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| 1. |  | Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business  Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business | Sociology | Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Global community: the role of international organizations in the making of the contemporary world Author: Iriye, Akira Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | History | Global Studies Publisher's Description: The "global community" is a term we take for granted today. But how did the global community, both as an idea and as a reality, originate and develop over time? This book examines this concept by looking at the emergence, growth, and activities of international organizations--both governmental and n . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Acceptable risk?: making decisions in a toxic environment Author: Clarke, Lee Ben Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Environmental Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Organizations and modern technology give us much of what we value, but they have also given us Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Bhopal. The question at the heart of this paradox is "What is acceptable risk?" Based on his examination of the 1981 contamination of an office building in Binghamton, New . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Information and organizations Author: Stinchcombe, Arthur L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Economics and Business | Labor Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations. Stinchcombe contends that the "information problem" and the concept of "uncertainty" provide the key to understanding how organizations function. In a de . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Bureaucracy, politics, and decision making in post-Mao China Author: Lieberthal, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | China Publisher's Description: Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering amo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Making health work: human growth in modern Japan Author: Mosk, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology | Demography | Japan | Asian History | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in Japan. Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Assembled in Japan: electrical goods and the making of the Japanese consumer Author: Partner, Simon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Japan | Media Studies | Technology and Society | Consumerism Publisher's Description: Assembled in Japan investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. Contrary to mainstream interpretation, Simon Partner discovers that behind the meteoric rise of Sony, Matsushita, Toshiba, and other electrical goods companies wa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920 Author: Wigen, Kären 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Geography | Asian History | Japan Publisher's Description: Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a gateway to the mountainous interior of central Ja . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Refuge of the honored: social organization in a Japanese retirement community Author: Kinoshita, Yasuhito 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Japan Publisher's Description: Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders. This timely study documents the birth of a major social phenomenon in Japan - the planned retirement community.In the mid-1980s, Yasuhi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The state and labor in modern Japan Author: Garon, Sheldon Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | Asian History | Politics | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Early modern Japan Author: Totman, Conrad D Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | Japan Publisher's Description: This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also introduces a new ecological perspective, covering na . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Splendid monarchy: power and pageantry in modern Japan Author: Fujitani, Takashi Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | Japan Publisher's Description: Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultur . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Perfectly Japanese: making families in an era of upheaval Author: White, Merry I 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Social Science | Japan | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History | Gender Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the past hundred years - the Meiji era and postwar period - to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Mirror of modernity: invented traditions of modern Japan Author: Vlastos, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian History Publisher's Description: This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition , sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age- . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Mapping early modern Japan: space, place, and culture in the Tokugawa period, 1603-1868 Author: Yonemoto, Marcia 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Geography | Japan Publisher's Description: This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes - including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias - to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Takarazuka: sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Japan | Cultural Anthropology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Women's Studies | Theatre | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history. In this s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture Author: Hanley, Susan B 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. H . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Japan's administrative elite Author: Koh, Byung Chol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: A major player in Japanese society is its government bureaucracy. Neither Japan's phenomenal track record in the world marketplace nor its remarkable success in managing its domestic affairs can be understood without insight into how its government bureaucracy works - how its elite administrators ar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Native and newcomer: making and remaking a Japanese city Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Japan | Asian History | Urban Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community. Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 Author: Smith, Thomas C. (Thomas Carlyle) 1916- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Asian History Publisher's Description: Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays a . . . [more] Similar Items |