Origins of the Japanese Language: Lectures in Japan During the Academic Year 1977–78 0295957662, 9780295957661

The revolutionary origins of modern Japan 0804710481

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TheMaking of Monolingual Japan: Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity 9781847696588

Japan is regarded as a model case of successful language modernization. It is also often erroneously believed to be ling

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Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University 9780226109237

Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academ

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The Japanese Language

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The Origins of the Russo-Japanese War 0582491142, 9780582491144

The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 has been seen as the turning point of the development of the modern world. Written by a

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The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy 9781350079557, 9781350079588, 9781350079564

What is a bureaucracy, from where does it come, and how does it develop? Japanese have long described their nation as a

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The Social Origins of Language 9781400888146

How human language evolved from the need for social communication The origins of human language remain hotly debated.

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Yoritomo and the Founding of the First Bakufu: The Origins of Dual Government in Japan 9780804780100

This book is a much expanded and wholly rewritten treatment of the subject of the author's first book, Warrior Gove

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Kansai Japanese : the language of Ōsaka, Kyōto, and Western Japan 0804818681

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The Japanese Language 0226527174, 9780226527178

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