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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mahon murphy”
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  • S.O.B.’s Don’t Be Swindle

    by Dr. or Professor Mahon Murphy, Professor Ran Zwigenberg ...
    Series series 33 1/3 Japan
    This book chronicles the Kyoto/Kansai 1980s hardcore punk scene through the album Don't Be Swindle by S.O.B., with a focus on Kyoto's main venues and the networks they created.Apart from being the center of Japan's cultural heritage, Kyoto is home to one of Japan's leading avant-garde art and music scenes. The Kyoto University-affiliated venue Seibu Kodo has historically been the focus of this ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Colonial Captivity during the First World War

    Internment and the Fall of the German Empire, 1914–1919

    by Mahon Murphy ...
    Series Book 52 - Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    With the outbreak of war in 1914, an estimated 30,000 German civilians in African and Asian colonies were violently uprooted and imprisoned. Britain's First World War internment of German settlers seriously challenged the structures that underpinned nineteenth-century imperialism. Through its analysis of this internment, this book highlights the impact that the First World War had on the notion of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The East Asian Dimension of the First World War

    Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914-1919

    by Eugene Chiu, Gerhard Krebs, Yuji Kubota, Akira Kudo, Sepp Linhart, Eiichi Morohashi, Mahon Murphy, Sochi Naraoka, Sawako Ogawa, Yasuteru Ono, Atsushi Otsuru, Yuichiro Shimizu, Jun Suzuki, Lin-chun Wu, Shin'ichi Yamamuro, Yan Zhang ...
    Series series
    Which role did East Asia play in the First World War? How did East Asian commentators see and interpret the total(izing) war in Europe and elsewhere? Which lessons did they draw from this experience for their own societies? How did economic networks shift? Which influence did the war have on East Asian visions of world order? This volume aims to introduce new scholarship, in many cases by hitherto ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Forgotten Ally

    China's World War II, 1937–1945

    by Rana Mitter ...
    A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: "Superb" ( The New York Times Book Review).In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War II. Joining with the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, China became the fourth great ally in ... Read more

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  • Citizens of Hope and Glory: A Story of Progressive Rock

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    by Stephen Lambe ...
    Created in the late 1960s, fashionable in the early 1970s and hated in the 1980s Progressive Rock has a colourful and eventful story. Many of the genres main protagonists, including Genesis, Yes, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, remain as popular as ever, while lesser-known names like Camel, Caravan, Renaissance, Van der Graaf Generator and Gentle Giant retain cult status.Prog expert ... Read more

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  • The War of the World

    Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

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    From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower"Even those who have read widely in 20th-century history will find fresh, surprising details." —The Boston Globe"A fascinating read, thanks to Ferguson's gifts as a writer of clear, energetic narrative history." —The Washington PostAstonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Nia... ... Read more

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  • The Passenger: Japan

    by The Passenger, Richard Lloyd Parry, Yoshimoto Banana, Ian Buruma ...
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    Explore Japanese society in the lively series that collects the best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from around the world.Visitors from the West look with amazement, and sometimes concern, at Japan's social structures and unique, complex culture industry; the gigantic scale of its tech corporations and the resilience of its traditions; the extraordinary diversity of the subcultures ... Read more

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  • The Pity of War

    Explaining World War I

    by Niall Ferguson ...
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  • The Pacific War, 1931-1945

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  • Energy Flash

    A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

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    Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s.England, Germany, and Holland began tinkering with imported Detroit techno and Chicago house music in the late 1980s, and ... Read more

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