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  • Koume’s World

    The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration

    by Simon Partner ...
    Winner, 2026 Modern Japan History Association Book PrizeKawai Koume (1804–1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in the provincial castle town of Wakayama. She was an eyewitness to many of the key events leading up to the Meiji Restoration and the radical changes that followed, including the famine of 1837, the great ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Koume’s World

    The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration

    by Simon Partner ...
    Winner, 2026 Modern Japan History Association Book PrizeKawai Koume (1804–1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in the provincial castle town of Wakayama. She was an eyewitness to many of the key events leading up to the Meiji Restoration and the radical changes that followed, including the famine of 1837, the great ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Bull City Survivor

    Standing Up to a Hard Life in a Southern City

    by Simon Partner, Emma Johnston ...
    Emma Johnston (a pseudonym) is an African American resident of Durham, North Carolina, whose son was brutally murdered in 2007. Combining the voices of Emma and her coauthor Simon Partner, a professor at Duke University, the book recounts the postwar history of one of the South's fastest-growing communities through the eyes of one of its most disadvantaged residents. In the process, the book ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • The Merchant's Tale

    Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan

    by Simon Partner ...
    Series series Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
    In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan’s 1853 “opening” to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Merchant's Tale

    Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan

    by Simon Partner ...
    Series series Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
    In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan’s 1853 “opening” to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD