Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan

Andrew Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 1
• Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation... Lees meer

The City as Subject

Jeffrey E Hanes

• Hardcover | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 13
• In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of so... Lees meer

The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920

Kären Wigen

• Hardcover | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 3
• Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the cha... Lees meer

Ordinary Economies in Japan

Tetsuo Najita

• Hardcover | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 18
• Tetsuo Najita explores a powerful theme in the economic thought and practice of ordinary citizens in late Tokugawa and early modern Japan. He examines... Lees meer

Reasonable Men, Powerful Words

Laura Hein

• Hardcover | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 16
• Reasonable Men, Powerful Words traces the development of political culture in twentieth-century Japan through a social and intellectual biography of s... Lees meer

Splendid Monarchy

Takashi Fujitani

• Paperback | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 6
• Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nat... Lees meer

Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan

Leslie Pincus

• Hardcover | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 5
• During the interwar years in Japan, discourse on culture turned sharply inward after generations of openness to Western ideas. The characterizations t... Lees meer

Perfectly Japanese

Merry White

• Paperback | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 14
• Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the pas... Lees meer

Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan

Helen Hardacre

• Paperback | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 7
• Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mi... Lees meer

Rediscovering America

• Paperback | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 19
• In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer thei... Lees meer

Lever of Empire

Mark Metzler

• Hardcover | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 17
• This book, the first full account of Japan's financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new... Lees meer

Rediscovering America

• Hardcover | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 19
• In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer thei... Lees meer

The Social Sciences in Modern Japan

Andrew E Barshay

• Paperback | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 15
• This incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the proc... Lees meer

Reconfiguring Modernity

Julia Adeney Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 12
• Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both J... Lees meer

The Abacus and the Sword

Peter Duus

• Paperback | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 4
• What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspe... Lees meer

Japan's Total Empire

Louise Young

• Paperback | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 8
• In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese ... Lees meer

Hiroshima Traces

Lisa Yoneyama

• Paperback | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 10
• Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn... Lees meer

Mirror of Modernity

• Paperback | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 9
• This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Bui... Lees meer

Complicit Fictions

James A Fujii

• Paperback | Engels | Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power | nr. 2
• In Complicit Fictions , James Fujii challenges traditional approaches to the study of Japanese narratives and Japanese culture in general. He employs ... Lees meer