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Release : 1997
Genre : Japan
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Download or read book Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945 written by . This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John S. Brownlee
Release : 1999
Genre : Japan
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Book Synopsis Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945 by : John S. Brownlee
Download or read book Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945 written by John S. Brownlee. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John S. Brownlee
Release : 2011-11-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945 by : John S. Brownlee
Download or read book Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945 written by John S. Brownlee. This book was released on 2011-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Japanese Historians and the National Myths, John Brownlee examines how Japanese historians between 1600 and 1945 interpreted the ancient myths of their origins. Ancient tales tell of Japan's creation in the Age of the Gods, and of Jinmu, a direct descendant of the Sun Goddess and first emperor of the imperial line. These founding myths went unchallenged until Confucian scholars in the Tokugawa period initiated a reassessment of the ancient history of Japan. These myths lay at the core of Japanese identity and provided legitimacy for the imperial state. Focusing on the theme of conflict and accommodation between scholars on one side and government and society on the other, Brownlee follows the historians' reactions to pressure and trends and their eventual understanding of history as a science in the service of the Japanese nation.
Author : Sven Saaler
Release : 2020-10-12
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Men in Metal by : Sven Saaler
Download or read book Men in Metal written by Sven Saaler. This book was released on 2020-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his pioneering study, Men in Metal, Sven Saaler examines Japanese public statuary as a central site of historical memory from its beginnings in the Meiji period through the twenty-first century. Saaler shows how the elites of the modern Japanese nation-state went about constructing an iconography of national heroes to serve their agenda of instilling national (and nationalist) thinking into the masses. Based on a wide range of hitherto untapped primary sources, Saaler combines data-driven quantitative analysis and in-depth case studies to identify the categories and historical figures that dominated public space. Men in Metal also explores the agents behind this visualized form of the politics of memory and introduces historiographical controversies surrounding statue-building in modern Japan.
Author : Georg G Iggers
Release : 2013-09-13
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Global History of Modern Historiography by : Georg G Iggers
Download or read book A Global History of Modern Historiography written by Georg G Iggers. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under the effect of professionalization, which served as a model not only for Western but also for much of non-Western historical studies. At the same time it critically examines the reactions in post-modern and post-colonial thought to established conceptions of scientific historiography. A main theme of the book is how historians in the non-Western world not only adopted or adapted Western ideas, but also explored different approaches rooted in their own cultures.
