Inventing Japan Inventing Japan
Modern Library Chronicles

Inventing Japan

1853-1964

    • $ 34.900,00
    • $ 34.900,00

Descripción editorial

In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin, eventually emerging under American tutelage as a pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo.

What explains the seismic changes that thrust this small island nation so violently onto the world stage? In part, Ian Buruma argues, the story is one of a newly united nation that felt it must play catch-up to the established Western powers, just as Germany and Italy did, a process that involved, in addition to outward colonial expansion, internal cultural consolidation and the manufacturing of a shared heritage. But Japan has always been both particularly open to the importation of good ideas and particularly prickly about keeping their influence quarantined, a bipolar disorder that would have dramatic consequences and that continues to this day. If one book is to be read in order to understand why the Japanese seem so impossibly strange to many Americans, Inventing Japan is surely it.

GÉNERO
Historia
PUBLICADO
2003
4 de febrero
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
208
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Random House Publishing Group
VENTAS
Penguin Random House LLC
TAMAÑO
2.1
MB

Más libros de Ian Buruma

Asesinato en Amsterdam Asesinato en Amsterdam
2011
Murder in Amsterdam Murder in Amsterdam
2006
Year Zero Year Zero
2013
Bad Elements Bad Elements
2015
A Tokyo Romance A Tokyo Romance
2018
The China Lover The China Lover
2014

Otros clientes también compraron

Midnight in Chernobyl Midnight in Chernobyl
2019
The Great Influenza The Great Influenza
2004
The Bomber Mafia The Bomber Mafia
2021
The Wager The Wager
2023
Talking to Strangers Talking to Strangers
2019

Otros libros de esta serie

A Short History of Medicine A Short History of Medicine
2007
Uncivil Society Uncivil Society
2009
Infinite Ascent Infinite Ascent
2005
Hitler and the Holocaust Hitler and the Holocaust
2001
Nonviolence Nonviolence
2006
The Company The Company
2003