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Melbourne.
Trans Pacific Press.
2002.
234pp, notes, index, paperback. "This collection of essays links questions of social theory and comparative history to analyses of the Japanese experience. A survey of the East Asian region, its historical transformations and Japan's changing position within it provides a background to further discussion. The specific features of Japanese civilization are related to the broader East Asian and China-centred setting, but they can also be compared to civilizational patterns in other regions. Long-term processes of state formation are central to the historical dynamics of civilizations: contrasts and parallels between the trajectories of state formation in Japan and Europe are analyzed at some length. The regional, historical and civilizational contexts shaped the course of Japanese modernization, and a closer examination of this record helps to locate Japan within the unfolding debate on 'multiple modernities'. The last essay deal with the Japanese version of capitalist development and suggests ways of comparing it with other cases." (When referring to this item please quote stockid 56387)
ISBN: 9781876843076
Related Subject Areas:
Civilisation
Civilization
East Asia
Essays
History
Japan
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