National pasts in Europe and East Asia
By: P.W. Preston.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780415561136; 9780203850022
Subjects: Nationalism -- Europe; Nationalism -- East Asia; Collective memory -- Europe; Collective memory -- East Asia; Social change -- Europe; Social change -- East Asia; Europe -- Relations -- East Asia; East Asia -- Relations -- Europe; Europe -- Politics and government; East Asia -- Politics and government
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: National pasts in Europe and East Asia; title: The scale and pace of change recalled; title: Available lessons : private memories and wider European agendas; title: Europe : general crisis, collapse, and recovery; title: Uncomfortable lessons : the European Union and the USA, 1989/91-2008; title: Reading the ongoing changes : European identity; title: Sweeping change in East Asia : political leaders and the experience of violence; title: East Asia : general crisis, collapse, and national development; title: Contested compromises : national pasts in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Bangkok; title: Japan/China : national pasts and the reordering of East Asia; title: Europe and East Asia : intermingled pasts and changing identities; title: Afterword: War is failure.