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Science for the Empire : Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan /

This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the advancement of science and technology? Using what...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mizuno, Hiromi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • chapter 1. Toward Technocracy
  • chapter 2. Technocracy for a Scientific Japan
  • chapter 3. Incomplete Modernity and the Problem of Japanese Science
  • chapter 4. Mapping Marxism onto the Politics of the Scientific
  • chapter 5. Constructing the Japanese Scientific Tradition
  • chapter 6. The Mobilization of Wonder
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index