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- Book Title
- Inventing Japan : 1853-1964
- Publication Name
- Inventing Japan
- Title
- Inventing Japan
- Subtitle
- 1853-1964
- Format
- Perfect
- ISBN-10
- 0812972864
- EAN
- 9780812972863
- ISBN
- 9780812972863
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Genre
- History
- Release Date
- 09/11/2004
- Release Year
- 2004
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 6 Oz
- Series
- Modern Library Chronicles
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Topic
- Asia / Japan, Military / General, Modern / 19th Century
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin, eventually emerging under American tutelage as a pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo. What explains the seismic changes that thrust this small island nation so violently onto the world stage? In part, Ian Buruma argues, the story is one of a newly united nation that felt it must play catch-up to the established Western powers, just as Germany and Italy did, a process that involved, in addition to outward colonial expansion, internal cultural consolidation and the manufacturing of a shared heritage. But Japan has always been both particularly open to the importation of good ideas and particularly prickly about keeping their influence quarantined, a bipolar disorder that would have dramatic consequences and that continues to this day. If one book is to be read in order to understand why the Japanese seem so impossibly strange to many Americans, Inventing Japan is surely it.
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Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812972864
ISBN-13
9780812972863
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Book Title
Inventing Japan : 1853-1964
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Asia / Japan, Military / General, Modern / 19th Century
Publication Year
2004
Genre
History
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
6 Oz
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11
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Ds881.9
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"Stylish and illuminating, Inventing Japan has the added virtue of being admirably concise. Students and general readers alike will find this grand overview of modern Japan's many identities engaging and provocative." - John W. Dower , author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II , winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize "In his characteristically penetrating manner, Ian Buruma delves into why modern Japan-for all its intellectual and artistic vitality-has not developed a more open, democratic, and cosmopolitan political order." - Sheldon Garon , professor of history and East Asian studies, Princeton University "Those familiar with Ian Buruma's impressive body of work on Japan will not be disappointed by Inventing Japan . This compelling narrative captures the excitement, triumph, and failure of the century in which Japan abandoned its traditional ways and entered into the modern world. Iconoclastic as always, Buruma offers fascinating insights into the nature of Japan's uneasy experiment with constitutional government, the impact of bureaucratic planning on economic growth, and the ties that closely bind the present with the past. Equally intriguing are his comparisons of Japan's development with those of China, Japan's ancient cultural mentor, and with Germany, its modern cultural mentor and another late-developing nation." - James L. McClain , professor of history, Brown University; author of Japan: A Modern History "A witty and illuminating romp through a hundred years of Japanese history, written with Mr. Buruma's usual style and insight. I cannot think of a wiser or clearer introduction to the subject for the general reader, and even the well informed will find something of interest." - Ronald Spector , professor of history and international relations, George Washington University; author of At War at Sea and Eagle Against the Sun From the Hardcover edition., "Stylish and illuminating, Inventing Japan has the added virtue of being admirably concise. Students and general readers alike will find this grand overview of modern Japan's many identities engaging and provocative." --John W. Dower, author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize "In his characteristically penetrating manner, Ian Buruma delves into why modern Japan--for all its intellectual and artistic vitality--has not developed a more open, democratic, and cosmopolitan political order." --Sheldon Garon, professor of history and East Asian studies, Princeton University "Those familiar with Ian Buruma's impressive body of work on Japan will not be disappointed by Inventing Japan. This compelling narrative captures the excitement, triumph, and failure of the century in which Japan abandoned its traditional ways and entered into the modern world. Iconoclastic as always, Buruma offers fascinating insights into the nature of Japan's uneasy experiment with constitutional government, the impact of bureaucratic planning on economic growth, and the ties that closely bind the present with the past. Equally intriguing are his comparisons of Japan's development with those of China, Japan's ancient cultural mentor, and with Germany, its modern cultural mentor and another late-developing nation." --James