Overcome by Modernity
Subtitle: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 26, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780691095486
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Cultural studies; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; History: World; History; History - General History; Japan; Asia - Japan; Asian and Asian American Studies; History / Japan; Postcolonial Studies
First sentence: ALTHOUGH the Meiji state put into place the infrastructure of a modern capitalist political economy, the economy itself did not grow at a constant speed between the years 1887 and 1920.