Ennobling Japan's Savage Northeast : Tōhoku as Japanese Postwar Thought, 1945-2011 /
"When Japan embarked on modernization, historical prejudice, contemporary politics, and economic calculation led to Tohoku's marginalization. After 1945, attempts were made to overcome this image and rehabilitate the Northeast as a source of new national values. This book unravels the cont...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Published by the Harvard University Asia Center,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "When Japan embarked on modernization, historical prejudice, contemporary politics, and economic calculation led to Tohoku's marginalization. After 1945, attempts were made to overcome this image and rehabilitate the Northeast as a source of new national values. This book unravels the contested postwar meanings of the region in national narratives"-- |
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| Notas: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D. --University of Pennsylvania, 2012). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (378 pages): illustrations, maps ; |
| ISBN: | 9781684175826 |


