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Zusatztext "Tierney has done a great service for those interested in modern world history. . . . Highly recommended." Informationen zum Autor Robert Thomas Tierney is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois! Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext "Tierney presents a novel examination of Kotoku Shusui! focusing on his critique of imperialism rather than his evolution toward anarchism. Providing the first English translation of Kotoku's seminal pamphlet! Tierney greatly deepens our understanding of oppositional attitudes in early twentieth-century Japan toward imperialism."-Andrew Barshay! author of The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions and The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia! 1945 -1956 "Tierney has given us not only a masterful translation and annotation of Kotoku's original Japanese text! but a reminder that imperialism! patriotism! and militarism remain alive as transmogrified monsters in our own new millennium."-Takashi Fujitani! Dr. David Chu Chair in Asia Pacific Studies! University of Toronto Zusammenfassung Examines the work of the radical journalist Kotoku Shusui and Japan's anti-imperialist movement of the early twentieth century. This book constitutes a major contribution to the intellectual history of modern Japan and to the comparative study of critiques of capitalism and colonialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction KOTOKU SHUSUI AND ANTI-IMPERIALIST THOUGHT In the Shadow of Revolution What Is Imperialism? What Causes Imperialism? JAPAN'S FIRST ANTI-IMPERIALIST MOVEMENT The Boxer Rebellion and the Band of Idealists Heiminism and the Russo-Japanese War The Asian Solidarity Association and the High Treason Case IMPERIALISM: MONSTER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BY KOTOKU SHUSUI Preface Three preliminary observations Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. On Patriotism Chapter 3. On Militarism Chapter 4. On Imperialism Conclusion Epilogue: The Monster of the Twenty-First Century? Notes Bibliography Index ...
