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Zusatztext "The remarkable history of twelve generations of a single Japanese family." Informationen zum Autor Gail Lee Bernstein is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community (1996)! editor of Recreating Japanese Women (California! 1991)! and coeditor of Public Spheres! Private Lives (2005) and Japan and the World: Essays on Japanese History and Politics (1988). Klappentext "There simply is no other book like this. No other family history presents such a range of insights into the ways in which individuals! women as well as men! have had to cope with changes wrought by the social modernization of Japanese family culture."-James L. McClain! author of Japan: A Modern History " Isami's House is the chronicle of a remarkable family! neither aristocratic nor famous! whose rise and decline seem to parallel Japan's. It makes absorbing reading! affording a panoramic view of a rural family's rise to local prominence at the dawn of the modern Japanese nation state! the expansion of its presence to Tokyo and then the empire! its experience in war and defeat! and finally its postwar reconfiguration as a dispersed urban family."-Norma Field! author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: A Portrait of Japan at Century's End Zusammenfassung Recreates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family through fourteen generations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Prologue: History Revealed Acknowledgments Reader's Guide Introduction: An Agrarian Childhood Part One: Ancestors and Descendants 1 The House Isami Built 2 Kissing Cousins 3 Father of the Village 4 Strong Wives Part Two: Going Out Into the World 5 Urban Studies 6 The Marriage Pipeline 7 Frugality and Fancy Schemes Part Three: Empire! War! and Defeat 8 Outposts of Modernity 9 Isami's Children in Harm's Way 10 Hard Times on the Home Front 11 Surviving Hiroshima 12 Missed Fortunes 13 Making History Part Four: Love and Other Forms of Compensation 14 Absent Husband 15 Couples and Uncouplings 16 Mothering Epilogue: Kinwork Notes Credits Index ...
