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William De Lange
Japan over the last two and a half centuries has changed almost beyond recognition. This book explores the extent of that change by juxtaposing photographs from late 19th-century Japan to…
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Dutch author William de Lange treads in the footsteps of Dutch merchantmen who, during the Edo period, had to travel 1000 miles from Nagasaki to Edo (Tokyo) to pay their…
For more than two and a half centuries Dutch merchants in Japan were confined to the fan-shaped island of Dejima in the Bay of Nagasaki. Only once a year were…
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Navigates the Complicated History of the City as Both Site of Oppression and Space for Self-Determination
William A. Graham is an influential and pioneering scholar of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. This volume brings together seventeen contributions to the study of the Qur'an and Islam, all…
William Lang
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
History of Seneca County - from the close of the revolutionary war to July, 1880 - embracing many personal sketches of pioneers, anecdotes, and faithful descriptions of events pertaining to…
Seneca County is centrally located in northern Ohio, just south-west of Lake Erie. Although the Treaty of Paris formally ended the American Revolution, it threw the entirety of the Ohio…
William Lange
Set against the greater historical backdrop of ruthless political intrigue and seemingly insurmountable setbacks, the story is told of the tragedy of civil war experienced at the personal level.
The final volume of the swordsmen trilogy tells the story of the teo greatest warriors of the late-16th century, when war-ravaged Japan was brought under central control
Title: History of Seneca County, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Jerry Ray Holcomb is a big, mean redneck from Tung, Mississippi, who believes Satan has kept him from being killed or thrown in jail in his criminal endeavors. When Holcomb…
The young man seated on the bench reads his paper and chats with his wife about domestic matters and their daughter. As the conversation becomes more strained and personal, we…
Joseph William Lang
William L. Lang
The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. By the time of his death in 1876, Miller had amassed…
William Lang Paige Cox
The Scientific Study of Theology is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and…
William Bailey Lang
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Known from his collaboration on the Netflix documentary Age of Samurai, historian William de Lange takes the reader back to the fierce 16th century battles of Japan’s three great unifiers…
On 14 September 1862, the British trader Charles Lenox Richardson was murdered by a samurai at Namamugi on Japan’s ancient highroad. The Namamugi Incident has come to symbolize the clash…
Samurai Dishes is both a fascinating window into Japan's martial culinary tradition and a source of some really tasty recipes for which a samurai would have killed in an instant.
Known from his collaboration on the Netflix documentary Age of Samurai, historian William de Lange takes the reader back to the fierce 16th century Sieges of Japan's three great unifiers…
This is the first comprehensive dictionary of Japanese onomato-poeia. Multiple English sample sentences highlight every meaning and nuance of expressions used by Japanese speakers of all walks of life.
Walking Japan’s coastal route in search of beauty, William de Lange encounters a string of characters. Recording their stories, he braids a travelogue interwoven with his own experiences since he…
True stories of the two greatest sword heroes of the Two Courts Period (1333-92). This period was a turning point in Japan’s medieval era, a time when an unbridgeable rift…
True stories of the two greatest sword heroes of the Waring States Period (1469-1573). This was the most destructive period in Japan’s history. It was a time when thousands of…
True stories of the two greatest sword heroes of the Period of Unification (1573-1615). After two centuries of civil strife Japan finally found peace under three successive rulers: Oda Nobunaga…
William de Lange
This is the harrowing account of one of the most ill-fated expeditions in maritime history. Of five ships that sailed from Rotterdam at the turn of the 16th century, only…
This dictionary offers the most comprehensive compilation and English translation of those idiomatic expressions that so enrich the Japanese language but fail to find their way into conven -tional dictionaries.
The most destructive epoch in Japan’s long history of civil strife, the Warring States period began when the dearly won supremacy of the Ashikaga clan was squandered by a weak…
A full biography of Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi
A collection of hitherto neglected sources including the Tomari jinja munefuda, the Kaijo monogatari, the Numata kaki, the Yoshioka-den, the Watanabe koan taikiwa, the Honcho bugei shoden, the Koro usawa…
William Henry Lang
William Robert Lang
A Life in Arms reveals how events deeply buried in Musashi’s past set him on the hard path to success-a path that began with the brutal slaying of Arima Kihei…
This first illustrated Yagyu history in the English language recounts how, through a succession of misfortunes, the Yagyu clan first lost its independence, then its castle, and finally its lands…
Walking the Nakasendo, Japan’s ancient inland route, the author braids a travelogue deftly interwoven with his own experiences since he first set foot in Japan some thirty years ago. At…
This groundbreaking encyclopedia on Japanese castles references a total of 370 castles, giving unprecedented in-depth information on all Japan’s remaining original castles, 101 of its reconstructions, and 68 of its…
This work describes the Winter and Summer campaigns of the Siege of Osaka Castle. Presented in a wide, richly illustrated landscape format, it is a treasure trove of information on…
