On the Persistence of the Japanese 'History Problem': Historicism and the International Politics of History

ISBN-13: 9781138089723 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Hitomi Koyama

Opis

The book offers an original treatment of Japan’s "history problem," contending that at the heart of the problem lie the vexed relation between history and agency in the context of the Far East, and in global politics more broadly.

Spis treści

Introduction Rethinking Persistence in Impatient Times: The International Politics of History in East Asia, Chapter 1 On the Recursivity of the Politics of History, Chapter 2 On the Rise and Demise of Civilizational History in Meiji Japan, Chapter 3 The Assertion: Japan as the Subject of World History, Chapter 4 On the Postwar Palimpsest Subject of History, Conclusion