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Informationen zum Autor Christopher L. Hill is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at Yale University. Klappentext ""National History and the World of Nations" is an important book. I know few in globalization studies who have managed to articulate so complex and clear a framework for the analysis of the possible global determinants of specific cultures' narrative texts. This book will be read as much for its methodological interest as for its holdings about nationalism."--Frederick Buell, author of "National Culture and the New Global System" Zusammenfassung Focusing on Japan! France! and the United States! this work reveals how the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. It also analyzes the rhetoric! narrative form! and intellectual genealogy of late-nineteenth-century texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xv 1. National History and the Shape of the Nineteenth-Century World 1 Part I. Spaces of History 2. Liberal Social Imaginaries and the Interiority of History 47 3. The Nationality of Expansion 82 4. Decline, Renewal, and the Rhetoric of Will 119 Part II. Times of Crisis 5. The Rupture of Meiji and the New Japan 155 6. Americanization and Historical Consciousness 194 7. French Revolution, Third Republic 233 Conclusion: National History and Other Worlds 269 Notes 283 Bibliography 309 Index 329
