This is a Japanese Woodblock print of the battle of Pungdo. It was created by Kobayashi Kiyochikain in 1894 during the Meiji Era of Japan. It can be found in The British Museum.

Bibliography:

“Chōsen Hōtō Kaisen No Zu 朝鮮豊島海戦之図 (The Naval Battle of Pungdo (C: Feng-tao), Korea).” British Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2015.

“MIT Visualizing Cultures.” MIT Visualizing Cultures. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2015.

“The Sino Japanese War Begins, Battle of Pung-do, Sinking of the Kowshing.” The Sino Japanese War Begins, Battle of Pung-do, Sinking of the Kowshing. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2015.

The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. Stanford

Peattie, Mark R., Edward J. Drea, and Van De Ven Hans J. The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2011. Print.

I found this book by searching “First Sino-Japanese War”. The reason I chose this particular book is because of the variety of sources it contains, as well as the amount of detail it conveys on the subject. Now, the book itself didn’t catch my eye. The book looks pretty bland, with just being a gray hardcover with no paperback attached. However, on the Library one search tool the book was far more ascetically pleasing. On the top, the cover has Chinese soldiers entrenched and arming against an impending attack, while on the bottom you see a column of Japanese soldiers marching and being lead by what appears to be at captain. Now the reason I believe this book is relevant to our class is because we have just recently discussed how Japan was a new rising empire in the late 19th century and we are currently about to be discussing the events that led to and what took place during World War II.  This books is an extremely detailed analysis of military, political, social history of the Sino-Japanese war. It examines the causes of the war as well as major campaigns, strategies, and outcomes that affected the war. This book does not have a specific argument, its purpose is to give a detailed account of the war, so detailed that it gives insight on the logistics of nearly every battle, i.e weapons, equipment, and the amount of men on each side. The book also includes maps, journals, and photographs from both sides of the fighting that I feel add the the incredible amount of insight it gives on the war.

From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1830

Hawthorne, Walter. From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. Print.

I found this book by searching “Slave trade in Africa”. I then narrowed the sources given to just books. I felt that this book relates to what we learned in class, because the book deals with the Portuguese sending Africans to work in Brazil. this book also deals with the same time period we were discussing in class, the 1600’s. What really caught my eye to this book was the cover. The cover depicts Africans laboring on what seems to be a plantation. As I skimmed through the table of contexts of the book, it seems the book gives a very in depth view of the slave trade from Africa to Brazil. It begins with discussing why enslavement happened and how they were transported and ends talking about the cultural changes this slave trade brought to Brazil. The book also includes maps, documents, and drawings to give a further sense of what the slave trade was like. The books that surrounded mine on the bookshelf had to deal with similar subjects. For example,  the two books next to it were called To Be a Slave in Brazil and Slave Rebellion in Brazil.