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Machiavelli's Children
Richard J. Samuels
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Description for Machiavelli's Children
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 24. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 682.
Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and historical choices, Richard J. Samuels emphasizes the role of human ingenuity in political change. He draws on interviews and archival research in a fascinating series of paired biographies of political and business leaders from Italy and Japan.
Beginning with the founding of modern nation-states after the Meiji Restoration and the Risorgimento, Samuels traces the developmental dynamic in both countries through the failure of early ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801489822
SKU
V9780801489822
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About Richard J. Samuels
Samuels is Ford International Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the MIT-Japan Program. He is also the author of "Rich Nation, Strong Army" and The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective, both from Cornell, and winner of the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. ... Read more
Reviews for Machiavelli's Children
An extraordinary and, in large part, successful, book. Machiavelli's Children.... compares and contrasts Italian and Japanese political and economic history from the mid-nineteenth century until the present. It explores the nature and meaning of leadership. And, less wittingly, it expresses American dreams and nightmares in the early twenty-first century.
Journal of Japanese Studies
Samuels offers excellent comparative analysis ... Read more
Journal of Japanese Studies
Samuels offers excellent comparative analysis ... Read more