A comprehensive bibliography of the French capital. Includes sections on geography, guidebooks, history, economy, literature and intellectual life, politics, the arts, architecture and urban planning, and mass media. The history, arts, and literature sections take up the bulk of the text. Most cited works were published after 1970. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Constantine Vaporis challenges the notion that an elaborate and restrictive system of travel regulations in Tokugawa Japan prevented widespread travel. Instead, he maintains that a "culture of movement" developed in that era.

Capital city status attracts and drives tourism by enhancing a city's appeal to the tourist and its international standing. With a focus on city tourism themes, this book examines subjects including the identity of a city in a tourism context and practical matters such as promoting the city as a product. By examining tourist activities in national capitals, the book addresses issues in capital city development as tourist destinations with a broad, international approach and case studies on major tourist cities.

Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664 by Daniel Weeks is the first comprehensive comparative study of the North American fur-trading colonies New France and New Netherland. Weeks traces the evolution of Quebec and New Amsterdam from hubs for trade with the Indians to gateways for European settlement.

An in-depth study of French policy in Japan and the bakufu during the bakamatsu period. Includes chapters on the mission of Baron Gros, Franco-Japanese commercial relations 1859-1863, the Ikeda mission, Leon Roches and the new French policy, anglo-french differences, the Yokosuka arsenal, military assistance, Roches and Tokugawa Keiki, and the Meiji Restoration and the failure of the Roches policy.

Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture, and the place of materiality in social theory, presenting current thinking about material culture from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies.