National history and the world of nations
Subtitle: capital, state, and the rhetoric of history in Japan, France, and the United States
By: Christopher L. Hill.
Series: Asia-Pacific
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780822342984; 9780822343165
Subjects: Nationalism and historiography -- Japan; Nationalism and historiography -- France; Nationalism and historiography -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: National history and the shape of the nineteenth-century world; title: Spaces of history; title: Liberal social imaginaries and the interiority of history; title: The nationality of expansion; title: Decline, renewal, and the rhetoric of will; title: Times of crisis; title: The rupture of Meiji and the new Japan; title: Americanization and historical consciousness; title: French Revolution, Third Republic; title: National history and other worlds.