Tag: New Books in Military History

Akiko Takenaka, “Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)

Akiko Takenaka’s new book looks carefully at Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial, examining its role in waging war, honoring the dead, promoting peace, and building a modern…

Post date 24th August 2016
Post author By Carla Nappi
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Azar Gat, “War in Human Civilization” (Oxford UP, 2006)

New Books in Anthropology

Historians don’t generally like the idea of “human nature.” We tend to believe that people are intrinsically malleable, that they have no innate “drives,” “instinct… Visit New Books…

Post date 15th July 2010
Post author By Marshall Poe
Post categories In English