" Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the
most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetus for future global progress. Acting …

What are rising powers? Do they challenge the international order? Why do some countries
but not others become rising powers? In Why Nations Rise, Manjari Chaterjee Miller …

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 …

Introduction Page 1 Introduction 1. Paraphrase of the Pied Piper of Hamelin based on Jacob
and Wilhelm Grimm, “The Children of Hamelin,” trans. DS Ashliman, last modi ed in 2013, http …

By the twentieth century, Black intellectuals envisioned Japan as a beacon of their own
possibilities. Japanese perceptions of this bond are typically implicitly assumed in most …

In the history of international conflicts, the common cause that becomes the trigger is the
expansion of hegemony. One of the conflicts recorded due to the expansion of the …

Tuberculosis ran rampant in Japan during the late Meiji and Taisho years (1880s–1920s).
Many of the victims of the then incurable disease were young female workers from the rural …

Along these lines, John Frankenheimer's cult science-fiction film Seconds (1966), in which a
dissatisfied, affluent, middle-aged white man undergoes transformational plastic surgery to …

Актуальность темы исследования. Центры по изучению российской истории в США
возникли в первой половине XX в. Традиционно к ним относятся Колумбийский …

Abstract At the Lushun Russo-Japanese Prison (LRJP) Museum, I was drawn to a photo
display in which one old Japanese man is regretfully writing down his testimony (Fig. 31.1) …