Making History Matter : : Kuroita Katsumi and the Construction of Imperial Japan /

Making History Matter : : Kuroita Katsumi and the Construction of Imperial Japan / / Lisa Yoshikawa.

"Explores the role history and historians played in imperial Japan's nation and empire building from the 1890s to the 1930s. As ideological architects of this process, leading historians wrote and rewrote narratives that justified the expanding realm. Yoshikawa argues that scholarship and...

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Superior document:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 402
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Yoshikawa, Lisa,
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2017.
Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 402.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 367 pages )
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Table of Contents:
  • Harmonizing scholarship and public history
  • Remembering a historian
  • 1. Becoming a historian, 1874-96: A son of Omura
  • The fifth higher school
  • The mid-Meiji state of the field
  • Student life at the Imperial University
  • 2. Resuscitating the historical field, 1896-1908: Graduate life
  • Expanding the historian's crafts
  • Writing Japanese history
  • 3. Entrenching the historical field, 1908-18: Touring Europe and America
  • The Southern-Northern Court incident
  • Rewriting Japanese history
  • Historic site preservation
  • 4. History in action, 1918-27: Commemorating historic figures
  • Molding Korean history
  • The historians and the earthquake
  • Contesting over the past and the present
  • 5. Historians' manifest destiny, 1927-36: Expanding Japan, expanding the Orient
  • The field's heyday
  • Founding research institutions
  • Empire-wide historic celebrations
  • Japan's manifest destiny
  • Epilogue: A historian's death, a historian's bequest
  • The teacher's legacies
  • History matters.

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