| Simon Partner, Professor
Late 19th and 20th-century Japanese history Focusing on: growth of consumer markets; technology and social change; Japanese rural society
- Contact Info:
Office Location: | 303 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708 | Office Phone: | (919) 684-3014 | Email Address: | | Teaching (Spring 2024):
- HISTORY 159S.01, GTWY SEM: GRANDPARENTS
Synopsis
- Class Bldg 125, Tu 03:20 PM-05:50 PM
- (also cross-listed as DOCST 159S.01)
- HISTORY 703S.01, FOCUSING ON TCHNG & PEDAGOGY
Synopsis
- Class Bldg 125, Tu 10:05 AM-12:35 PM
- Education:
Ph.D. | Columbia University | 1997 |
M.Phil. | Columbia University | 1994 |
M.A. | Columbia University | 1993 |
M.A. | University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) | 1985 |
M.B.A. | University of Manchester (United Kingdom) | 1984 |
B.A. | University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) | 1980 |
- Specialties:
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Cultural History
African, Middle East and Asia
- Research Interests:
Late 19th and 20th-century Japanese history Focusing on: growth of consumer markets; technology and social change; Japanese rural society
- Curriculum Vitae
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Jackson, E; Partner, S, Bull City Survivor: Standing up to a Hard Life in a Southern City
(2013), MacFarland & Company, Inc. [author's comments]
- Partner, S, The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925
(May, 2009), University of California Press
- Partner, S, Toshie: A Story of Rural Life in Twentieth Century Japan
(2004), University of California Press [102-1008339-5256135] [abs]
- Partner, S, Assembled in Japan: Electrical goods and the making of the Japanese consumer
(April, 2023),
pp. 1-317, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 9780520219397 (292 pages.) [102-1008339-5256135] [abs]
- Partner, S, Peasants into citizens?: The Meiji village in the Russo-Japanese war,
Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 62 no. 2
(January, 2007),
pp. 179-209, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISSN 0027-0741 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Partner, S, Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Twentieth Century Japan,
Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 56 no. 4
(December, 2001)
- Partner, S, Brightening Country Lives: Selling Electrical Goods in the Japanese Countryside, 1950–1970,
Enterprise and Society, vol. 1 no. 4
(January, 2000),
pp. 762-784, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi] [abs]
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