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Roundtable On Kurdish Conflict Management Strategies, Jesse Benjamin, Kani Xulam, Haluk Bingol Mar 2012

Roundtable On Kurdish Conflict Management Strategies, Jesse Benjamin, Kani Xulam, Haluk Bingol

Jesse Benjamin

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Immigrant Labor And Political Capital: Unionization As A Mechanism Of Well-Being Enhancement, Sergio Romero Mar 2012

Immigrant Labor And Political Capital: Unionization As A Mechanism Of Well-Being Enhancement, Sergio Romero

Sergio Romero

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Agricultural Modernization In China And Its Impact On Cities, Qian Forrest Zhang Feb 2012

Agricultural Modernization In China And Its Impact On Cities, Qian Forrest Zhang

Qian Forrest ZHANG

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Some Observations On The Weddings Of Tokugawa Shogun’S Daughters – Part 1, Cecilia S. Seigle Ph.D. Dec 2011

Some Observations On The Weddings Of Tokugawa Shogun’S Daughters – Part 1, Cecilia S. Seigle Ph.D.

Cecilia S Seigle Ph.D.

In this study I shall discuss the marriage politics of Japan's early ruling families (mainly from the 6th to the 12th centuries) and the adaptation of these practices to new circumstances by the leaders of the following centuries. Marriage politics culminated with the founder of the Edo bakufu, the first shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616). To show how practices continued to change, I shall discuss the weddings given by the fifth shogun Tsunayoshi (1646-1709) and the eighth shogun Yoshimune (1684-1751). The marriages of Tsunayoshi's natural and adopted daughters reveal his motivations for the adoptions and for his choice of the daughters’ …