Historical contexts -- Causes of the famine -- Effects on mortality, fertility, and health in later life -- Central government and food administration -- The politics and practices of Allied relief -- Coping at household and individual levels -- Community strategies -- The evacu…
"Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original an…
This is a multi-author work which examines the cultural dimensions of the relations between East Asia's two great powers, China and Japan, in a period of change and turmoil, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. This period saw Japanese invasion of…
A rare picture by a Polish physician whose diary depicted how noncombatants coped with life in German-occupied eastern Poland.
For many years, the history of Byelorussia under Nazi occupation was written primarily from the perspective of the resistance movement. This movement, a reaction to the brutal occupation policies, was very strong indeed. Still, as the author shows, there existed in Byelorussia a…