Dynamics of Change in East Asia: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Development

ISBN-13: 9780415424370 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 294 str.

Peter Preston

Opis

This book illuminates the historical development trajectory of East Asia. Embracing a cross-disciplinary perspective, it summarises the history of the region and goes on to focus upon the rise of East Asia since the ruins of the Pacific War.

Spis treści

Part One: Complex change and the logics of forms-of-life 1. Argument making in social science 2. Substantive theoretical traditions 3.  Livelihood investigated Part Two: The shift to the modern world in East Asia 4. Colonialism and modernity: the overall trajectory 5. Colonialism and modernity: disentangling the issues Part Three: Successor elites and the pursuit of national development  6. The dissolution of state-empires 7. The formation of successor elites 8. Power, authority and dissent 9. Development issues faced Part Four: East Asia in the changing global system 10. The region in overview 11. Globalization and the end of history Part Five: East Asia: success and its costs 12. Elite projects and post-colonial goals 13. States, masses and the idea of democracy 14. Collective memory and national pasts 15. Performance and problems