City As Subject - Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey E. Hanes is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon. Klappentext "A superbly researched and elegantly written study of Seki Hajime and the 'livable city' in Osaka that he envisioned! The City as Subject opens up a fascinating world of the conjunctures among commercial policy! economic thought! social reform! and urban planning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." -Takashi Fujitani! author of Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan "Deftly researched! this intellectual biography depicts Seki Hajime! a remarkable and influential early 20th-century figure who pursued careers in academe! policy making! and as interwar Mayor of Osaka. Hanes presents Hajime as an appealing! cosmopolitan! and iconoclastic character! noting particularly Seki's sense of social responsibility! his pragmatism! his ability to keep in mind the human scale in urban planning! and! by no means least! his aesthetic appreciation of Osaka's urban pleasures."-Laura Hein! coeditor of Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan! Germany! and the United States Zusammenfassung In exploring the career of Seki Hajime, who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, this text traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan, permitting us to reconceive it as a truly transnational movement whose impact was felt across the Pacific and Atlantic. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Seki Hajime and Social Progressivism in Prewar Japan 1. A Portrait of the Economist as a Young Man 2. The People's National Economy 3. Class and Nation 4. Toward a Modern Moral Economy 5. A New Urbanism 6. The Livable City Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey E. Hanes, Hanes Jeffrey E.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2002
• EAN: 9780520228498
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22849-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power S.; Twentieth-Century Japan: The E; Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power; Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power; Twentieth Century Japan: The E
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology