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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2011.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Summary: | 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 culture is the focus of Harry Harootunian's fascinating inquiry into the problems of modernity. Here he examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical cultur. |
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Item Description: | Title from PDF title page (viewed Apr. 16, 2012). |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (480 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781400823864 |