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The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 1, ...

The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 1, ...

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84 Charles Schencking, 'The Imperial Japanese Navy and the Constructed Consciousness of a South Seas Destiny, 1872–1921', Modern Asian Studies 33: 4 (1999), 769–96. 85 Charles J. Schencking, 'Bureaucratic Politics, Military Budgets ...
Monumenta Nipponica: Studies on Japanese Culture, Past and ...

Monumenta Nipponica: Studies on Japanese Culture, Past and ...

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By J. Charles Schencking. Stanford University Press, 2005. 304 pages. Hardcover $55.00. Michael Lewis Michigan State University In this study of prewar Japanese naval power, J. Charles Schencking convincingly argues that military and ...
World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919-1930

World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919-1930

Frederick R. Dickinson

Charles Schencking highlights a “culture of catastrophe” surrounding the quake. See J. Charles Schencking, “The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Culture of Catastrophe and Reconstruction in 1920s Japan,” journal of japanese Studies, 34, ...
The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National ...

The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National ...

J. Charles Schenking

Using a rich array of source material, J. Charles Schencking tells for the first time the graphic tale of Tokyo's destruction and rebirth.
Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The ...

Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The ...

J. Schencking

POLITICS, PROPAGANDA, IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY ±868-1922 J. CHARLES SCHENCKING T his book explores the political emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1868 and 1922. It fundamentally challenges the popular ...
The Great War, 1914-1918

The Great War, 1914-1918

Ian Frederick William Beckett

... eds, Karl Kraus in neuer Sicht (Munich, 1986) J. Schencking, 'Bureaucratic Politics, Military Budgets and Japan's Southern Advance: The Imperial Navy's Seizure of German Micronesia in World War P, WH 5 (1998), 308-26 J. Schencking, ...
The Great War: 1914-1918

The Great War: 1914-1918

Ian F. W. Beckett

... 1986) J.Schencking, 'Bureaucratic Politics, Military Budgetsand Japan's Southern Advance: The Imperial Navy's Seizureof German Micronesia in World War I', WH 5 (1998), 308–26 J. Schencking, 'Bureaucratic Politics, Military Budgets and ...
Post-war Japan as a Sea Power: Imperial Legacy, Wartime ...

Post-war Japan as a Sea Power: Imperial Legacy, Wartime ...

Alessio Patalano

28 J. Schencking, Making Waves. Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 18681922, 107; Schencking, 'The Politics of Pragmatism and Pageantry: Selling a National Navy at the Elite and Local Level in Japan ...
Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps

Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps

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35 Mapping Death and Destruction in 1923 J. Charles Schencking Rebuilding Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake 36 André Sorensen. figure 35.1 “Map Indicating the Origin Points of Fires and their Spread” [Hakkachiten to karyu ̄ 発火 ...
A History of Civilization in 50 Disasters

A History of Civilization in 50 Disasters

Gale Eaton

Patricia J. Fanning, Influenza and Inequality: One Town's Tragic Response to the Great Pandemic of 1918 (Amherst: ... J. Charles Schencking, “The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Culture of Catastrophe and Reconstruction in 1920s Japan,”  ...
Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific: The Triumph of Neptune?

Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific: The Triumph of Neptune?

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Biographical details concerning these three characters can be found also in Charles J. Schencking, Making Waves. Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868–1922 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press ...
Natural Disasters in a Global Environment

Natural Disasters in a Global Environment

Anthony N. Penna

E J. Charles Schencking (2009), “1923 Tokyo as a devastated war and occupation zone: the catastrophe one confronted in post-earthquake Japan,” The Journal of Japanese Studies, 29(1), 111. E Andrew Robinson (1993), Earth Shock: ...
Fault Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy

Fault Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy

Giacomo Parrinello

Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella (Oxford and New York, 2005), 216. Charles J. Schencking, “Catastrophe, Opportunism, Contestation: The Fractured Politics of Reconstructing Tokyo Following the Great Kantô Earthquake of 1923 ...
A World Connecting

A World Connecting

Emily S. Rosenberg

Shelley Baranowski, Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 36–51. Kozo Yamamura, “Success Ill-Gotten?,” 113–135; J. Charles Schencking, Making Waves: ...
The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National ...

The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National ...

