| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 239 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Twentieth-century Japan ; 12
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Twentieth-century Japan ; 12.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The author turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- 1. Introduction: The Trouble with Nature -- Objections -- Justifications -- Outline of Natures Political History in Japan -- 2. The Topographical Imagination of Tokugawa Politics -- Mental Maps -- China as Imperial Center -- Japans Imperial Center -- Rural Centers -- Centers of Learning -- Divorce Proceedings: Space versus Time -- 3. Early Meijis Contentious Natures -- Natural Forms of Contention: Laws and Bodies -- The Historiography of Meiji Ideologies -- Natures Indeterminate Determinism -- 4. Kat Hiroyuki: Turning Nature into Time -- Kat Hiroyuki and Tenk -- Shinsei taii and Kokutai shinron -- Jinken shinsetsu -- The Reaction to Jinken shinsetsu -- 5. Baba Tatsui: Natural Laws and Willful Natures -- The Equilibrium of Forces in Nature and History -- The Death Wishes of Baba Tatsui and Herbert Spencer -- Tenpu jinkenron: The Reply to Kat -- Catalyzing Nature: The Role of Will in Babas Social Evolution -- 6. Ueki Emori: Singing the Body Electric -- The Basic Body of Tenpu jinkenben -- The Political Problems of Uekis Bodies -- A Dance of Loneliness -- 7. The Acculturation of Japanese Nature -- Social Evolutions Victory -- Social Evolutions Defeat: The Political Inadequacy of a Progressive Cosmopolis -- Nature as Japanese Culture: Bringing the Outside In -- The Last Vestiges of Social Darwinism -- 8. Ultranational Nature: Dead Time and Dead Space -- Shints National Nature -- Economizing Nature -- Educating the National Family -- World-Historical Nature -- 9. Conclusion: Natural Freedom -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Japan.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Japan. |
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Japan -- Politics and government -- 1868-1912.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1868-1912 |
| Indexed Term |
Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thomas, Julia Adeney, 1958- Reconfiguring modernity. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2001 0520228545 (DLC) 2001005374 (OCoLC)47916285 |
| ISBN |
9780520926844 (electronic book) |
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0520926846 (electronic book) |
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0585468575 (electronic book) |
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9780585468570 (electronic book) |
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1282356380 |
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9781282356382 |
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9780520228542 (Cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520228545 (Cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1597348546 |
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9781597348546 |
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0520228545 (Cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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