Science for the empire
Subtitle: scientific nationalism in modern Japan
By: Hiromi Mizuno.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780804759618
Subjects: Science and state -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Imperialism and science -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Nationalism and science -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Religion and science -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Japan -- Politics and government -- 1926-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Technocracy. Toward technocracy; title: Technocratic vision for a scientific empire; title: Marxism. Incomplete modernity and the problem of science; title: Mapping Marxism onto the politics of the scientific; title: Constructing the scientific Japanese tradition; title: Popular science. The mobilization of wonder.