Postwar Japan As History

Name: Postwar Japan As History
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ISBN: 9780520074750

ISBN-10: 0520074750

ISBN-13: 9780520074750

Edition: 1994

Authors: Andrew Gordon

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Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe an ongoing historical process marked by unexpected changes, such as Japan's extraordinary economic growth, and unanticipated continuities, such as the endurance of conservative rule. A provocative set of interpretative essays by eminent scholars, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of twentieth-century Japan and the dilemmas facing Japan today.

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/20/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 563
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.848

Andrew Gordon is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.



Peace and Democracy in Two Systems: External Policy and Internal Conflict



Dower Japan's Position in the World System



The Past in the Present



Defining Growth: Debates on Economic Strategies



The Structure and Transformation of Conservative Rule



Negotiating Social Contracts



Dialectics of Economic Growth



Finding a Place in Metropolitan Japan: Transpositions of Everyday Life



Formations of Mass Culture



Consuming and Saving



The Death of "Good Wife



Unplaced Persons and Movements for Place



Altered States: The Body Politics of "Being Woman"



Contests for the Workplace



The Dynamics of Political Opposition