Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
10 best books like Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Maya Jasanoff): Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, The Decay of the Angel, The Temple of Dawn, Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War, Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free, A History of Popular Culture in Japan: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present, The Culture of the Meiji Period
| Author | Fred Anderson |
| ISBN | 0375706364 |
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain’s...
This is the fourth and final volume in Mishima’s tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility.
Class divisions and changing values in Japan due to western influence are major themes. Another theme all the way through the series is reincarnation. In Decay of the Angel, the reincarnated spirit is an orphan....
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0099282798 |
Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend.
Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda,...
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
| Author | Roger Crowley |
| ISBN | 0812994000 |
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then...
| Author | Richard V. Reeves |
| ISBN | 1843546434 |
The definitive life of John Stuart Mill, one of the heroic giants of Victorian England
Richard Reeves' sparkling new biography can be read as an attempt to do justice to this eminent thinker, and it succeeds triumphantly. He reveals Mill as a man of action—a philosopher and radical MP...
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
| Author | Jack N. Rakove |
| ISBN | 0618267468 |
In this remarkable and elegantly written book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on America’s revolutionaries. In his hands, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and Hamilton were not pitchfork-wielding radicals or relentless power...
Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War
| Author | Richard M. Ketchum |
| ISBN | 0805061231 |
In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring...
Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free
| Author | John Ferling |
| ISBN | 1608190080 |
No event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain. John Adams, a leader of the revolutionary...
A History of Popular Culture in Japan: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
| Author | E Taylor Atkins |
| ISBN | 1474258549 |
The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it...
The Culture of the Meiji Period
| Author | Daikichi Irokawa |
| ISBN | 0691000301 |
This book offered a very different, almost counter cultural portrayal of the Meiji Restoration period of Japan. It did not focus on its aready well known 'heroes:' the former samurai, intellectuals, and other elite figures who led the country in its determined efforts to gain acceptance by the Western...
Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945
| Author | W.G. Beasley |
| ISBN | 0198221681 |
As I said in one of my comments, this is not an easy book -- it is academic and overly detailed, with lots of minutiae devoted to negotiations and treaties that were unsuccessful (without issue) or of transitory interest. That said, even these details are often instructive and one can skim some pages....
Since a kid I have been very fond of samurai stories and Japanesse culture. The Last Samurai and Memoirs of a Gheisa are two of my favorite films. So this book was very special for me being written by the descendant of the famous shogunate of Ieyasu.
The book is not a scholar historical study of the period,...
