National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States

Christopher Hill

Published by Duke University Press 2008

National History and the World of Nations

Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States

Christopher Hill
Edited by: Rey Chow , Harry Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi

In the series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822389156

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About this book

A comparative and interdisciplinary study of representations of national history in Japan, France, and the Unites Stated from 1870-1900.

Author / Editor information

Christopher L. Hill is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at Yale University.

Reviews

“National History and the World of Nations is an important book. I know few in globalization studies who have managed to articulate so complex and clear a framework for the analysis of the possible global determinants of specific cultures’ narrative texts. This book will be read as much for its methodological interest as for its holdings about nationalism.”—Frederick Buell, author of National Culture and the New Global System

“National History and the World of Nations is one of the most exciting books I have read for some time.”—Patrice Higonnet, author of Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism

“National History and the World of Nations is one of the most exciting books I have read for some time.”—Patrice Higonnet, author of Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism

“This is a learned and sophisticated meditation on the ways in which comparable practices of national history writing emerged in three locations tied together by global capitalism and the formation of a worldwide system of nation-states. Christopher L. Hill demonstrates why we must reject national exceptionalisms even as he unveils the particularities of each of the nations he studies with rare insight and linguistic skill. This is an important study that should be read far beyond the parochial boundaries of area studies formations.”—Takashi Fujitani, author of Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan

“This is a learned and sophisticated meditation on the ways in which comparable practices of national history writing emerged in three locations tied together by global capitalism and the formation of a worldwide system of nation-states. Christopher L. Hill demonstrates why we must reject national exceptionalisms even as he unveils the particularities of each of the nations he studies with rare insight and linguistic skill. This is an important study that should be read far beyond the parochial boundaries of area studies formations.”—Takashi Fujitani, author of Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan

“This is a remarkably accomplished, broad-ranging, and provocative study that makes important claims about three of the key societies of modernity. It will energize an important theoretical and empirical debate about fundamental questions in a—still further—globalizing world.”—Richard Terdiman, author of Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1. National History and the Shape of the Nineteenth- Century World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Spaces of History
2. Liberal Social Imaginaries and the Interiority of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3. The Nationality of Expansion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
4. Decline, Renewal, and the Rhetoric of Will Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Part II . Times of Crisis
5. The Rupture of Meiji and the New Japan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
6. Americanization and Historical Consciousness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
7. French Revolution, Third Republic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Conclusion: National History and Other Worlds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 368

eBook

Published: January 16, 2009
ISBN: 9780822389156