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Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 - Modern Library Chronicles

by Ian Buruma
Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 - Modern Library Chronicles - Thryft
Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 - Modern Library Chronicles - Thryft

Transformation of Japan, from isolation to powerhouse.

"Inventing Japan" offers an immersive journey through a pivotal period in Japan's history, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in understanding the rapid evolution of a nation. Ian Buruma presents a thoughtful analysis of Japan's metamorphosis from a closed feudal society to a modern power, and its impact on global dynamics. If you're fascinated by cultural shifts and the complexities of nationalism, this book will enrich your perspective on how history shapes a nation's identity.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 - Modern Library Chronicles

by Ian Buruma
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ISBN: 9780679640851
Authors: Ian Buruma
Publisher: Modern Library
Date of Publication: 2003-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Politics, History
Related Topics: History, Asia, Politics, World History
Goodreads rating: 3.68
(rated by 946 readers)

Description

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.From the Hardcover edition.
 

Transformation of Japan, from isolation to powerhouse.

"Inventing Japan" offers an immersive journey through a pivotal period in Japan's history, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in understanding the rapid evolution of a nation. Ian Buruma presents a thoughtful analysis of Japan's metamorphosis from a closed feudal society to a modern power, and its impact on global dynamics. If you're fascinated by cultural shifts and the complexities of nationalism, this book will enrich your perspective on how history shapes a nation's identity.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.