegates-in other words, as men. Exceptions like Rosa Luxemburg exist, but ordinary women are often cast as passive recipients of the vote. This is not true; rather, women were pivotal actors in the making, imagining, and remembering of the social and political upheavals of this time. From wartime strikes, to revolutionary violence, to issues of suffrage, this book reveals how women constructed their own revolutionary selves in order to bring about lasting social change and provides a fresh comparative approach to women's socialist activism. As such, this is a vitally important resource for all postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in gender studies, international relations, and the history and legacy of World War I. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Findlay Market of Cincinnati - A History (Hardcover): Alyssa McClanahan Findlay Market of Cincinnati - A History (Hardcover)
Alyssa McClanahan
R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sears Crosstown in Memphis - From Catalogues to a Concourse (Hardcover): Bill Haltom Sears Crosstown in Memphis - From Catalogues to a Concourse (Hardcover)
Bill Haltom
R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Stigma Cities - The Reputation and History of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas (Hardcover): Jonathan Foster Stigma Cities - The Reputation and History of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas (Hardcover)
Jonathan Foster
R1,283 Discovery Miles 12 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that he loved, Jonathan Foster was forced to come to grips with its reputation for racial violence. In so doing, he began to question how other cities dealt with similar kinds of stigmas that resulted from behavior and events that fell outside accepted norms. He wanted to know how such stigmas changed over time and how they affected a city's reputation and residents. Those questions led to this examination of the role of stigma and history in three very different cities: Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. In the era of civil rights, Birmingham became known as ""Bombingham,"" a place of constant reactionary and racist violence. Las Vegas emerged as the nation's most recognizable Sin City, and San Francisco's tolerance of homosexuality made it the perceived capital of Gay America. Stigma Cites shows how cultural and political trends influenced perceptions of disrepute in these cities, and how, in turn, their status as sites of vice and violence influenced development decisions, from Birmingham's efforts to shed its reputation as racist, to San Francisco's transformation of its stigma into a point of pride, to Las Vegas's use of gambling to promote tourism and economic growth. The first work to investigate the important effects of stigmatized identities on urban places, Foster's innovative study suggests that reputation, no less than physical and economic forces, explains how cities develop and why. An absorbing work of history and urban sociology, the book illuminates the significance of perceptions in shaping metropolitan history.

The Foot Soldier (Hardcover): John N Defoore The Foot Soldier (Hardcover)
John N Defoore
R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Archive Thief - The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust (Hardcover): Lisa Moses Leff The Archive Thief - The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Lisa Moses Leff
R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Born into poverty in Russian Poland in 1911, Zosa Szajkowski (Shy-KOV-ski) was a self-made man who managed to make a life for himself as an intellectual, first as a journalist in 1930s Paris, and then, after a harrowing escape to New York in 1941, as a scholar. Although he never taught at a university or even earned a PhD, Szajkowski became one of the world's foremost experts on the history of the Jews in modern France, publishing in Yiddish, English, and Hebrew. His work opened up new ways of thinking about Jewish emancipation, economic and social modernization, and the rise of modern anti-Semitism. But beneath Szajkowski's scholarly success lay a shameful secret. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the scholar stole tens of thousands of archival documents related to French Jewish history from public archives and private synagogue collections in France and moved them, illicitly, to New York. There, he used them as the basis for his pathbreaking articles. Eventually, he sold them, piecemeal, to American and Israeli research libraries, where they still remain today. Why did this respectable historian become an archive thief? And why did librarians in the United States and Israel buy these materials from him, turning a blind eye to the signs of ownership they bore? These are the questions that motivate this gripping tale. Throughout, it is clear that all involved-perpetrator, victims, and buyers-saw what Szajkowski was doing through the prism of the Holocaust. The buyers shared a desire to save these precious remnants of the European Jewish past, left behind on a continent where six million Jews had just been killed by the Nazis and their collaborators. The scholars who read Szajkowski's studies, based largely on the documents he had stolen, saw the treasures as offering an unparalleled window into the history that led to that catastrophe. And the Jewish caretakers of many of the institutions Szajkowski robbed in France saw the losses as a sign of their difficulties reconstructing their community after the Holocaust, when the balance of power in the Jewish world was shifting away from Europe to new centers in America and Israel. Based on painstaking research, Lisa Leff reconstructs Szajkowski's story in all its ambiguity by taking us backstage at the archives, revealing the powerful ideological, economic and scientific forces that made Holocaust-era Jewish scholars care more deeply than ever before about preserving the remnants of their past.

Franklin Roosevelt - A Captivating Guide to the Life of FDR (Hardcover): Captivating History Franklin Roosevelt - A Captivating Guide to the Life of FDR (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R704 R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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