No I don't need to buy another book that's not immediately relevant to the book that I'm supposed to be writing NOW, but....sometimes the book cover just draws you in and...
There are over 380 issues of the Japanese journal 婦人衞生雜誌, 1888-1926 on Internet Archive to read or download. This is a key source in the study of the rise of modern concept of hygiene in Japan and a turn to a focus on women's bodies in public health. archive.org/search?query...
In a week!
Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore) on her new book “A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan”, in conversation with Yumi Kim (University of California Berkeley) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia).
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6602790
Good explainer from @leedrutman.bsky.social on why "ban gerrymandering" within the context of single-member districts is deceptively oversimplified. There is no such thing as any one objectively right measure of non-gerrymandered fairness, and they all have predictable partisan biases.
Wow, @universitypress.cambridge.org keeps putting out bangers on early modern Japan!
Can’t wait for Laura Nenzi’s Japan After Dark, which challenges the idea that 19th-c. electrification disenchanted night
www.cambridge.org/core/books/j...
#envhum #envhist #histstm #AsianStudies
This is exactly it. The work is the point.
Hey #Slystorians and #Alaskasky! Now is a great time to order my book “Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II” for 40% off plus free domestic shipping if you order through the UW Press website with the discount code: WARM26
Woohoo!
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