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Language, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) [1 ed.]
9780520381728, 2020046901, 2020046902, 9780520381711

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Language, Nation, Race explores

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In world history, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ranks as a revolutionary watershed, on a par with the American and Frenc

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This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about langua

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This book examines Meiji Japan (1868–1912) to demonstrate the complex interplay between Japanese nation-building and the

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With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan

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Ericson shows that Matsukata Masayoshi was far from a rigid adherent of classical economic liberalism.

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Scholars of modern Japan agree that education played a crucial role in that country's rapid modernization during th

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Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan is a historical analysis of the discourses of nostalgia in late nineteenth- and early t

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Patricia Wetzel offers in this volume a comprehensive examination of a frequently discussed yet much misunderstood aspec

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