J. Charles Schencking

... Foundation–sponsored modern Japanese history workshops that she initiated, Sandra enabled me to meet others scholars of Japan including Stewart Lone, David Kelly, Matthew Stavros, Bea Trefault, Takeshi Moriyama, and Elise Tipton.
Power at Sea: The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918

Power at Sea: The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918

Lisle A. Rose

Thomas C. Smith, The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan, 205. 3. J. Charles Schencking, Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868–1922, 27–47; G. A. Ballard, The Influence of the Sea on ...
Empires and the Reach of the Global

Empires and the Reach of the Global

Tony Ballantyne

Kozo Yamamura, “Success Ill-Gotten?,” 113–135; J. Charles Schencking, Mak- ing Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868–1922 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005), 85–87, 107– 108 ...
Monumenta Nipponica

Monumenta Nipponica

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J. Charles Schencking 225 Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. By Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals. Edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Anno Tadashi 228 War Memory and Social Politics ...
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922

Phillips O'Brien

For an expanded discussion of this, see my monograph, J. Charles Schencking, Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868–1922, Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming. Marder ...
Asia Looks Seaward: Power and Maritime Strategy

Asia Looks Seaward: Power and Maritime Strategy

Toshi Yoshihara

Eric J. Grove, ''Introduction,'' in Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, ed. ... 138– 48; J. Charles Schencking, Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868– 1922 (Stanford: Stanford University ...
Maritime History and Identity: The Sea and Culture in the ...

Maritime History and Identity: The Sea and Culture in the ...

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21–37; Charles J. Schencking, 'Navalism, Naval Expansion and War: The Anglo- Japanese Alliance and the Japanese Navy', in Phillips Payson O'Brien, The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902–1922 (London, 2004), pp. 122–139. 15. 16. 17. 18.
Cases on Quality Teaching Practices in Higher Education

Cases on Quality Teaching Practices in Higher Education

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Salter, Diane J. Specifically, I'd like to acknowledge the following: Australia: Dr. Anne Abraham, Senior Lecturer, School of ... Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University; Dr. J. Charles Schencking, Senior Lecturer, ...
A Knight of the Nets

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...
Issues in Discovery, Experimental, and Laboratory Medicine: ...

Issues in Discovery, Experimental, and Laboratory Medicine: ...

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For additional information, contact J. Shannon, BC Women's Hospital, Dept. of Obstetric Anesthesia, Vancouver, Canada. ... Schencking. and. co-researchers. New research, 'Intravenous administration of vitamin C in the treatment of herpetic ...
Letters of the king of England

Letters of the king of England

Halliwell-Phillipps

Charles I. to Richard Browne 1643 343 Charles I. to prince Maurice . . , 1643 343 Charles I. to the mayor of Newbury 1643 344 Charles I. to the queen 1644 344 Charles I. to general Goring 1644 145 Charles I. to the earl of Newcastle . , 1644  ...
Narrative Inquiries of School Reform: Storied Lives, Storied ...

Narrative Inquiries of School Reform: Storied Lives, Storied ...

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Charles and I unpacked the root of the problem in the following exchange: Cheryl : Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: What do you think caused the problem with the [first story of reform—the state ...
The Boston Directory

The Boston Directory

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Hunt Charles. ship and freight broker, 156 State, bds. 65 Hancock Hunt Charles. h. Nep. av. near Chickatawbut, Nep. Hunt Charles A. boards 17 Green. Charlestown Hunt Charles А. machinist, house 54 (lates Hunt Charles E. clerk, 60 11igh,h ...
The roster of Union soldiers, 1861-1865

The roster of Union soldiers, 1861-1865

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D Blanchard, Charles 30th Inf. Co.G Blanchard, Charles 73rd Inf. Co.A Blanchard , Charles 77th Inf. Co.A Blanchard, Charles 89th Inf. Co.I Sgt. Blanchard, Chas. 92nd Inf. Co.D Blanchard, Charles 123rd Inf. Co.D Blanchard, Charles 153rd Inf.
John Charles Fremont: The Pathfinder

John Charles Fremont: The Pathfinder

Charles W. Maynard

His father, also named John Charles, was from France. Anne Beverley Whiting, John Charles's mother, was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Whiting of Richmond, Virginia. When John Charles was only five years old, his father died.
The genuine works of Charles Cotton

The genuine works of Charles Cotton

Charles Cotton

Charles Cotton. SCAR RONID ES; OR, Virgil Travestie. A MOCK-POEM In Imitation of the FOURTH BOOK O F FIRGIL's Æneis, In Englifo Burlesque, By CHARLES COTTON, Esq; The Fourteenth Edition. .f v. '-.-' a .a J V ' -'. .1.

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