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| | HUP Reference Library: History and Current Affairs |
 | | This richly detailed yet concise encyclopedia is a guide to the full range of Japanese history and civilization, from the dawn of its prehistory to today, providing clear and accessible information on society and institutions, commerce and industry, sciences, sports, and politics, with particular emphasis on religion, material culture, and the arts. |
 | | Grenville has updated his history through 1999 and added new material on the demise of Yugoslavia, with its wars and ethnic cleansing; Clinton's policies in Haiti, Somalia, and Asia; his economic policy; Eastern Europe's new democracies; and the progress of Third World countries. |
 | | This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. |
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