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Machiavelli's Children : Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan /

Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and historical choices, Richard J. Samuels emphasi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Samuels, Richard J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: LEADERS MATTER
  • Introduction: WHY LEADERS MATTER
  • PART I. CREATION STORIES: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • PART ll. LIBERAL EXHAUSTION: THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
  • PART III. IN THE AMERICAN IMPERIUM: THE COLD WAR
  • PART IV. DEGREES OF FREEDOM: AFTER THE COLD WAR
  • Conclusion: How LEADERS HAVE MATTERED IN ITALY AND JAPAN
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.