Global books folkestone (73 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. With the addition of a contextualized introduction, here is the first annotated translation of the eighth- century clan history T?shi Kaden or the History of the Fujiwara House. Hitherto, scholars have focused on the more famous eighth-century imperial histories Nihon Shoki and Kojiki, but o…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Prompted by increasing evidence of the worlds shift to the right, not least among the industrialised nations, here is a cri de coeur from almost the last survivor from the post-war crop of European sociologists and scholars of Japanese Studies. After six decades following developments in Jap…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. South Korea 1957. Sukey, an intelligent graduate with much promise, falls in love with a man, Kwon, who confesses to her that he has been a North Korean spy. It is four years since the Korean War ended in a cease-fire (having started on 25 June 1950). Even though fighting is suspended, hosti…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Kiyonori Kanasaka, a distinguished geographer at Kyoto University, is widely recognized as Japans leading researcher on the Victorian traveller Isabella Bird. He has published extensively in Japanese on the subject, including a full annotated translation of the original two-volume edition of…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. It is 1942. Shanghai after Pearl Harbor. Newly-arrived Eiko Kishimoto, a twenty-year-old, London-educated Japanese housewife, settles into a privileged existence in the French Concession as a member of the community of the Occupying Power. Initially, her days are filled with high society lun…

Condición: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. Contains [x] 132 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch.…

Condición: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. Contains [x] 132 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch.…

Condición: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. Contains [x] 132 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch.…

Condición: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. Contains [x] 132 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch.…

Condición: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original grey paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. ISBN 1860340040. Contains [xxvii] 210 printed pages of text. Small crease line to the Glossary page, without any ownership markings. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. My Korea: Forty Years Without a Horsehair Hat is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir and part miscellany, which introduces traditional and contemporary culture through a series of essays, stories, anecdotes and poems. The book seeks to tell the reader all that he or she needs to kn…

Condición: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep red paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 278 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations. Minimal marking to the fore edge. Fine clean condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused…

Condición: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep red paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 278 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations. Minimal marking to the fore edge. Very near Fine clean unopened condition book in Fine condit…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. "Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn: Japanese Legends, Life and Culture" edited by Sukehiro Hirakawa. This copy: First edition. Global Books Ltd (Folkestone), 1997. Hardcover. ix, 284 pp. Size: 23.0 x 15.0 cm Language: English Condition: Dust jacket: Good…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Prompted by increasing evidence of the worlds shift to the right, not least among the industrialised nations, here is a cri de coeur from almost the last survivor from the post-war crop of European sociologists and scholars of Japanese Studies. After six decades following developments in Jap…

Condición: Fine. First edition in publisher's original colour photographic card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 214 printed pages of text with colour illustrations throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch Membe…

Condición: Fine. First edition in publisher's original colour photographic card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 214 printed pages of text with colour illustrations throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch Membe…

Condición: Fine. First edition in publisher's original colour photographic card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 214 printed pages of text with colour illustrations throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published, unused and unopened new book. We carry this book in stock for immediate dispatch Membe…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. With the addition of a contextualized introduction, here is the first annotated translation of the eighth- century clan history T?shi Kaden or the History of the Fujiwara House. Hitherto, scholars have focused on the more famous eighth-century imperial histories Nihon Shoki and Kojiki, but o…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. South Korea 1957. Sukey, an intelligent graduate with much promise, falls in love with a man, Kwon, who confesses to her that he has been a North Korean spy. It is four years since the Korean War ended in a cease-fire (having started on 25 June 1950). Even though fighting is suspended, hosti…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. It is 1942. Shanghai after Pearl Harbor. Newly-arrived Eiko Kishimoto, a twenty-year-old, London-educated Japanese housewife, settles into a privileged existence in the French Concession as a member of the community of the Occupying Power. Initially, her days are filled with high society lun…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Kiyonori Kanasaka, a distinguished geographer at Kyoto University, is widely recognized as Japans leading researcher on the Victorian traveller Isabella Bird. He has published extensively in Japanese on the subject, including a full annotated translation of the original two-volume edition of…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Considered a doyen of Meiji studies, particularly in the field of the newspaper press in Japan, former journalist Jim Huffman and H. Orth Hirt Professor of History [Emeritus] at Wittenberg University, was recently honoured (2017) with the Distinguished Service Award by the Association of Asi…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Not a contemporary diary as such, but a write-up of notes made towards the end of White's career spanning thirty-eight years. Importantly, it includes reflective passages on the momentous developments of the later 1930s, as Japan moved onto a war-footing in China - and as Consul-General in t…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. As part of the growing scholarship on family and empire, this study examines Britains presence in China through the lens of one family, arguing that, as the physical embodiment of the imperial project, it provided a social and cultural mechanism for mediating Britains imperial power, authori…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Early Photography in Vietnam is a fascinating and outstanding pictorial record of photography in Vietnam during the century of French rule. In more than 500 photographs, many published here for the first time, the volume records Vietnams capture and occupation by the French, the wide-ranging…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Mitford (later to become the first Lord Redesdale) was an urbane aristocrat, had charm, looks and excellent manners. He was always in the right place at the right time, almost drowned, could have burned to death, was shot at, and was nearly cut down by samurai swords. But 'Bertie', as he was…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Filling an important gap in extraterritoriality studies and in the history of Anglo-Korean relations, this benchmark study examines Britains exercise of extraterritorial rights in Korea from 1884 until Koreas formal annexation by Japan in 1910. It shows how the treaty provisionswhich provide…