Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability 9780824857363

Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability 0824851579, 9780824851576

In Spectacular Accumulation, Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late si

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Tokugawa Ieyasu : Shogun : A Biography 9780893462109, 0893462101

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Shogun: The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler (Tuttle Classics) 9784805317174, 2022931885, 4805317175

Uncover the true story of the man who unified medieval Japan. For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who

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Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed 9780824863227

Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan was a best-seller from the moment it was published in London in 1727. Born in

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The I Ching in Tokugawa Thought and Culture 9780824874735

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The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture 9780292784727

The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World li

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Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture 9780814764794

Winner of the 2015 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the National Communication Association As an omnipresent figure of th

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The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan 9780822392538

An analysis of how Uzbekistans cultural and political elites engaged in a program of nation-building through culture, pa

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Roman Slavery and Roman Material Culture 9781442660991

The contributors engage with questions concerning the slave trade, manumission, slave education, containment and movemen

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Concrete and Culture: A Material History 9781861899330

Concrete has been used in arches, vaults, and domes dating as far back as the Roman Empire. Today, it is everywhere—in o

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