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Hiromi Mizuno - Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan - 9780804776561 - V9780804776561
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Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan

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Description for Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan Paperback. An innovative look at Japan's wartime discourse of science and nationalism and how it shaped postwar Japan. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.

This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the advancement of science and technology? Using what logic did wartime Japanese embrace both the rationality that denied and the nationalism that promoted this mythology?

Focusing on three groups of science promoters—technocrats, Marxists, and popular science proponents—this work demonstrates how each group made sense of apparent contradictions by articulating its politics through different definitions of science and visions of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804776561
SKU
V9780804776561
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99-50

About Hiromi Mizuno
Hiromi Mizuno is Associate Professor of History at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Reviews for Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
"[Mizuno's] work presents numerous opportunities to begin transnational inquiry, especially given the enormous soft power of the postwar Japanese state in northeast and southeast Asia . . . If Science for the Empire concisely and incisively challenges an older portrait of Japan, it offers similar questions to scholars of the nation's regional neighbors and partners."—John DiMoia, Journal of Northeast Asia ... Read more

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