National Pasts in Europe and East Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415561136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 358 str.

Peter W. Preston

Opis

This text compares national pasts as well as the current processes of change taking place in Europe and East Asia, including the dynamics of the European Union in Europe and the re-emergence of the historical centre of China in East Asia.

Recenzje

"Political sociologist Preston (Univ. of Birmingham, UK) critically examines the classical and contemporary economic, social, and political conditions in two historical sites of change and continuity: Europe and East Asia. His central thesis addresses national pasts as the key to understanding the intertwined histories of the two regions. Preston offers unique insights into the continuing integration of the two regions... [this book] is essential [for] all academic collections in world history and politics, Asian studies, and comparative politics." - T. Niazi, University of Wisconsin

Spis treści

1. National Pasts in Europe and East Asia  2. The Scale and Pace of Change Recalled  3. Available Lessons: Private Memories and Wider European Agendas  4. Europe: General Crisis, Collapse and Recovery  5. Uncomfortable Lessons: The European Union and the USA, 1989/91-2008  6. Reading the Ongoing Changes: European Identity  7. Sweeping Change in East Asia: Political Leaders and the Experience of Violence  8. East Asia: General Crisis, Collapse and National Development  9. Contested Compromises: National Pasts in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Bangkok  10. Japan/China: National Pasts and the Reordering of East Asia  11. Europe and East Asia: Intermingled Pasts and Changing Identities  12. Afterword: War is Failure

O autorze

P. W. Preston is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK. His most recent publication is Singapore in the Global System: Relationship, Structure and Change (Routledge, 2007).