A Social History of Literacy in Japan

A Social History of Literacy in JapanDespite the great interest in and the availability of enormous literature about education in Japan, this book is a translation of the first work written in Japanese on the history of literacy in Japan. The authors are each accomplished scholars of Japanese educational history, and each provides solid empirical evidence and original analyses of literacy in their own particular specialty, from Heian aristocrats, to religious sects in the medieval

textbook analysis explores how mass media systems across Europe have been shaped by technology

had a long pre-history as a place of encounter and interchange from the early Anglo-Saxon period

The first ever book on Mumbai written in the Marathi language

articulate and express public opinion by means of reflexive publicity within an established democratic public culture

for many the seventeenth-century’s civil wars opened onto a resolutely indeterminate future

The essays in this collection address Nashe’s use of the past

identity and immigration as well as a set of policy proposals for institutional reform

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critical responses and censorship records to ask how the small city of Malmö's embrace of the era's sexual liberation was both representative and unique in relation to the rest of Sweden

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It is based on a study of 25 young rural Thai men who were each interviewed three times within a two-year period while they were aged 18–20