Before the Nation
Subtitle: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Asia-Pacific)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780822331834
Subjects: Cultural studies; Nationalism; Politics / Current Events; Political History; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Japan; Asia - Japan; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Asian Studies; History, Asian; Kokugaku; History & Theory - General
First sentence: Miroslav Hroch, the pioneer social historian of European nation-formation, has argued that "for national consciousness to arise, there must be something for it to become conscious of."