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Aaron Stephen Moore - Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 - 9780804785396 - V9780804785396
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Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945

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Description for Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 Hardback. Through an analysis of public discourse, national policies, and large-scale infrastructure projects, this book examines how Japanese intellectuals, bureaucrats, and engineers created a "technological imaginary" during the wartime era (1931-1945) to mobilize people for war and empire. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.

The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut-and-dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy from 1931–1945. Challenging the status quo, Constructing East Asia examines how Japanese intellectuals, bureaucrats, and engineers used technology as a system of power and mobilization—what historian Aaron Moore terms a "technological imaginary"—to rally people in Japan and its expanding empire. By analyzing how these different actors defined technology in public discourse, national policies, and large-scale infrastructure projects, Moore reveals wartime elites ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804785396
SKU
V9780804785396
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Aaron Stephen Moore
Aaron Stephen Moore is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University.

Reviews for Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945
"An expertly written and cogently argued study, singular in its skillful combining of intellectual, cultural, and politico-economic history. Moore breaks new ground in particular by showing how Japanese engineers in the 1930s and early forties strove to make 'concrete' expanded notions of technology through infrastructure projects on the continent."
Steven J. Ericson
Dartmouth College
"[I]nformative and illuminating ... Read more

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