Teaching the Holocaust: educational dimensions, principles by Ian Davies

By Ian Davies

Deals a entire remedy of Holocaust schooling, mixing introductory fabric, vast views and useful educating case experiences. This paintings exhibits how and why students may still find out about the Holocaust.

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By Ian Davies

Deals a entire remedy of Holocaust schooling, mixing introductory fabric, vast views and useful educating case experiences. This paintings exhibits how and why students may still find out about the Holocaust.

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Japan's Struggle with Internationalism by Ian Nish

By Ian Nish

This a learn of the Manchurian and Shanghai crises, the 1st severe war of words among Japan and the realm group. The Manchurian quandary was once one of many significant foreign crises of the interval among global Wars I and II. For Britain and the US, it bred a brand new mistrust of jap long term nationwide ambitions. It additionally introduced domestic to all involved the weaknesses of the League of countries and the opposite tools of collective defense which were devised to accommodate difficulties of the Pacific Ocean quarter. the 1st concentration of this learn is on how one of many foreign our bodies of the time, the League of countries, tried to deal with the emergency that broke out within the east in September 1931. the second one concentration is at the conflict of attitudes in jap politics. The interval coated through the Manchurian main issue was once the purpose while civilian govt in Japan used to be heavily challenged for the 1st time within the twentieth century. The booklet deals a clean account of the trouble, employing new fabrics, in eastern and in English, that have develop into on hand and which were drawn upon for this paintings. those throw new mild at the struggles either inside of Japan and between League lovers to make sure that Japan, the Asian-state which was once straight away so much sturdy and economically such a lot winning, are usually not turn out in isolation.

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By Ian Nish

This a learn of the Manchurian and Shanghai crises, the 1st severe war of words among Japan and the realm group. The Manchurian quandary was once one of many significant foreign crises of the interval among global Wars I and II. For Britain and the US, it bred a brand new mistrust of jap long term nationwide ambitions. It additionally introduced domestic to all involved the weaknesses of the League of countries and the opposite tools of collective defense which were devised to accommodate difficulties of the Pacific Ocean quarter. the 1st concentration of this learn is on how one of many foreign our bodies of the time, the League of countries, tried to deal with the emergency that broke out within the east in September 1931. the second one concentration is at the conflict of attitudes in jap politics. The interval coated through the Manchurian main issue was once the purpose while civilian govt in Japan used to be heavily challenged for the 1st time within the twentieth century. The booklet deals a clean account of the trouble, employing new fabrics, in eastern and in English, that have develop into on hand and which were drawn upon for this paintings. those throw new mild at the struggles either inside of Japan and between League lovers to make sure that Japan, the Asian-state which was once straight away so much sturdy and economically such a lot winning, are usually not turn out in isolation.

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Winners in peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and postwar Japan by Richard B. Finn

By Richard B. Finn

Singular for its breadth and stability, Winners in Peace chronicles the yankee career of Japan, an episode that profoundly formed the postwar international. Richard B. Finn, who participated within the career as a tender naval officer and diplomat, tells the complete tale of the actions from 1945 to 1952. He makes a speciality of the 2 major actors, common Douglas MacArthur and jap leading Minister Shigeru Yoshida, and information the era's significant occasions, courses, and personalities, either American and Japanese.Finn attracts on a magnificent variety of sources--American, eastern, British, and Australian--including interviews with approximately 100 individuals within the career. He describes the struggle crimes trials, constitutional reforms, and American efforts to rebuild Japan. The paintings of George Kennan in making political balance and fiscal restoration the head targets of the USA turned severe within the face of the constructing chilly War.Winners in Peace will reduction our realizing of Japan today--its financial development, its variety of govt, and the robust pacifist spirit of its humans.

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By Richard B. Finn

Singular for its breadth and stability, Winners in Peace chronicles the yankee career of Japan, an episode that profoundly formed the postwar international. Richard B. Finn, who participated within the career as a tender naval officer and diplomat, tells the complete tale of the actions from 1945 to 1952. He makes a speciality of the 2 major actors, common Douglas MacArthur and jap leading Minister Shigeru Yoshida, and information the era's significant occasions, courses, and personalities, either American and Japanese.Finn attracts on a magnificent variety of sources--American, eastern, British, and Australian--including interviews with approximately 100 individuals within the career. He describes the struggle crimes trials, constitutional reforms, and American efforts to rebuild Japan. The paintings of George Kennan in making political balance and fiscal restoration the head targets of the USA turned severe within the face of the constructing chilly War.Winners in Peace will reduction our realizing of Japan today--its financial development, its variety of govt, and the robust pacifist spirit of its humans.

