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UNINA9910780378703321 |
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Thomas Julia Adeney <1958-> |
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Reconfiguring modernity [[electronic resource] ] : concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology / / Julia Adeney Thomas |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2002 |
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1-282-35638-0 |
0-520-92684-6 |
9786612356384 |
1-59734-854-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Twentieth-century Japan ; ; 12 |
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Nature - Effect of human beings on - Japan |
Japan Politics and government 1868-1912 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- 1. Introduction: The Trouble with Nature -- 2. The Topographical Imagination of Tokugawa Politics -- 3. Early Meiji's Contentious Natures -- 4. KatÅ Hiroyuki: Turning Nature into Time -- 5. Baba Tatsui: Natural Laws and Willful Natures -- 6. Ueki Emori: Singing the Body Electric -- 7. The Acculturation of Japanese Nature -- 8. Ultranational Nature: Dead Time and Dead Space -- 9. Conclusion: Natural Freedom -- Index |
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Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature's political authority were central during Japan's transformation from a semi feudal world to an industrializing colonial empire. In political documents from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century, nature was redefined, moving from the universal, spatial concept of the Tokugawa period, through temporal, social Darwinian ideas of inevitable progress and competitive struggle, to a celebration of Japan as a nation uniquely in harmony with |
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nature. The so-called traditional "Japanese love of nature" masks modern state power. Thomas's theoretically sophisticated study rejects the supposition that modernity is the ideological antithesis of nature, overcoming the determinism of the physical environment through technology and liberating denatured subjects from the chains of biology and tradition. In making "nature" available as a critical term for political analysis, this book yields new insights into prewar Japan's failure to achieve liberal democracy, as well as an alternative means of understanding modernity and the position of non-Western nations within it. |
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UNINA9910789607403321 |
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A companion to life course studies : the social and historical context of the British birth cohort studies / / edited by Michael Wadsworth and John Bynner |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-134-00577-6 |
1-283-10201-3 |
9786613102010 |
1-134-00578-4 |
0-203-87858-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge advances in sociology ; ; 53 |
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BynnerJ. M |
WadsworthMichael E. J (Michael Edwin John) |
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Cohort analysis |
Social capital (Sociology) - Great Britain |
Families - Great Britain |
Social change |
Great Britain Economic policy |
Great Britain Social policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction / Michael Wadsworth and John Bynner -- Politics, citizenship, and social capital / Lindsay Paterson -- Family structure, family policy, and practice / Lynda Clarke and Ceridwen Roberts -- Education policy and practice / Gary McCulloch -- Economic policy and practice / Hugh Pemberton -- Labour market, employment, and skills / David Ashton and John Bynner -- Health policy and practice / Michael Wadsworth -- Leisure, stability, and change / Ken Roberts -- Changing Britain, changing generations / John Bynner and Michael Wadsworth. |
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Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific, and technological change. Opportunities for education, employment, human relations, and good health, have all been greatly affected by those changes, as have all aspects of life. Consequently, each post-war generation has been like no other before or since.Britain, uniquely, has five large-scale life course studies that began at intervals throughout that period. They have shown how lives are shaped by individual characteristics, their past and current experien |
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