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Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order /

Table of Contents: “…/ Michael NYLAN -- Euro-Japanese universalism, Korean Confucianism, and aesthetic communities / Wonsuk CHANG -- State power and the Confucian classics : observations on the Mengzi jiewen and truth management under the first Ming emperor / Bernhard FUEHRER -- Striving For democracy : Confucian political philosophy in the Ming and Qing dynasties / WU Genyou.…”
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Authority and obedience Romans 13:1-7 in modern Japan / by Miyata, Mitsuo, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Translator's introduction: Christianity and conscientious citizens in Miyata Mitsuo's modern Japan -- Preface to the English translation (2008) -- Preface (2003) -- Introduction: Analytical perspective -- The Protestant missionaries -- The Ten Commandments and the true God -- Japanese-language annotated editions of Romans -- Romans 13: 1-7 and Christianity in the Meiji Period -- From the 1870s to the Uchimura Kanzō Lèse-majesté incident -- In the wake of the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars -- Taishō democracy and Romans 13: 1-7 -- Uchimura Kanzō's Study of Romans -- Christians and Taishō democracy -- Christianity during the establishment of emperor-system fascism -- Romans 13:1-7 in the early 1930s -- The Kokutai clarification movement and "Christianity on Japanese terms" -- Romans 13:1-7 during the Sino-Japanese War -- In the midst of the Pacific War -- The establishment of the Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan -- Theologians and Romans 13: 1-7 -- Social scientists and Romans 13: 1-7 -- Between martyrdom for the nation and martyrdom for the faith -- Conclusion: Reflections on the past and future -- Romans 13:1-7 in postwar Japan -- Lessons and reflections.…”
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Authority and obedience Romans 13:1-7 in modern Japan / by Miyata, Mitsuo, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Translator's introduction: Christianity and conscientious citizens in Miyata Mitsuo's modern Japan -- Preface to the English translation (2008) -- Preface (2003) -- Introduction: Analytical perspective -- The Protestant missionaries -- The Ten Commandments and the true God -- Japanese-language annotated editions of Romans -- Romans 13: 1-7 and Christianity in the Meiji Period -- From the 1870s to the Uchimura Kanzō Lèse-majesté incident -- In the wake of the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars -- Taishō democracy and Romans 13: 1-7 -- Uchimura Kanzō's Study of Romans -- Christians and Taishō democracy -- Christianity during the establishment of emperor-system fascism -- Romans 13:1-7 in the early 1930s -- The Kokutai clarification movement and "Christianity on Japanese terms" -- Romans 13:1-7 during the Sino-Japanese War -- In the midst of the Pacific War -- The establishment of the Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan -- Theologians and Romans 13: 1-7 -- Social scientists and Romans 13: 1-7 -- Between martyrdom for the nation and martyrdom for the faith -- Conclusion: Reflections on the past and future -- Romans 13:1-7 in postwar Japan -- Lessons and reflections.…”
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Reading colonial Japan text, context, and critique /

Table of Contents: “…Lee -- Eating for the emperor : the nationalization of settler homes and bodies in the Kominka Era / Helen J.S. …”
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Anatomizing Civil War studies in Lucan's epic technique / by Dinter, Martin T.

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Reading colonial Japan text, context, and critique /

Table of Contents: “…Lee -- Eating for the emperor : the nationalization of settler homes and bodies in the Kominka Era / Helen J.S. …”
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Anatomizing Civil War studies in Lucan's epic technique / by Dinter, Martin T.

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Religion and the making of modern east Asia by DuBois, Thomas David, 1969-

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Religion and the making of modern east Asia by DuBois, Thomas David, 1969-

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Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages : Routes and Myths / by Walker, Rose

Table of Contents: “…The Lie of the Land; Art and Architecture Along the Roman Roads; The Via Herculea: Iberians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans; The Via Augusta and Monumentalizing the Provincial Capitals; The Golden Triangle: Astorga, Braga, and Lugo; East-West and Mining the Meseta; Art along the Roads in the Second and Third Centuries AD; Sarcophagi; Emperor Diocletian's Reorganisation; 2. Believing and Belonging; Late Antiquity and the Wider Mediterranean; Theodosius I - a Spanish emperor?…”
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Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages : Routes and Myths / by Walker, Rose

Table of Contents: “…The Lie of the Land; Art and Architecture Along the Roman Roads; The Via Herculea: Iberians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans; The Via Augusta and Monumentalizing the Provincial Capitals; The Golden Triangle: Astorga, Braga, and Lugo; East-West and Mining the Meseta; Art along the Roads in the Second and Third Centuries AD; Sarcophagi; Emperor Diocletian's Reorganisation; 2. Believing and Belonging; Late Antiquity and the Wider Mediterranean; Theodosius I - a Spanish emperor?…”
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Ancient Rome by Dunstan, William E.

Table of Contents: “…From Tiberius to Nero : the Julio-Claudian dynasty -- From Vespasian to Domitian : the Flavian dynasty -- From Nerva to Marcus Aurelius : the five good emperors -- Government, economy, and society in the first and second centuries -- Architecture and sculpture in the first and second centuries -- Literature in the first and second centuries -- Commodus and the Severan dynasty -- Third-century imperial crisis and first phase of recovery -- Reorganization of Diocletian and Constantine -- Last years of the united empire -- Society and culture in the later empire -- Rise of Christianity -- Christian triumph and controversy -- Dismemberment of the Roman Empire in the West -- Epilogue : the thousand-year survival of the Roman Empire in the East.…”
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Ancient Rome by Dunstan, William E.

