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Publications of Simon Partner    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Partner, S, Koume's World (2024), pp. 1-289, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  2. Partner, S, Koume’s World The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration (December, 2023), pp. 203 pages, Columbia University Press, ISBN 9780231559102
  3. 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]
  4. Partner, S, Merchant's Tale (2018), pp. 1-291, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  5. Partner, S, The Merchant's Tale Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan (December, 2017), Columbia University Press, ISBN 9780231544467  [abs]
  6. Jackson, E; Partner, S, Bull City Survivor: Standing up to a Hard Life in a Southern City (2013), MacFarland & Company, Inc.  [author's comments]
  7. Partner, S, The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925 (May, 2009), University of California Press
  8. Partner, S, Toshie: A Story of Rural Life in Twentieth Century Japan (2004), University of California Press [102-1008339-5256135]  [abs]
  9. Partner, S, Saying Yes to Japanese Investment (1992), Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall [002-5809036-3448000]
  10. Partner, S, Mergers and Acquisitions Manual (1991), Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall [002-5809036-3448000]

Papers Published

  1. Partner, S, Art and Gender in an Age of Revolution, Japan Review, vol. 2021 no. 36 (January, 2021), pp. 61-87 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Partner, S, Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945, JOURNAL OF JAPANESE STUDIES, vol. 46 no. 1 (December, 2020), pp. 195-199, SOC JAPANESE STUD
  3. Partner, S, DOWN AND OUT IN LATE MEIJI JAPAN, PACIFIC AFFAIRS, vol. 93 no. 4 (2020), pp. 818-820
  4. Partner, S, Making Medicine a Business: X-ray Technology, Global Competition, and the Transformation of the Japanese Medical System, 1895–1945. By Pierre-Yves Donzé. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xiv + 199 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth. $139.99. ISBN: 978-981-10-8158-3., Business History Review, vol. 93 no. 02 (2019), pp. 421-423, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
  5. Partner, S, Japan’s global peace moment, Japan Forum, vol. 30 no. 4 (October, 2018), pp. 543-563, Informa UK Limited [doi]  [abs]
  6. Partner, S, Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945 by Samuel Hideo Yamashita, The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 43 no. 1 (2017), pp. 189-193, Project MUSE [doi]
  7. Partner, S, Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry by Jeffrey W. Alexander (review), The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 41 no. 2 (June, 2015), pp. 392-397, Project MUSE [doi]
  8. Partner, S, Review of Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan by Andrew Gordon, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 73 no. 1 (June, 2013), pp. 211-215, Project MUSE [doi]
  9. Partner, S, Review of Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War by Penelope Francks, The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 34 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 106-109 [doi]
  10. Partner, S, Review of Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan by David Ambaras, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 62 no. 3 (January, 2007), pp. 372-374 [doi]
  11. 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]
  12. Partner, S, Review of Isami's house: Three centuries of a Japanese family by Gail Bernstein, JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, vol. 38 no. 2 (2007), pp. 339-340, ISSN 0022-1953 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  13. Partner, S, Review of Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village by Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 60 (December, 2005)
  14. Partner, S, Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village: Farm Tenancy Conciliation, 1924-1938 (review), Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 60 no. 4 (December, 2005), pp. 533-535, Project MUSE [doi]
  15. Partner, S, Review of Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda, MONUMENTA NIPPONICA, vol. 59 no. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 143-145, ISSN 0027-0741 [Gateway.cgi]
  16. Partner, S, Review of A Time of Crisis by Kerry Smith, Agricultural History, vol. 76 no. 4 (Fall, 2002), pp. 713-715, UNIV CALIF PRESS
  17. Partner, S, Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Twentieth Century Japan, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 56 no. 4 (December, 2001)
  18. Partner, S, Taming the wilderness: the lifestyle improvement movement in rural Japan, 1925-1965., Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 56 no. 4 (January, 2001), pp. 487-520 [doi]
  19. 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]
  20. Partner, S, Review of Culture and Technology in Modern Japan: Ian Inkster and Kumihiko Satofuka, eds., edited by Inkster, I; Satofuka, F, Waseda Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 22 (2000)
  21. Partner, S, Embracing defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II, MONUMENTA NIPPONICA, vol. 55 no. 1 (2000), pp. 128-129, JSTOR, ISSN 0027-0741 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  22. Partner, S, Review of Japan’s Postwar Economy: Erich Pauer, ed., Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 54 (September, 1999)
  23. Partner, S, Review of Sengo Nihon no Nögyöshi [A Postwar History of Japanese Agriculture] by Ino Ryüichi, Social Science Japan Journal, vol. 6 (1999)
  24. Partner, S; Pauer, E, Japan's War Economy, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 54 no. 3 (1999), pp. 403-403, JSTOR [doi]
  25. Partner, S, Manufacturing Desire: The “Electrical Lifestyle” and the Nurturing of the Japanese Consumer, Social Science Japan, vol. 12 (March, 1998) (Special Issue on the 1950s.)

Book Chapters

  1. Partner, S, THE ARTIST'S LIFE, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 164-188, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  2. Partner, S, IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLACK SHIPS, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 62-93, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  3. Partner, S, A YEAR OF CALAMITIES, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 41-61, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  4. Partner, S, KOUME'S WORLD THE LIFE AND WORK OF A SAMURAI WOMAN BEFORE AND AFTER THE MEIJI RESTORATION CONCLUSION, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 227-252, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  5. Partner, S, WAR AND REVOLUTION, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 124-163, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  6. Partner, S, KOUME'S WORLD THE LIFE AND WORK OF A SAMURAI WOMAN BEFORE AND AFTER THE MEIJI RESTORATION PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. VII-+, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  7. Partner, S, GROWING UP IN KISHU DOMAIN, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 12-40, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  8. Partner, S, ACROSS THE DIVIDE, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 189-226, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  9. Partner, S, WORK AND FAMILY, in KOUME'S WORLD (2024), pp. 94-123, ISBN 978-0-231-21185-7
  10. Partner, S, Small Town, Big Dreams A Yokohama Merchant and the Transformation of Japan, in MEIJI RESTORATION (2020), pp. 62-82
  11. Partner, S, OUT OF THIN AIR (1859-1860), in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. 1-40, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  12. Partner, S, YEARS OF STRUGGLE (1860-1864), in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. 41-90, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  13. Partner, S, PROSPERITY (1864-1866), in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. 91-141, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  14. Partner, S, TRANSFORMATION (1866-1873), in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. 143-206, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  15. Partner, S, THE MERCHANT'S TALE INTRODUCTION, in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. XVII-+, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  16. Partner, S, THE POWER OF A PLACE CONCLUSION, in MERCHANT'S TALE (2018), pp. 207-225, ISBN 978-0-231-18293-5
  17. Partner, S, Daily Life of Civilians in Wartime Japan, 1937-45, in The Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Asia, edited by Lone, S (2007), Greenwood Press

Book Reviews

  1. Penelope Francks, Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the nineteenth century to the Pacific War, Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 34 no. 1 (Winter, 2008)
  2. Gail Bernstein, Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 38 no. 2 (2007)
  3. David Ambaras, Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 62 no. 3 (2007)
  4. Ian Inkster and Kumihiko Satofuka, eds., Culture and Technology in Modern Japan, edited by Ian Inkster and Fumihiko Satofuka, Waseda Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 22 (2000)
  5. Ino Ryüichi, Sengo Nihon no Nögyöshi [A Postwar History of Japanese Agriculture], Social Science Japan Journal, vol. 6 (Fall, 1999)
  6. Erich Pauer, ed., Japan’s Postwar Economy, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 54 no. 3 (September, 1999)

Other

  1. Daily Life of Civilians in Wartime Japan, 1937-45 (2007), Greenwood Press