Books written by Sven Saaler

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  Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History

  _____ (2001) The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. _____ (2005) The Lost Wolves of Japan, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

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  A New Modern History of East Asia

  For decades, historians and societal forces have campaigned for rapprochement, reconciliation and dialogue between East Asian nations. This book is a result of these efforts.

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  The Power of Memory in Modern Japan

  Due to their symbolic and iconographic meanings, expressions of ‘collective memory’ constitute the mental topography of a society and make a powerful contribution to its cultural, political and social identity.

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  Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan

  ... a copy until the 1920s or the 1930s.26 A detailed instruction booklet on the handling of the “holy portrait” was distributed to the recipients requiring that the go-shin'ei be stored in an altar-like wooden “shrine” (hoanden).

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  Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History

  The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History is a concise overview of modern Japanese history from the middle of the nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century.