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In search of our frontier
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ISBN: 9780520973077 9780520304383 0520304381 0520973070 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oakland, California

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In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan's colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and capital in the Asia-Pacific basin before World War II. The trajectories of Japanese transpacific migrants exemplified a prevalent national structure of thought and practice that not only functioned to shore up the backbone of Japan's empire building but also promoted the borderless quest for Japanese overseas development. Eiichiro Azuma offers new interpretive perspectives that will allow readers to understand Japanese settler colonialism's capacity to operate outside the aegis of the home empire.


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Sanitized Sex : Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
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ISBN: 0520968697 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Sanitized Sex analyzes the development of new forms of regulation concerning prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy during the American occupation of Japan after the Second World War, focusing on the period between 1945 and 1952. It contributes to the cultural and social history of the occupation of Japan by investigating the intersections of ordering principles like race, class, gender, and sexuality. It also reveals how sex and its regulation were not marginal but key issues in postwar empire-building, U.S.-Japanese relations, and American and Japanese self-imagery. The regulation of sexual encounters between occupiers and occupied was closely linked to the disintegration of the Japanese empire and the rise of U.S. hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region during the Cold War era. Shedding new light on the configuration of postwar Japan, the process of decolonization, the postcolonial formation of the Asia-Pacific region, and the particularities of postwar U.S. imperialism, Sanitized Sex offers a reading of the intimacies of empires-defeated and victorious.


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War in Social Thought
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ISBN: 1283683547 1400844746 9781400844746 9781283683548 9780691150840 0691150842 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the development of thinking about war over more than 350 years--from the premodern era to the period of German idealism and the Scottish and French enlightenments, and then from the birth of sociology in the nineteenth century through the twentieth century. While focusing on social thought, the book draws on many disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, and political science. Joas and Knöbl demonstrate the profound difficulties most social thinkers--including liberals, socialists, and those intellectuals who could be regarded as the first sociologists--had in coming to terms with the phenomenon of war, the most obvious form of large-scale social violence. With only a few exceptions, these thinkers, who believed deeply in social progress, were unable to account for war because they regarded it as marginal or archaic, and on the verge of disappearing. This overly optimistic picture of the modern world persisted in social theory even in the twentieth century, as most sociologists and social theorists either ignored war and violence in their theoretical work or tried to explain it away. The failure of the social sciences and especially sociology to understand war, Joas and Knöbl argue, must be seen as one of the greatest weaknesses of disciplines that claim to give a convincing diagnosis of our times.


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Architecture in Global Socialism : Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
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ISBN: 0691194556 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world. Architecture in Global Socialism shows how their collaboration reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City.Łukasz Stanek describes how local authorities and professionals in these cities drew on Soviet prefabrication systems, Hungarian and Polish planning methods, Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern Europe. He explores how the socialist development path was adapted to tropical conditions in Ghana in the 1960s, and how Eastern European architectural traditions were given new life in 1970s Nigeria. He looks at how the differences between socialist foreign trade and the emerging global construction market were exploited in the Middle East in the closing decades of the Cold War. Stanek demonstrates how these and other practices of global cooperation by socialist countries-what he calls socialist worldmaking-left their enduring mark on urban landscapes in the postcolonial world.Featuring an extensive collection of previously unpublished images, Architecture in Global Socialism draws on original archival research on four continents and a wealth of in-depth interviews. This incisive book presents a new understanding of global urbanization and its architecture through the lens of socialist internationalism, challenging long-held notions about modernization and development in the Global South.

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Architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- Socialist realism and architecture. --- Abu Dhabi. --- Accra. --- Aga Khan Award for Architecture. --- Architectural Design. --- Architectural Forum. --- Architectural drawing. --- Architectural historian. --- Architectural technology. --- Architecture. --- Building code. --- Building design. --- Building material. --- Building science. --- Building. --- Calabar. --- Capitalism. --- Central Asia. --- City-state. --- Civil engineer. --- Civil engineering. --- Colonialism. --- Comecon. --- Construction management. --- Construction. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Decolonization. --- Designer. --- Developed country. --- Development corporations. --- Development plan. --- East Germany. --- Eastern Europe. --- Economic development. --- Economic integration. --- Economic planning. --- Economy of the Soviet Union. --- Empire-building. --- Engineering. --- Globalization. --- Hotel design. --- Housing Corporation. --- Howard University. --- Imperialism. --- Industrial architecture. --- Industrial policy. --- Industrialisation. --- Infrastructure. --- Interior design. --- International Style (architecture). --- Internationalization. --- Islamic architecture. --- Joint venture. --- Kuwait. --- Labour law. --- Market socialism. --- Marshall Plan. --- Ministry of Works (United Kingdom). --- Modern architecture. --- Modernization theory. --- Nation-building. --- Nationalization. --- New International Economic Order. --- Political economy. --- Postmodern architecture. --- Prefabrication. --- Project architect. --- Project management office. --- Public housing. --- Requirement. --- Royal Institute of British Architects. --- Saddam Hussein. --- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. --- Socialist economics. --- Socialist realism. --- Socialist state. --- Soviet Union. --- State-building. --- Technology. --- Technoscience. --- The Architects' Collaborative. --- Trade fair. --- Trade regulation. --- Type design. --- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. --- Urban history. --- Urban morphology. --- Urban planner. --- Urban planning. --- Urban renewal. --- Urbanism. --- Urbanization. --- Venice Biennale of Architecture. --- Vernacular architecture. --- West Africa. --- West Germany. --- Work permit (United Kingdom). --- World War II. --- World economy. --- World history. --- Yugoslavia.

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