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Making history matter : Kuroita Katsumi and the construction of Imperial Japan
- Title
- Making history matter : Kuroita Katsumi and the construction of Imperial Japan / Lisa Yoshikawa.
- Author
- Yoshikawa, Lisa
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xii, 367 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Explores the role history and historians played in imperial Japan's nation and empire building from the 1890s to the 1930s. As ideological architects of this process, leading historians wrote and rewrote narratives that justified the expanding realm. Yoshikawa argues that scholarship and politics were inseparable as Japan's historical profession developed"--
- Series Statement
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 402
- Uniform Title
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 402.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Harmonizing scholarship and public history -- Remembering a historian -- 1. Becoming a historian, 1874-96. A son of Ōmura -- The fifth higher school -- The mid-Meiji state of the field -- Student life at the Imperial University -- 2. Resuscitating the historical field, 1896-1908. Graduate life -- Expanding the historian's crafts -- Writing Japanese history -- 3. Entrenching the historical field, 1908-18. Touring Europe and America -- The Southern-Northern Court incident -- Rewriting Japanese history -- Historic site preservation -- 4. History in action, 1918-27. Commemorating historic figures -- Molding Korean history -- The historians and the earthquake -- Contesting over the past and the present -- 5. Historians' manifest destiny, 1927-36. Expanding Japan, expanding the Orient -- The field's heyday -- Founding research institutions -- Empire-wide historic celebrations -- Japan's manifest destiny -- Epilogue : a historian's death, a historian's bequest. The scholar's legacies -- The teacher's legacies -- History matters -- Appendix I. Kuroita Katsumi bibliography -- Appendix II. Periodization in the three editions of "Kokushi."
- Call Number
- JFE 17-3934
- ISBN
- 9780674975170
- 0674975170
- LCCN
- 2016028798
- OCLC
- 953792531
- Author
- Yoshikawa, Lisa, author.
- Title
- Making history matter : Kuroita Katsumi and the construction of Imperial Japan / Lisa Yoshikawa.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 402Harvard East Asian monographs ; 402.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-3934