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  • Japanese War Crimes during World War II

    Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence

    by Frank Jacob ...
    A challenging examination of Japanese war crimes during World War II offers a fresh perspective on the Pacific War-and a better understanding of reasons for the wartime use of extreme mass violence.The 1937 Rape of Nanjing has become a symbol of Japanese violence during the Second World War, but it was not the only event during which the Japanese used extreme force. This thought-provoking book ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Pornography

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Frank Jacob ...
    Pornography can tell us many things about a society, when it is seriously considered as a topic for scientific research. The present volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the subject and shows how pornography can be studied and what we can learn from such studies, e.g., about the construction of gender roles and their representation in pornographic media. Specialists from different ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Yearbook of Transnational History

    (2021)

    by Austin E. Loignon, Heike Bungert, Delphine Diaz, Adi Gordon, Frank Jacob, Erinn McComb, Friedemann Pestel, Dr Daniel Brückenhaus ...
    The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This fourth volume is focused to the theme of exile. Authors from across the historical discipline provide insights into central aspects of research into the phenomenon of exile in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Both centuries have seen large numbers of people ... Read more

    $94.79 USD

  • War and Semiotics

    Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence

    Edited by Frank Jacob ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the results of a war that are post-event defined as just or reasonable. The semiotic systems of wars are central to the discussion of the contributions within this volume, which highlight the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492

    More than Commodities

    Edited by Martina Kaller, Frank Jacob ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became important in the ‘Old World’, especially with regard to the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

    by Debbie Olson, Eduardo Barros-Grela, María Bobadilla Pérez, Tarah Brookfield, Glen Donnar, Aryak Guha, Mark Heimermann, James M. Hodapp, Frank Jacob, Cassandra L. Jones0, Eric D. Miller1, Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon2, Betül Atesçi Koçak3, Jennifer Brown4 ...
    The child in many post-apocalyptic films occupies a unique space within the narrative, a space that oscillates between death and destruction, faith and hope. The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe

    A Revision

    by Frank Jacob, Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book challenges the premise that a ‘military revolution’ prompted the major European powers to enter into an era of global hegemony during the early modern period, and suggests that this theory is not supported if we closely examine contemporary historical events. The conquests of Mexico and Peru, arguably the two most important colonial acquisitions by a European power during that era, were ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Looney Limericks

    Edited by Frank Jacobs ...
    Series series Dover Kids Activity Books
    Delightful collection of 60 limericks includes famous rhymes by such masters of the form as Gelett Burgess, Oliver Herford, and Edward Lear, as well as lesser-known works by these and other humorists, including the editor himself. Fun to read, easy to memorize and great to share with family and friends, each entertaining snippet of verse is accompanied by an equally humorous illustration. ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

    by Frank Jacob ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However, while appearing regional, the war itself in fact had a major global impact. The conflict and Japanese victory stimulated the Russian revolutionary movement in 1905 and hence the Russian Revolution of 1917. In addition, the Peace Treaty of Portsmouth created a tension ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Prostitution

    Eine Begleiterin der Menschheit / A Companion of Mankind

    Edited by Frank Jacob ...
    Prostitution ist scheinbar genauso alt wie die Menschheit selbst und gilt nicht von ungefähr als das «älteste Gewerbe» überhaupt. Dieser Band versteht sich als interdisziplinäre, chronologisch sowie global umfassende Analyse des Phänomens und bietet dem Fachpublikum und dem interessierten Leser gleichermaßen eine breite Darstellung der Prostitution aus historischer, soziologischer, ... Read more

    $138.79 USD

  • Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 1

    Asia, Africa, and the Middle East

    by Laurens Bakker, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo, Or Honig, Frank Jacob, Michael J. Pfeifer, Yogesh Raj, Nicholas Rush Smith ...
    Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • George Kennan on the Spanish-American War

    A Critical Edition of "Cuba and the Cubans"

    Edited by Frank Jacob ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents a critical edition of the lecture “Cuba and the Cubans” by George Kennan the Elder, with a wide-ranging introduction examining its influence on American public opinion of the Spanish-American War. A well-known journalist and travel writer, George Kennan went to Cuba in 1898 to report on the war and conditions on the island for American readers. After the war, he delivered his ... Read more

    $49.49 USD