Pioneers in the Tropics: The Political Organisation of Japanese in an Immigrant Community in Brazil 1000324605, 9781000324600

Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil 9780822381280

Looks at a group of 19th century Brazilian doctors, the Bahian Tropicalista School, and their efforts to both counter Eu

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Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame 9780520947665

Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of "savagery" in Japanese c

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Tropics of Savagery : The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame [1 ed.] 9780520947665, 9780520265783

Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of "savagery" in Japanese c

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The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community 9780824864996

Ritual is too often equated with unvarying or repetitive behavior. This impression is encouraged by the ethnographic ten

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Urban Japanese Housewives: At Home and in the Community 9780824843854

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Rice Postproduction Technology in the Tropics 9780824886059

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Political (In)Justice: Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina 0822958856, 9780822958857

Why do attempts by authoritarian regimes to legalize their political repression differ so dramatically? Why do some disp

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An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant 9780813548661

At the turn of the twentieth century, M. E. Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who,

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Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii, 1885–1941 9780824843595

Kawakami Barbara F. : Barbara F. Kawakami (née Oyama) was born in Japan in 1921 and immigrated to Hawaii with her fam

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Cattle in the Backlands: Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics 9781477311158

Brazil has the second-largest cattle herd in the world and is a major exporter of beef. While ranching in the Amazon—and

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