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Japan's Modern Myths
Carol Gluck
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Description for Japan's Modern Myths
Paperback. Series: Studies of the East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 424 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 32. Weight in Grams: 626.
Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the talk and thought of the late Meiji period, Professor ... Read more
Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the talk and thought of the late Meiji period, Professor ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Series
Studies of the East Asian Institute
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691008127
SKU
V9780691008127
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Reviews for Japan's Modern Myths
"The narration and analysis of every page of the work reflect the author's brimming talent and make for extremely interesting reading... This book ... will become a lasting milestone in the study of the intellectual history of modern Japan."
Japan Quarterly "[O]ne of the foremost works of American scholarship on Japan."
Sidney D. Brown, Monumenta Nipponka
Japan Quarterly "[O]ne of the foremost works of American scholarship on Japan."
Sidney D. Brown, Monumenta Nipponka