National History and the World of Nations - Capital, State, Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, United States

A comparative and interdisciplinary study of representations of national history in Japan, France, and the Unites Stated from 1870-1900.

List of contents

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

About the author

Christopher L. Hill

Summary

Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, this work reveals how the writing of national history in the nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. shows that the representations of national history reflected rhetorical and narrative strategies shared across the globe.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Hill, Christopher L. Hill, Christopher Laing Hill
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2009
• EAN: 9780822342984
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4298-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous