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Zusatztext "Beyond the Metropolis offers the most thought-provoking and consequential treatment of Japanese urbanism in well over a decade." Informationen zum Autor Louise Young is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (UC Press, 1998). Klappentext "[Young] lays bare the urban-centrism of the modern age-the idea that the Japan's destiny would be determined by the health of its cities-and shows it to be a co-production of citizens in second cities and the metropolitan core. Along the way she enriches our understanding of social class as well as regionalism. The ideas and practices of the city introduced in this book continue to define Japan to this day."-Andrew Gordon! Harvard University "...An excellent! original [book] based on extensive research in Japanese primary and secondary sources. Young issues a powerful corrective to mainstream scholarship! which has long offered a narrative of nationwide modern developments in Japan based on the centralizing impulses of Tokyo-based culture and the bureaucratic state located in Tokyo... I strongly recommend [this book]."-Sheldon Garon! author of Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life "[A] fascinating and wide-ranging study. . . . An enlightening message."--Alexander Jacoby"The Times Literary Supplement" (07/05/2013) Zusammenfassung In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. This title looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute "the city" took their characteristic modern shape. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Part One. Contexts Introduction: Urbanism and Japanese Modern 1. World War One and the City Idea Part Two. Geo-Power and Urban-Centrism 2. The Ideology of the Metropolis 3. Colonizing the Country Part Three. Modern Times and the City Idea 4. The Past in the Present 5. The Cult of the New Epilogue: Urbanism and Twentieth-Century Japan Notes Bibliography Index ...
