Japan''s Modern Myths Ideology in the Late Meiji Period

Zusatztext "[O]ne of the foremost works of American scholarship on Japan." ---Sidney D. Brown, Monumenta Nipponka Informationen zum Autor Carol Gluck Klappentext Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind!" but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback! this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the talk and thought of the late Meiji period! Professor Gluck recreates the diversity of ideological discourse experienced by Japanese of the time. The result is a new interpretation of the views of politics and the nation in imperial Japan. Zusammenfassung Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback,

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Carol Gluck
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 21.04.1987
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia
• EAN: 9780691008127
• ISBN: 978-0-691-00812-7
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Serie: Studies of the East Asian Inst; Studies of the East Asian Institute
• Categorie: Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Asian History