Japanese summary of her lecture titled "Interpreting the Geography of the United States".

SHIPMAN, Julia M.

Published by Tokyo: [c.1937]

About this Item

First edition in Japanese, first printing, of this pamphlet summarizing the author's address at the Seventh Biennial Conference of the World Federation of Education Associations held in Tokyo from 1-8 August 1937. Tokyo hosted 900 delegates from around the world, with the author and other educators speaking to subject-specific audiences in between keynote addresses. The conference aimed to strengthen international co-operation but also witnessed sparring over Japan's actions in China. Dr Julia M. Shipman was an American geographer who taught at Mount Holyoke College in the 1930s. Octavo, pp. [7]. Portrait of author in text. Text in Japanese. Original grey wrappers, gatherings glued into wrappers as issued, front cover lettered in black. Light creasing and fore-edge nicks to wrappers and contents: a near-fine copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Japanese summary of her lecture titled "Interpreting the Geography of the United States".
• Publisher: Tokyo: [c.1937]
• Edition: 1st Edition