LEADER 04012nam 22006854a 450 001 9910455617503321 005 20211028002540.0 010 $a1-282-35638-0 010 $a0-520-92684-6 010 $a9786612356384 010 $a1-59734-854-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520926844 035 $a(CKB)111087027177580 035 $a(EBL)223507 035 $a(OCoLC)475928225 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000233975 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218062 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233975 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10236861 035 $a(PQKB)10053542 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055959 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223507 035 $a(OCoLC)52998995 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30773 035 $a(DE-B1597)521004 035 $a(OCoLC)1058998226 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520926844 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223507 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10051179 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235638 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027177580 100 $a20010904d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReconfiguring modernity$b[electronic resource] $econcepts of nature in Japanese political ideology /$fJulia Adeney Thomas 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aTwentieth-century Japan ;$v12 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-22854-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tNote on Transliteration --$t1. Introduction: The Trouble with Nature --$t2. The Topographical Imagination of Tokugawa Politics --$t3. Early Meiji's Contentious Natures --$t4. Kat? Hiroyuki: Turning Nature into Time --$t5. Baba Tatsui: Natural Laws and Willful Natures --$t6. Ueki Emori: Singing the Body Electric --$t7. The Acculturation of Japanese Nature --$t8. Ultranational Nature: Dead Time and Dead Space --$t9. Conclusion: Natural Freedom --$tIndex 330 $aJulia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature's political authority were central during Japan's transformation from a semi feudal world to an industrializing colonial empire. In political documents from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century, nature was redefined, moving from the universal, spatial concept of the Tokugawa period, through temporal, social Darwinian ideas of inevitable progress and competitive struggle, to a celebration of Japan as a nation uniquely in harmony with nature. The so-called traditional "Japanese love of nature" masks modern state power. Thomas's theoretically sophisticated study rejects the supposition that modernity is the ideological antithesis of nature, overcoming the determinism of the physical environment through technology and liberating denatured subjects from the chains of biology and tradition. In making "nature" available as a critical term for political analysis, this book yields new insights into prewar Japan's failure to achieve liberal democracy, as well as an alternative means of understanding modernity and the position of non-Western nations within it. 410 0$aTwentieth-century Japan ;$v12. 606 $aNature$xEffect of human beings on$zJapan 607 $aJapan$xPolitics and government$y1868-1912 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNature$xEffect of human beings on 676 $a304.2/0952 700 $aThomas$b Julia Adeney$f1958-$01056049 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455617503321 996 $aReconfiguring modernity$92490093 997 $aUNINA LEADER 02945oam 2200649I 450 001 9910790229703321 005 20230126211025.0 010 $a1-136-84119-9 010 $a1-280-68745-2 010 $a1-136-84120-2 010 $a9786613664396 010 $a0-203-83314-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203833148 035 $a(CKB)2670000000203679 035 $a(EBL)801909 035 $a(OCoLC)804664099 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000696369 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11415336 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000696369 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10682563 035 $a(PQKB)10084604 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC801909 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL801909 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10570423 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL366439 035 $a(OCoLC)802050433 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000203679 100 $a20180706e20111910 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPersia and its people /$fElla C. Sykes 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (403 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge library editions. 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