National pasts in Europe and East Asia / / P.W. Preston

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825350703321
• Autore: Preston P. W (Peter Wallace), <1949-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-95945-9; 1-283-52010-9; 9786613832559; 0-203-85002-5; 1-136-95946-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; ; 66
• Disciplina: 940
• Soggetti: 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-345) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; National Pasts in Europeand East Asia; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 National pasts in Europe and East Asia; 2 The scale and pace of change recalled; 3 Available lessons: private memories and wider European agendas; 4 Europe: general crisis, collapse and recovery; 5 Uncomfortable lessons: the European Union and the USA, 1989/91-2008; 6 Reading the ongoing changes: European identity; 7 Sweeping change in East Asia: political leaders and the experience of violence; 8 East Asia: general crisis, collapse and national development; 9 Contested compromises: national pasts in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Bangkok10 Japan and China: national pasts and the reordering of East Asia; 11 Europe and East Asia: intermingled pasts and changing identities; 12 Afterword: war is failure; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: With the rise of industrial capitalism in Europe and the related imposition of colonial rule in much of East Asia, both Europe and East Asia have intertwined histories that continue to shape their political thinking and political decision making. The contemporary interactions of the two regions - now once again major trading partners - will both depend upon and facilitate deeper understandings of their respective sets of national pasts. This book compares national pasts as well as the current processes of change taking place in Europe and East Asia, including the dynamics of the European Un