Making history matter: Kuroita Katsumi and the construction of Imperial Japan

"Explores the role history and historians played in imperial Japan's nation and empire building from the 1890s to the 1930s. As ideological architects of this process, leading historians wrote and rewrote narratives that justified the expanding realm. Yoshikawa argues that scholarship and...

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Main Author: Yoshikawa, Lisa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London Harvard University Asia Center 2017
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs 402
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"Explores the role history and historians played in imperial Japan's nation and empire building from the 1890s to the 1930s. As ideological architects of this process, leading historians wrote and rewrote narratives that justified the expanding realm. Yoshikawa argues that scholarship and politics were inseparable as Japan's historical profession developed"...
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xii, 367 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780674975170

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