Monthly Archives: December 2011

See you in 2012!

With the winter holidays upon us, Dissertation Reviews will be taking a few-week hiatus and will return in January 2012 with the first of dozens…

Hangzhou Municipal Archives

A review of the Hangzhou Municipal Archives (杭州市档案馆), Hangzhou, China. In April 2011, I spent several days working at the Hangzhou Municipal Archives as part…

World History & Imperial Japan

A review of The Standpoint of World History and Imperial Japan, by TAKESHI KIMOTO. “This dissertation,” Takeshi Kimoto writes at the outset of his work,…