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Moral nation : modern Japan and narcotics in global history / / Miriam Kingsberg



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Autore: Kingsberg Miriam <1981-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Moral nation : modern Japan and narcotics in global history / / Miriam Kingsberg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013]
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 362.29/30952
Soggetto topico: Drug abuse - Social aspects - Japan - History
Drug traffic - Japan - History
Soggetto geografico: Japan Civilization 1868-
Japan Moral conditions
Soggetto non controllato: 19th century japanese history
20th century japanese history
addiction
asia
asian power
asian studies
bureaucrats
civic
civilization
crusades against opium
doctors
drug use
empire
global history
history of narcotics
international relations
interwar period
japan
japanese history
law enforcement
local studies global themes series
medical
medicine
modern history
modern japan
moral obligation
narcotics
nation building
opium
political activity
political
scientists
self rule
sovereignty
world history
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Moral crusade in Meiji Japan -- Drug users in the epicenter of consumption -- Cultural producers and the Japanese empire -- Cultural producers and Manchukuo -- Merchants -- Law enforcement -- Laboratory scientists -- Medical doctors -- Moral panic in postwar Japan.
Sommario/riassunto: This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Japan underwent three distinct crises of sovereignty in its modern history: in the 1890's, during the interwar period, and in the 1950's. Each crisis provoked successively escalating crusades against opium and other drugs, in which moral entrepreneurs--bureaucrats, cultural producers, merchants, law enforcement, scientists, and doctors, among others--focused on drug use as a means of distinguishing between populations fit and unfit for self-rule. Moral Nation traces the instrumental role of ideologies about narcotics in the country's efforts to reestablish its legitimacy as a nation and empire. As Kingsberg demonstrates, Japan's growing status as an Asian power and a "moral nation" expanded the notion of "civilization" from an exclusively Western value to a universal one. Scholars and students of Japanese history, Asian studies, world history, and global studies will gain an in-depth understanding of how Japan's experience with narcotics influenced global standards for sovereignty and shifted the aim of nation building, making it no longer a strictly political activity but also a moral obligation to society.
Titolo autorizzato: Moral nation  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95748-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790763203321
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