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OVERCOME BY MODERNITY
HISTORY, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY IN INTERWAR JAPAN |
| By: |
H.D. Harootunian |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£39.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691006504 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691006505 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 September, 2000 |
| Pages: |
480 |
| Description: |
In the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing with great speed. This text locates Japan's experience of modernity within a larger global process marked by both modernism and fascism. |
| Synopsis: |
In the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to rival many long-standing Western industrial societies. Harry Harootunian explores how the Japanese made sense of this sudden transformation and the subsequent rise of mass culture. He examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical culture from its fixed values and substituted a culture based on fantasy and desire. Harootunian not only explains why the Japanese valued philosophical understandings of these events, often over sociological or empirical explanations, but also locates Japan's experience of modernity within a larger global process marked by both modernism and fascism. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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