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



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Autore: Preston P. W (Peter Wallace), <1949-, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: National pasts in Europe and East Asia / / P.W. Preston Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
Disciplina: 940
Soggetto topico: Nationalism - Europe
Nationalism - East Asia
Collective memory - Europe
Collective memory - East Asia
Social change - Europe
Social change - East Asia
Soggetto geografico: Europe Relations East Asia
East Asia Relations Europe
Europe Politics and government
East Asia Politics and government
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
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ISBN: 1-136-95945-9
1-283-52010-9
9786613832559
0-203-85002-5
1-136-95946-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825350703321
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Serie: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia