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Amy Stanley is a professor in the History Department at Northwestern University. She can often be found lecturing about global history, but she is most at home in early modern Japan, specifically in the great city of Edo (now Tokyo). Like many social historians, she is happiest when reading other people's correspondence and perusing shopping lists from 200 years ago. She knows a lot about samurai, and she can tell you all about the condition of the toilets in Edo Castle, but you probably don't want to know. When she's not dwelling in the nineteenth century, she is in Evanston, IL, with her husband, two little boys, and a mutt who may actually be a Catahoula Leopard Dog. ...more

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	Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World 3.77 avg rating — 2,396 ratings — published 2020 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes) (Volume 21) by Amy Stanley (Goodreads Author), Amy Stanley (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living with Aim Coloring Book of Truth 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fasting & Food Freedom Log Book: 120 Pages Great For Tracking Your Fasting Hours, Food Log, Weight, Body Measurements, Struggles and Non Scale Victories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forastera en la ciudad del sogún: Una mujer japonesa y su mundo by Amy Stanley (Goodreads Author), José Manuel Cuesta Abad (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forastera en la ciudad del sogún: Una mujer japonesa y su mundo (Libros Singulares (LS)) by Amy Stanley (Goodreads Author), Manuel de la Fuente Soler (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“She was angry about so many things, but she aimed her rage at people, not at abstract ideas.”
― Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

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“the guard posted there saw a fire, he would bang a great drum or ring a bell, picking up the pace as the flames drew nearer.”
― Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

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“Maybe everyone in Edo was maintaining an illusion of sanity with clothes and hairpins. Or maybe they all started out as virtuous people but were transformed into monsters when they learned—over and over again—that they could never hold on to what they thought was theirs.”
― Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

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