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Critical Buddhism, Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist by James Mark Shields

By James Mark Shields

Within the overdue Nineteen Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties, the relative calm international of eastern Buddhist scholarship used to be thrown into chaos with the ebook of numerous works via Buddhist students Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro, devoted to the merchandising of anything they referred to as serious Buddhism (hihan bukkyo). of their quest to reestablish a 'true' - rational, moral and humanist - type of East Asian Buddhism, the serious Buddhists undertook a thorough deconstruction of ancient and modern East Asian Buddhism, quite Zen. whereas their arguable paintings has got a few recognition in English-language scholarship, this can be the 1st book-length therapy of serious Buddhism as either a philosophical and non secular circulation, the place the traces among scholarship and perform blur. offering a severe and confident research of severe Buddhism, fairly the epistemological different types of critica and topica, this ebook examines modern theories of information and ethics that allows you to situate serious Buddhism inside smooth eastern and Buddhist notion in addition to with regards to present developments in modern Western concept.

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By James Mark Shields

Within the overdue Nineteen Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties, the relative calm international of eastern Buddhist scholarship used to be thrown into chaos with the ebook of numerous works via Buddhist students Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro, devoted to the merchandising of anything they referred to as serious Buddhism (hihan bukkyo). of their quest to reestablish a 'true' - rational, moral and humanist - type of East Asian Buddhism, the serious Buddhists undertook a thorough deconstruction of ancient and modern East Asian Buddhism, quite Zen. whereas their arguable paintings has got a few recognition in English-language scholarship, this can be the 1st book-length therapy of serious Buddhism as either a philosophical and non secular circulation, the place the traces among scholarship and perform blur. offering a severe and confident research of severe Buddhism, fairly the epistemological different types of critica and topica, this ebook examines modern theories of information and ethics that allows you to situate serious Buddhism inside smooth eastern and Buddhist notion in addition to with regards to present developments in modern Western concept.

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Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

By Thomas Keneally

As millions confronted demise in Nazi-occupied Poland an not likely savior materialized within the shadow of Auschwitz. A flamboyant German industrialist grew right into a residing legend to the Jews of Cracow. Oskar Schindler used to be a heavy-drinking, womanizer whom the struggle remodeled right into a guy with a challenge, a compassionate angel of mercy. this can be a major tale of massive hazards and massive profits, as Schindler defied and outwitted the SS to guard the beleaguered Jews who labored for him.

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By Thomas Keneally

As millions confronted demise in Nazi-occupied Poland an not likely savior materialized within the shadow of Auschwitz. A flamboyant German industrialist grew right into a residing legend to the Jews of Cracow. Oskar Schindler used to be a heavy-drinking, womanizer whom the struggle remodeled right into a guy with a challenge, a compassionate angel of mercy. this can be a major tale of massive hazards and massive profits, as Schindler defied and outwitted the SS to guard the beleaguered Jews who labored for him.

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Fighting Ships of the Far East: Japan and Korea AD 612-1639 by Stephen Turnbull

By Stephen Turnbull

Over the centuries, naval family members among Japan and Korea seem to have alternated among peaceable exchange and outright hostility. in spite of the fact that, this impact could be deceptive, as a lot of what handed for mercantile job used to be in truth performed via eastern pirate fleets, who pillaged the coasts of Korea and China in a lasting culture that culminated within the maximum pirate raid of all: Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea in 1592. This used to be the clash that concerned Ming China and nearly dragged in Siam. It additionally resulted in Korea constructing East Asia's most famed warship: the mythical turtle send, that's defined for the 1st time in complete technical element during this ebook.

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By Stephen Turnbull

Over the centuries, naval family members among Japan and Korea seem to have alternated among peaceable exchange and outright hostility. in spite of the fact that, this impact could be deceptive, as a lot of what handed for mercantile job used to be in truth performed via eastern pirate fleets, who pillaged the coasts of Korea and China in a lasting culture that culminated within the maximum pirate raid of all: Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea in 1592. This used to be the clash that concerned Ming China and nearly dragged in Siam. It additionally resulted in Korea constructing East Asia's most famed warship: the mythical turtle send, that's defined for the 1st time in complete technical element during this ebook.

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Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations by Kent E. Calder

By Kent E. Calder

Regardless of the iconic significance of the U.S.–Japan safety alliance, the wider dating among the 2 nations is this day beset via sobering new problems. during this entire comparative research of the transpacific alliance and its political, fiscal, and social foundations, Kent E. Calder, a number one Japan expert, asserts that bilateral kinfolk among the 2 nations are dangerously eroding as either search broader innovations in a globally orientated world. Calder records the quiet erosion of America’s multidimensional ties with Japan as China rises, generations switch, and new forces come up in either American and eastern politics. He then assesses results for a twenty-first-century army alliance with bold coordination necessities, explores replacement overseas paradigms for facing the U.S., followed via Britain, Germany, and China, and gives prescriptions for restoring U.S.–Japan kinfolk to power once more.

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By Kent E. Calder

Regardless of the iconic significance of the U.S.–Japan safety alliance, the wider dating among the 2 nations is this day beset via sobering new problems. during this entire comparative research of the transpacific alliance and its political, fiscal, and social foundations, Kent E. Calder, a number one Japan expert, asserts that bilateral kinfolk among the 2 nations are dangerously eroding as either search broader innovations in a globally orientated world. Calder records the quiet erosion of America’s multidimensional ties with Japan as China rises, generations switch, and new forces come up in either American and eastern politics. He then assesses results for a twenty-first-century army alliance with bold coordination necessities, explores replacement overseas paradigms for facing the U.S., followed via Britain, Germany, and China, and gives prescriptions for restoring U.S.–Japan kinfolk to power once more.

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Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan by Elyssa Faison

By Elyssa Faison

On the flip of the 20th century, Japan launched into a undertaking to modernize its society and undefined. For the 1st time, younger jap girls have been persuaded to depart their households and input the manufacturing facility. Managing ladies focuses on Japan's interwar cloth undefined, studying how manufacturing facility managers, social reformers, and the kingdom created visions of a in particular jap femininity. Faison unearths that girl manufacturing unit employees have been developed as "women" instead of as "workers" and that this womanly perfect used to be used to strengthen labor-management practices, inculcate ethical and civic values, and improve a method for holding union actions and moves. In an built-in research of gender ideology and ideologies of nationalism and ethnicity, Faison indicates how this discourse on women's salary paintings either produced and mirrored anxieties approximately women's social roles in smooth Japan.

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By Elyssa Faison

On the flip of the 20th century, Japan launched into a undertaking to modernize its society and undefined. For the 1st time, younger jap girls have been persuaded to depart their households and input the manufacturing facility. Managing ladies focuses on Japan's interwar cloth undefined, studying how manufacturing facility managers, social reformers, and the kingdom created visions of a in particular jap femininity. Faison unearths that girl manufacturing unit employees have been developed as "women" instead of as "workers" and that this womanly perfect used to be used to strengthen labor-management practices, inculcate ethical and civic values, and improve a method for holding union actions and moves. In an built-in research of gender ideology and ideologies of nationalism and ethnicity, Faison indicates how this discourse on women's salary paintings either produced and mirrored anxieties approximately women's social roles in smooth Japan.

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Bergen Belsen Camp: Trial of Josef Kramer and 44 others by Javier Gómez Pérez

By Javier Gómez Pérez

BERGEN BELSEN focus CAMP CASE No. 10: THE BERGEN BELSEN TRIAL TRIAL OF JOSEF KRAMER AND forty four OTHERS BRITISH army courtroom, LUNEBURG, seventeenth SEPTEMBER-17th NOVEMBER, 1945

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By Javier Gómez Pérez

BERGEN BELSEN focus CAMP CASE No. 10: THE BERGEN BELSEN TRIAL TRIAL OF JOSEF KRAMER AND forty four OTHERS BRITISH army courtroom, LUNEBURG, seventeenth SEPTEMBER-17th NOVEMBER, 1945

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