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Overcome by modernity : history, culture, and community in interwar Japan /

In the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to rival many long-standing Western industrial societies. How the Japanese made sense of the sudden transformation and the subsequent rise of mass...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harootunian, Harry D., 1929- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The fantasy of modern life
  • Overcoming modernity
  • Perceiving the present
  • The persistence of cultural memory
  • The communal body
  • History's actuality.