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  • Sir Rutherford Alcock
    Robert Morton
    Rutherford Alcock became a battlefield surgeon, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars in the 1830s. This book fills a major gap in the study of Japan’s opening to the West from a British perspective, as well as Britain’s relationship with East Asia as a whole, through the eyes of a brilliant, but complicated and contradictory figure. ...
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    82,40 €

  • A Life of Sir Harry Parkes
    Robert Morton
    Harry Parkes was at the heart of Britain’s relations with the Far East from fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven. In his day, he was seen as both a hero and a monster and is still bitterly resented in China for his part in the country’s humiliations at Western hands, but largely esteemed in Japan for helping it to industrialise. ...
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    85,05 €

  • A.B. Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State
    Robert Morton
    An accomplished linguist and writer, A.B. Mitford was the outstanding chronicler of the Meiji Restoration, complementing the writings of his contemporary Ernest Satow. This book will be of particular interest to students and readers of Japanese history, as well as readers of nineteenth-century biography in general. ...
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    84,81 €

  • Seeds of Retribution
    Robert B.W Morton
    The Harpe Brothers, the Bender Family, Belle Gunness, Jolly Jane. That’s just to name a few of the known serial killers in America 18-19th centuries. To think how they got away with it for so long is questionable. Sometimes the evidence was there, other times they were just too good at what they did. Constructing an accurate psychological profile of a serial killer is a relativ...
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    20,99 €

  • Serial Killers Big Book
    National Center for the Analysis / of Violent Crime / Robert J. Morton / Robert JMorton
    There is little more terrifying than those who hunt, stalk and snatch their prey under the cloak of darkness. These hunters search not for animals, but for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. They are cannibals, vampires and monsters, and they walk among us. These serial killers are not mythical beasts with horns and shaggy hair. They are people living among socie...
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    11,80 €

  • The Contemporary Soviet City
    Henry W. Morton / Robert C. Stuart
    This anthology of short stories reflects the writers’ shared core experience of Korea’s trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society ...
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    77,18 €