Inventing Japan: 1853-1964by Ian BurumaPaperback208 Pages2004 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...

Japan's Modern Myths   by Carol GluckPaperback424 Pages1987   Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before...

New Orleans & The World: 1718-2018 Tricentennial AnthologyLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Richard Campanella, Walter Isaacson, Lawrence Powell, Sally Reeves, Nancy DixonHardcover2017 New Orleans celebrates the 300th anniversary of its...

Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement by Leora Auslander & Tara ZahraPaperback348 Pages2018 Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool. And yet...

On the Corps: USMC Wisdom from the Pages of Leatherneck, Marines Corps Gazette, and ProceedingsLt. Col. Charles P. Neimeyer USMC (Ret.)Hardcover 280 pages 2008 The purpose of this anthology is to serve as a ready resource of material that defines the...

Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinemaby James Chapman and Nicholas CullPaperback256 PagesJuly 2009Popular cinema is saturated with images and narratives of empire. With "Projecting Empire", Chapman and Cull have written the first major study...