History / Asia / Japan

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World Observation

World Observation

Empire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Itō Chūta
World Observation explores the archives and architecture of Itō Chūta (1867–1954), the eminent architectural thinker of the Japanese empire, who traveled across Asia, Europe, and North America to create the first world history of architecture in Japanese from a truly global set of encounters. In his mission to integrate Japan ...
Entangled Itineraries

Entangled Itineraries

Materials, Practices, and Knowledges across Eurasia
Edited By Pamela H. Smith
Trade flowed across Eurasia, around the Indian Ocean, and over the Mediterranean for millennia, but in the early modern period, larger parts of the globe became connected through these established trade routes. Knowledge, embodied in various people, materials, texts, objects, and practices, also moved and came together along these routes ...

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