L. McClain, professor of history, Brown University; author of Japan: A Modern History "A witty and illuminating romp through a hundred years of Japanese history, written with Mr. Buruma's usual style and insight. I cannot think of a wiser or clearer introduction to the subject for the general reader, and eventhe well informed will find something of interest." --Ronald Spector, professor of history and international relations, George Washington University; author of At War at Sea and Eagle Against the Sun "From the Hardcover edition., "Stylish and illuminating, Inventing Japan has the added virtue of being admirably concise. Students and general readers alike will find this grand overview of modern Japan's many identities engaging and provocative." -John W. Dower, author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize "In his characteristically penetrating manner, Ian Buruma delves into why modern Japan-for all its intellectual and artistic vitality-has not developed a more open, democratic, and cosmopolitan political order." -Sheldon Garon, professor of history and East Asian studies, Princeton University "Those familiar with Ian Buruma's impressive body of work on Japan will not be disappointed by Inventing Japan. This compelling narrative captures the excitement, triumph, and failure of the century in which Japan abandoned its traditional ways and entered into the modern world. Iconoclastic as always, Buruma offers fascinating insights into the nature of Japan's uneasy experiment with constitutional government, the impact of bureaucratic planning on economic growth, and the ties that closely bind the present with the past. Equally intriguing are his comparisons of Japan's development with those of China, Japan's ancient cultural mentor, and with Germany, its modern cultural mentor and another late-developing nation." -James L. McClain, professor of history, Brown University; author of Japan: A Modern History "A witty and illuminating romp through a hundred years of Japanese history, written with Mr. Buruma's usual style and insight. I cannot think of a wiser or clearer introduction to the subject for the general reader, and even the well informed will find something of interest." -Ronald Spector, professor of history and international relations, George Washington University; author of At War at Sea and Eagle Against the Sun, "Stylish and illuminating,Inventing Japanhas the added virtue of being admirably concise. Students and general readers alike will find this grand overview of modern Japan's many identities engaging and provocative." -John W. Dower, author ofEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize "In his characteristically penetrating manner, Ian Buruma delves into why modern Japan-for all its intellectual and artistic vitality-has not developed a more open, democratic, and cosmopolitan political order." -Sheldon Garon, professor of history and East Asian studies, Princeton University "Those familiar with Ian Buruma's impressive body of work on Japan will not be disappointed byInventing Japan. This compelling narrative captures the excitement, triumph, and failure of the century in which Japan abandoned its traditional ways and entered into the modern world. Iconoclastic as always, Buruma offers fascinating insights into the nature of Japan's uneasy experiment with constitutional government, the impact of bureaucratic planning on economic growth, and the ties that closely bind the present with the past. Equally intriguing are his comparisons of Japan's development with those of China, Japan's ancient cultural mentor, and with Germany, its modern cultural mentor and another late-developing nation." -James L. McClain, professor of history, Brown University; author ofJapan: A Modern History "A witty and illuminating romp through a hundred years of Japanese history, written with Mr. Buruma's usual style and insight. I cannot think of a wiser or clearer introduction to the subject for the general reader, and even the well informed will find something of interest." -Ronald Spector, professor of history and international relations, George Washington University; author ofAt War at SeaandEagle Against the Sun From the Hardcover edition.
Table of Content
I. ECONOMICS AND URBAN AREAS. 1. Introduction to Urban Economics. 2. Schools of Thought in Urban Economics. 3. Location Decisions, Agglomeration Economies, and the Origins of Cities. 4. Economic Functions of Cities. II. LOCATION PATTERNS IN URBAN AREAS. 5. Introduction to Urban Location Patterns: Static Analysis. 6. Model of a Monocentric Urban Area. 7. Urban Employment Centers. 8. Urban Transportation. 9. Housing in Urban Areas. 10. The Public Sector in Urban Areas. III. ECONOMIC GROWTH OF URBAN AREAS. 11. Models of Metropolitan Economic Growth. 12. Agglomeration Economies, Technical Change, and Urban Growth. 13. Labor, Capital, and Urban Growth. 14. Economic Development Policies for Urban Areas. IV. THE CHANGING URBAN ECONOMY. 15. Urban Growth and Changing Location Patterns. 16. Urban Dimensions of Economic and Social Problems. Appendix: Review of Some Mathematics and Microeconomic Theory. Solutions to Selected Exercises.
Copyright Date
2004
Dewey Decimal
952.03
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Modern Library Chronicles Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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