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Hall (formerly of the United States Information Service and now a professor of Japanese history at Temple U. of Japan) critiques current American political and economic thinking about Japan, suggesting that the country is both economically stronger and less inclined to follow American political and economic wishes than is commonly perceived. He suggests that this situation is the result of American "insouciant, inattentive hubris" and purposeful Japanese...
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Warren I. Cohen examines how cultural influences have transformed--and benefited--both Asians and Americans. Cohen reviews the role of the United States in East Asia over the past century, making a convincing case for American influence in Asia as generally positive. He illustrates specific ways in which American culture has affected Asians, from forms of government to entertainment, and offers valuable insights into the nature of cultural exchange....
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"In this book Franco Cardini examines the ideas, prejudices, disinformation and anti-information that have formed and coloured Europe's attitude towards Islam. Encompassing 2500 years of ideological interchange and armed conflict, he retells the mutual histories of East and West and examines how and why misunderstanding has occurred." "The author focuses primarily on the Islam of the Mediterranean (Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa) with which...
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"Moving beyond recent debates between Afrocentrists and their critics over the racial characteristics of Egyptian civilization, From Slave to Pharaoh reveals the true complexity of race, identity, and power in Egypt as documented through surviving texts and artifacts, while at the same time providing a account of war, conquest, and culture in the ancient world."--Jacket
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"Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired by that encounter, helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive. Vitkus's research shows how plays about the multicultural Mediterranean participated in this process of identity formation, and how anxieties...
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