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Isami's house : three centuries of a Japanese family /
In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations; prologue: history revealed; acknowledgments; notes on conventions; time line; matsuura genealogy; List of Central Persons; Introduction: An Agrarian Childhood; 1 / The House Isami Built; 2 / Kissing Cousins; 3 / Father of the Village; 4 / Strong Wives; 5 / Urban Studies; 6 / The Marriage Pipeline; 7 / Frugality and Fancy Schemes; 8 / Outposts of Modernity; 9 / Isami's Children in Harm's Way; 10 / Hard Times on the Home Front; 11 / Surviving Hiroshima; 12 / Missed Fortunes; 14 / Absent Husband; 15 / Couples and Uncouplings; 16 / Mothering; Epilogue: Kin Work.