Japan's total empire : Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism /
In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers ""met...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c1998.
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Colección: | Twentieth-century Japan ;
8. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers ""metropolitan effects"" of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo. Contrary to the conventional assumption that a few army officers and bureaucrats were responsible for Japan's overseas expansion, Young finds that a variety of organizations helped to mobiliz. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 487 p.) |
Premios: | American Historical Association John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History, 1998. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-456) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520923157 0520923154 0585329826 9780585329826 9786613382177 6613382175 1283382172 9781283382175 |