A Global History of Modern Japan
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN:
- 9781009759793
- 9780521196291
- 9780521169837
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 00kg, 250 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 00kg, 250 Pages
- Subjects:
- East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Global History
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- East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Global History
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Book description
In this innovative and timely history, Frederick Dickinson reenvisions the modern world through the prism of Japan, reexamining well-worn assumptions of familiar global processes. If viewed through the lens of modern Japan, such typical signposts of transition as Reformation, Renaissance, Revolution, and Reconstruction shift from normative categories to reconsiderations of the human experience. Nineteenth-century industrialization, modernization, and empire-building mark not a “rise of the West” but the dawn of a global age. The “American Century” is best understood not as a triumph of democracy but as an era of profound global economic, political, geopolitical, and cultural transformation. This new, integrative model for national history writing replaces narratives of exceptionalism with the intellectual foundations for global citizenship.
Reviews
‘While decentering the West, Dickinson challenges conventional storytelling in global history and offers an alternative way to envision modern Japanese history. His accessible narrative rescues Japan from national exceptionalism, an overemphasis on its connections to America and Europe, and prevailing views that have rendered the country as an aberrative other.'
Eiichiro Azuma - University of Pennsylvania
‘An impressively knowledgeable but accessibly written account that puts to rest any residual concept of Japanese exceptionalism and moves beyond the study of connections and comparisons to show how Japan in many ways foreshadowed, shaped and reflected the experiences of other nations and the course of global history.'
Janet Hunter - London School of Economics and Political Science
‘An excellent history of modern Japan that dynamically and accurately conveys the country's unique place within its global frame. A well-written, compelling read. Highly recommended.'
Sabine Frühstück - University of California at Santa Barbara
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