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Ian Buruma Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 (Modern Library Chronicles)
Modern Library 2004 0812972864 / 9780812972863 Paperback Very Good
"Shows edge rubbing, handling and light soiling.() In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin, eventually emerging under American tutelage as a pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo. What explains the seismic changes that thrust this small island nation so violently onto the world stage? In part, Ian Buruma argues, the story is one of a newly united nation that felt it must play catch-up to the established Western powers, just as Germany and Italy did, a process that involved, in addition to outward colonial exp ID: mon0000110810"
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7.82 USD
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IAN BURUMA PLAYING THE GAME
Farrar Straus Giroux 1991 0224027581 / 9780224027588 Hardcover Like New
"Like New Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, (Fine with Fine Dust Jacket), minor rubbing and creasing to lamination on dust jacket otherwise a very fine copy -ss ID: mon0000144231"
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14.50 USD
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IAN BURUMA PLAYING THE GAME
Farrar Straus Giroux 1991 0224027581 / 9780224027588 Hardcover Very Good
"tight, unmarked, light delamination of dust jacket, light creasing of edges ID: mon0000100392"
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