Table of Contents: “…From Tiberius to Nero : the Julio-Claudian dynasty -- From Vespasian to Domitian : the Flavian dynasty -- From Nerva to Marcus Aurelius : the five good emperors -- Government, economy, and society in the first and second centuries -- Architecture and sculpture in the first and second centuries -- Literature in the first and second centuries -- Commodus and the Severan dynasty -- Third-century imperial crisis and first phase of recovery -- Reorganization of Diocletian and Constantine -- Last years of the united empire -- Society and culture in the later empire -- Rise of Christianity -- Christian triumph and controversy -- Dismemberment of the Roman Empire in the West -- Epilogue : the thousand-year survival of the Roman Empire in the East.…”
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Opera and sovereignty transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy / by Feldman, Martha

Table of Contents: “…Of myth and the mythographer ; Themistocles, hero ; History as myth ; Sovereigns and two heroes ; The exemplary prince and the loyal son : Artaxerxes and Arbaces ; The conquering lover-king : Alexander the Great ; A hapless emperor : Hadrian ; Proud hero and imperial autocrat : Aetius and Valentinian III ; The king cometh ; Bataille's sovereigns : a postscript on identification --…”
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Victory in defeat the Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 / by Urwin, Gregory J. W., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…"Issue in doubt" : the siege of Wake Island -- "The emperor has ... presented you with your lives" : the shock of capture -- "Very odd people indeed" : the first twenty-four hours in captivity -- "The Japanese continue to treat us with respect" : a deceptively gentle transition to POW life -- "A real hell ship" : from Wake Island to Yokohama on the Nitta Maru -- "Never had I felt so desolate or so weary" : from murder at sea to despair on land -- "The most painful days we spent in prison camp" : hitting bottom at Woosung -- "The Japanese Army ... will improve your conditions" : turning the corner at Woosung -- "Without Red Cross help ... we would never have pulled through" : the impact of outside aid -- "I thought they handled themselves reasonably well" : Japanese-POW relations at Woosung -- "You God damn Americans don't understand anything" : strains, outrages, and departures -- "This camp is the best one that the Japs have" : a new commandant and a new camp -- A hellacious damn deal till we finished" : pushed to the edge on Mount Fuji -- "Optimism ... is running high" : hope revives at Kiangwan -- "The pleasure of raising our flag over the enemy's homeland" : to Japan and liberation -- "98 US PW, 5-10-43" : the Wake Island diaspora, 1942-1945 -- "We had a bond there that's still going" : why so many came home.…”
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Law and empire : ideas, practices, actors /

Table of Contents: “…/ Antonis Anastasopoulos -- Royal grace, royal punishment : ceremonial entries and the pardoning of criminals in France, c. 1440-1560 -- Neil murphy -- Divine violence to uphold moral values : the casebook of an Emperor Guan temple in Hunan province in 1851-1852 / Barend J. ter Haar.…”
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Penguins : natural history and conservation /

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Opera and sovereignty transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy / by Feldman, Martha

Table of Contents: “…Of myth and the mythographer ; Themistocles, hero ; History as myth ; Sovereigns and two heroes ; The exemplary prince and the loyal son : Artaxerxes and Arbaces ; The conquering lover-king : Alexander the Great ; A hapless emperor : Hadrian ; Proud hero and imperial autocrat : Aetius and Valentinian III ; The king cometh ; Bataille's sovereigns : a postscript on identification --…”
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Victory in defeat the Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 / by Urwin, Gregory J. W., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…"Issue in doubt" : the siege of Wake Island -- "The emperor has ... presented you with your lives" : the shock of capture -- "Very odd people indeed" : the first twenty-four hours in captivity -- "The Japanese continue to treat us with respect" : a deceptively gentle transition to POW life -- "A real hell ship" : from Wake Island to Yokohama on the Nitta Maru -- "Never had I felt so desolate or so weary" : from murder at sea to despair on land -- "The most painful days we spent in prison camp" : hitting bottom at Woosung -- "The Japanese Army ... will improve your conditions" : turning the corner at Woosung -- "Without Red Cross help ... we would never have pulled through" : the impact of outside aid -- "I thought they handled themselves reasonably well" : Japanese-POW relations at Woosung -- "You God damn Americans don't understand anything" : strains, outrages, and departures -- "This camp is the best one that the Japs have" : a new commandant and a new camp -- A hellacious damn deal till we finished" : pushed to the edge on Mount Fuji -- "Optimism ... is running high" : hope revives at Kiangwan -- "The pleasure of raising our flag over the enemy's homeland" : to Japan and liberation -- "98 US PW, 5-10-43" : the Wake Island diaspora, 1942-1945 -- "We had a bond there that's still going" : why so many came home.…”
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Law and empire : ideas, practices, actors /

Table of Contents: “…/ Antonis Anastasopoulos -- Royal grace, royal punishment : ceremonial entries and the pardoning of criminals in France, c. 1440-1560 -- Neil murphy -- Divine violence to uphold moral values : the casebook of an Emperor Guan temple in Hunan province in 1851-1852 / Barend J. ter Haar.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view